Amy Derogatis: 2 books
Saving Sex
Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
When it comes to evangelicals and sex, it seems, whatever the question, the answer is "no." In Saving Sex, Amy DeRogatis argues that this could not be further from the truth. Demolishing the myth of evangelicals as anti-sex, she shows that American evangelicals claim that fabulous sex--in the right...
Moral Geography
Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2003
Moral Geography traces the development of a moral basis for American expansionism, as Protestant missionaries, using biblical language and metaphors, imaginatively conjoined the cultivation of souls with the cultivation of land and made space sacred. While the political implications of the mapping...