Making Chastity Sexy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Chastity Sexy write by Christine J. Gardner. This book was released on 2011-07-28. Making Chastity Sexy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even though they are immersed in sex-saturated society, millions of teens are pledging to remain virgins until their wedding night. How are evangelical Christians persuading young people to wait until marriage? Christine J. Gardner looks closely at the language of the chastity movement and discovers a savvy campaign that uses sex to "sell" abstinence. Drawing from interviews with evangelical leaders and teenagers, she examines the strategy to shift from a negative "just say no" approach to a positive one: "just say yes" to great sex within marriage. Making Chastity Sexy sheds new light on an abstinence campaign that has successfully recast a traditionally feminist idea—"my body, my choice"—into a powerful message, but one that Gardner suggests may ultimately reduce evangelicalism’s transformative power. Focusing on the United States, her study also includes a comparative dimension by examining the export of this evangelical agenda to sub-Saharan Africa.
Talking Back to Purity Culture
Talking Back to Purity Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talking Back to Purity Culture write by Rachel Joy Welcher. This book was released on 2020-11-10. Talking Back to Purity Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The generation born into evangelical purity culture has grown up, but many still struggle with its complicated legacy. Examining purity culture's teachings through the lens of Scripture, Rachel Joy Welcher charts a path forward in the ongoing debates about sexuality—one that rejects legalism and license alike, steering us back instead to the good news of Jesus.
The Thrill of the Chaste (Catholic Edition)
The Thrill of the Chaste (Catholic Edition) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Thrill of the Chaste (Catholic Edition) write by Dawn Eden. This book was released on 2015-01-26. The Thrill of the Chaste (Catholic Edition) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dawn Eden, internationally known speaker and author, presents a completely revised Catholic edition of her bestselling work, The Thrill of the Chaste. In this version, Eden shares her story of conversion to Catholicism and invites readers into a Catholic understanding of chastity and its spiritual benefits. When Dawn Eden released The Thrill of the Chaste in 2006, she was a Jewish convert to Protestant Christianity, preparing to make the final leap into Catholicism. Now, nine years later, Eden has extensively updated The Thrill of the Chaste, sharing how her Catholic faith, the lives and intercession of the saints, and the healing power of the sacraments have led her to find her true identity in Christ. This revised, Catholic version offers spiritual and practical advice for both men and women seeking to live chastely in a world that glorifies sex. Eden offers tips to help readers avoid temptation and live faithfully—including dressing modestly, but not being afraid to feel good about the way they look; trusting that God has a plan for their life and relationships; and making sure their “yes” comes from the heart.
The Chastity Plot
The Chastity Plot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chastity Plot write by Lisabeth During. This book was released on 2021-04-23. The Chastity Plot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Chastity Plot, Lisabeth During tells the story of the rise, fall, and transformation of the ideal of chastity. From its role in the practice of asceticism to its associations with sovereignty, violence, and the purity of nature, it has been loved, honored, and despised. Obsession with chastity has played a powerful and disturbing role in our moral imagination. It has enforced patriarchy’s double standards, complicated sexual relations, and imbedded in Western culture a myth of gender that has been long contested by feminists. Still not yet fully understood, the chastity plot remains with us, and the metaphysics of purity continue to haunt literature, religion, and philosophy. Idealized and unattainable, sexual renunciation has shaped social institutions, political power, ethical norms, and clerical abuses. It has led to destruction and passion, to seductive fantasies that inspired saints and provoked libertines. As During shows, it should not be underestimated. Examining literature, religion, psychoanalysis, and cultural history from antiquity through the middle ages and into modernity, During provides a sweeping history of chastity and insight into its subversive potential. Instead of simply asking what chastity is, During considers what chastity can do, why we should care, and how it might provide a productive disruption, generating new ways of thinking about sex, integrity, and freedom.
Just One of the Guys
Just One of the Guys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Just One of the Guys write by Kristan Higgins. This book was released on 2012-08-21. Just One of the Guys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a last-ditch effort to find the man of her dreams, Chastity O'Neil, an editor and soon-to-be spinster, gives online dating a try, with interesting results.
