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Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism 1st Edition

by Amy DeRogatis (Author)
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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (November 3, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199942250
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199942251
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 0.6 x 6.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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3.0 out of 5 starsSurveying evangelical writing on sex
By Paul Mastin TOP 1000 REVIEWER on November 3, 2014
Format: Hardcover
It's always interesting to read an outsider's perspective on specific cultures, especially when you're an insider in that culture and you can recognize the outsider's distance. I don't know Amy DeRogatis, and have no idea what sort of church she attends or if she is even a Christian. She is a Harvard Divinity School graduate and a professor of religious studies at Michigan State. In Saving Sex: Sexuality and Salvation in American Evangelicalism, she surveys a variety of evangelical books, web sites, and sermons to examine "the relationship between sexuality and salvation in American evangelicalism." The book is a revision and expansion of two articles published in scholarly journals.

DeRogatis gathered a wide variety of evangelical publications on dating, marriage, and sex to do a sort of sociological analysis of evangelical beliefs and practices. She found common themes that will be unsurprising to evangelicals, primarily "that heterosexual sex is holy and natural, is sanctioned by God, and should be practiced in marriage." DeRogatis's tone of ostensible academic detachment often comes across as arrogant and mocking, especially in her descriptions of purity pledges and the abstinence movement. Yes, some of it sounds silly, especially as she describes it, but what is her alternative? Endorsing sexual activity among teens doesn't seem like a good option.

The mocking continues as she discusses manuals for married couples. She sees them as simplistic, medically insufficient and naive, and too male-oriented. Responding to the claims of the purity movement and the sex manuals, she facetiously asks, "If sex within a sanctified marriage is fabulous, why do evangelicals continue to buy books about sexual technique and practices?Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 stars"Taking the bible as a guide to sexuality" really sounds ...
By playerdark on December 9, 2014
Format: Hardcover
"Taking the bible as a guide to sexuality" really sounds kind of creepy to me. Which part? Where Lot had sex with his daughters? Where the children of Adam and Eve inevitably had sex with their siblings? Or where God commands the Israelites to exterminate that tribe that inconveniently occupied the land he gave them as a gift, instructing them to keep the female virgins as slaves?

Some books should never be written, and this seems to be one of them in my eyes. I rather take the Rick James Bible than the King James Bible as my guide to sexuality.
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