03984nam 2200649Ia 450 991077871450332120230925154215.097866112235881-281-22358-10-226-32769-810.7208/9780226327693(CKB)111004366538968(EBL)408492(OCoLC)476229332(SSID)ssj0000276919(PQKBManifestationID)11225202(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000276919(PQKBWorkID)10226567(PQKB)11348772(MiAaPQ)EBC408492(DE-B1597)535549(OCoLC)824143755(DE-B1597)9780226327693(Au-PeEL)EBL408492(CaPaEBR)ebr10216920(CaONFJC)MIL122358(EXLCZ)9911100436653896819960627d1997 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe antigay agenda orthodox vision and the Christian right /Didi HermanChicago :University of Chicago Press,1997.1 online resource (256 pages)0-226-32764-7 0-226-32765-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-236) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Introduction --2. Devil Discourse and the Shifting Construction of Homosexuality in Christianity Today --3. Representing Homosexuality and Its Agenda --4. No Lesbians, Gay Lesbians, Feminist Lesbians --5. (Il)legitimate Minorities. The Construction of Rights- (Un)deserving Subjects --6. The Christian Right versus Gay Rights in Colorado, 1992-1996 --7. Regulation, Restoration, Reconstruction Conservative Christianity and the State --Afterword: Thoughts on Backlash and Utopia --Notes --References --IndexIn The Antigay Agenda, Didi Herman probes the values, beliefs, and rhetoric of the organizations of the Christian Right. Tracing the emergence of their antigay agenda, Herman explores how and why these groups made antigay activity a top priority, and how it relates to their political history. "A penetrating analysis of the Christian Right's antigay agenda and of how that agenda is derived from the Christian Right's peculiar vision of American history and the Christian faith."-Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Boston Book Review "Public intellectualism at its best. . . . A comprehensive summary of the conservative Protestant worldview."-Michael Joseph Gross, Boston Phoenix Literary Section "Presents considerable information not previously part of the nation's political discourse. . . . [Herman] dissects the Christian Right's antigay stance dispassionately giving, as it were, the devil his due. For anyone on either side of this passionate and important conflict, that is an impressive accomplishment."-Hastings Wyman, Jr., Washington Post Book WorldConservatismReligious aspectsChristianityFundamentalismHistory20th centuryHomosexualityReligious aspectsChristianitychristian right, politics, platform, homosexuality, agenda, rhetoric, antigay, sexuality, moral majority, religion, faith, doctrine, scripture, nonfiction, christianity, history, conservative, protestant, fundamentalism, discourse, sin, righteousness, undeserving, feminism, women, gender, immigrants, gay rights, colorado, backlash, reconstruction, restoration, regulation.ConservatismReligious aspectsChristianity.FundamentalismHistoryHomosexualityReligious aspectsChristianity.261.8/35766/0973Herman Didi1503500MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778714503321The antigay agenda3731938UNINA