03768nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001700169072001700186072002300203072001600226072001600242100007600258245009400334250001800428264008500446300003500531336002600566337002600592338003600618347002400654490005100678505041200729520164701141650002002788650002802808650002302836650001802859650004102877650003602918650002502954650001802979710003402997773002603031776003603057776003603093776003603129830005103165856004603216978-3-031-56392-8DE-He21320251030112328.0cr nn 008mamaa240624s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315639287 a10.1007/978-3-031-56392-82doi 4aHQ1121-1154 7aHBTB2bicssc 7aJFSJ2bicssc 7aHIS0580002bisacsh 7aNHTB2thema 7aJBSF2thema1 aRamsay, Laura.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aSexuality and the Church of England, 1918-1980h[electronic resource] /cby Laura Ramsay.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIII, 265 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aGenders and Sexualities in History,x2730-94870 a1. Introduction -- 2. Moral welfare: The Church in the vanguard of thought and action -- 3. Modernising Christian views on sex -- 4. Interwar debates on birth control -- 5. Assembling a Christian view of homosexual citizenship -- 6. Towards a permissive and secular society? -- 7. Homosexual law reform -- 8. The Church paints itself into a corner -- 9.The Collapse of the Moral Consensus -- 10. Conclusion.  aThis book presents an original and archivally rich account of the Church of England’s institutional grappling with matters of sex, relationships, marriage, birth control, and same-sex attraction between 1918 and 1980, uncovering a long and complex history of debates and disagreements that led to its present-day impasse over issues of sexuality. Across a long and previously underexplored chronology, the book examines various ways in which Anglicans shaped and popularised understandings of sex and desire, conceptions of sexual morality, and notions of sexual citizenship. Its account begins in the interwar years when the church exerted a powerful influence on attitudes and approaches towards sex and morality, moves through the challenges of the post-war years when Anglicans continued to debate and construct the new moral landscape of the permissive society, and ends in the late twentieth century when the church’s preferred means of functioning as an agent of mediation ultimately meant it lost pace with new approaches towards sexual identities and relationships. Despite its historically established role in guiding the nation, by the late 1970s, the church had unwittingly painted itself into a corner by provoking internal disputes that it struggled to resolve. As its compromise positions became outdated, the church’s views increasingly fell out of favour and contributed to its gradual demise as a former expert on sexual issues. Laura Ramsay is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Bournemouth University, UK. She has published articles and chapters on Christianity, gender, and sexuality in modern Britain and Europe. 0aWomenxHistory. 0aGreat BritainxHistory. 0aReligionxHistory. 0aChristianity.14aWomen's History / History of Gender.24aHistory of Britain and Ireland.24aHistory of Religion.24aChristianity.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303156391108iPrinted edition:z978303156393508iPrinted edition:z9783031563942 0aGenders and Sexualities in History,x2730-948740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56392-8