Description: Condition: Good. Packed in a BOX with cardboard backing and padding. (See Photos)! Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Cover: clean, bright, a few scuffs to back, very good edges. Ships from California. Ships same or next day (weekdays and Saturdays)! ABOUT THIS: With a revolution behind them, a continent before them, and the First Amendment protecting them, religio-sexual pioneers in antebellum America were free to strike out on their own, breaking with the orthodoxies of the past. Shakers followed the ascetic path; Oneida Perfectionists accepted sex as a gift from God; and Mormons redefined marriage in light of new religious revelations that also redefined God, humankind, spirit, and matter. Sex became a powerful way for each group to reinforce their sectarian identity as strangers in a strange land.Sex and Sects tells the story of these three religiously inspired sexual innovations in America: the celibate lifestyle of the Shakers, the Oneida Community’s system of controlled polyamory, and plural marriage as practiced by the Mormons. Stewart Davenport analyzes why these bold experiments rose and largely fell over the course of the nineteenth century within the confines of the new American republic. Moving beyond a social-scientific lens, Davenport traces for the first time their fascinating shared trajectory as they emerged, struggled, institutionalized, and declined in tandem―and sheds historical light on the way in which Americans have discussed, contested, and redefined the institutions of marriage and family both in our private lives and in the public realm.
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Subject: Religion
Subject Area: Sects
Item Length: 9.1in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6.2in
Author: Stewart Davenport
Publication Name: Sex and Sects : the Story of Mormon Polygamy, Shaker Celibacy, and Oneida Complex Marriage
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication Year: 2022
Series: American Spirituality Ser.
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 24.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 362 Pages
