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Sexual Heresies by Joy Dixon

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Sexual Heresies by Joy Dixon

In Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, the new sexual sciences—from anthropological accounts of religion as rooted in ancient fertility cults to psychoanalytic theories that explained religious experience in terms of psychosexual development—characterized religion as closely connected to the sexual. The outcome, as Joy Dixon argues, was a new sense that religion itself could be sexually suspect. One result was an increasing concern to police "sexual heresies" to produce a supposedly normal (healthy, monogamous, and heterosexual) religiosity. The overall effect was a narrowing of the sexual possibilities inside "orthodox" religion and the association of alternative forms of religion with dissident sexualities that continues to shape both religion and secularism today. Drawing on a wide range of materials from diverse elements of British society, this book emphasizes the dynamic relationships between the histories of religion and of sexuality and the historical contingency of the categories we use to understand the relationship between the two.

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"This beautifully researched and carefully documented book offers a fascinating analysis of the ways in which religion, of various sorts and broadly defined (from the occult to evangelical Christianity), interacts with debates on sexualityJoy Dixon brings together scholarship on the history of sexuality and gender, psychology secularization, and religion to create an original and important piece of work." - Jane Shaw, University of Oxford
Joy Dixon is Associate Professor of History at the University of British Columbia and the author of Divine Feminine: Theosophy and Feminism in England (2001).
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ISBN 13 9781503646674
ISBN 10 150364667X
Title Sexual Heresies
Author Joy Dixon
Series Spiritual Phenomena
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Stanford University Press
Year published 2026-05-12
Number of pages 320
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