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200 10$aReligion, Flesh, and Blood$b[electronic resource] $eThe Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion
210   $cLexington Books$d2015
215   $a1 online resource (186 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
327   $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 The Therapeutic Ethic""; ""2 A Portrait of Unity Fellowship Church""; ""3 Wrestling with Religion and the Rise of Personalized Religion""; ""4 Reconciling Religious Contradictions""; ""5 The Unintended Consequences of Therapeutic Religion""; ""6 Therapeutic Religion and Ambivalence""; ""7 Articulating Limits and Boundaries""; ""8 Lifting Up the Carpet, Opening Doors, and Reintegration""; ""9 Pain, the Truth of Human Feelings, and the Need for Therapeutic Religion""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""
330   $aThis is a case study of one congregation within the Unity Fellowship Church Movement that relies on therapeutic religion, a form of religion that strives to equip individuals with psychological capital, by enabling self-expressions and affirmations of social differences. The therapeutic ethic that characterizes this congregation has enabled some freedoms that are otherwise disallowed in traditional congregations. These new freedoms inadvertently have led to certain excesses, including overtly sexual language and behaviors. But this is not to say that the congregation disregards conventional no
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606   $aMedicine--Religious aspects--Christianity--Case studies
606   $aUnity Fellowship of Christ Church, Los Angeles
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