Sex and Sects
Download or Read eBook Sex and Sects PDF written by Stewart Davenport and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Stewart Davenport |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| ISBN-10 | : 0813947057 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9780813947051 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Sex and Sects by : Stewart Davenport
Book excerpt: "Sex and Sects tells the story of three religiously inspired sexual innovations in America--Shaker celibacy, Mormon polygamy, and the Oneida Community's free love. It explores why these bold experiments rose and then fell primarily over the course of the nineteenth century and almost exclusively within the confines of the new American republic. Rather than view them through a social-scientific lens, Sex and Sects traces their fascinating shared trajectory as they emerged, struggled, institutionalized, and declined in tandem"--
