04117nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-56392-8 DE-He213 20251030112328.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240624s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031563928 978-3-031-56392-8 10.1007/978-3-031-56392-8 doi HQ1121-1154 HBTB bicssc JFSJ bicssc HIS058000 bisacsh NHTB thema JBSF thema Ramsay, Laura. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 79207 Sexuality and the Church of England, 1918-1980 [electronic resource] / by Laura Ramsay. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XIII, 265 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487 1. 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. This 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 As its compromise positions became outdated, the church’s views increasingly fell out of favour and contributed to its gradual demise as a former expert on sexual issues.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. Women History. 68068 Great Britain History. 66701 Religion History. 66931 Christianity. 72553 Women's History / History of Gender. 68069 History of Britain and Ireland. 66703 History of Religion. 66936 Christianity. 72553 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031563911 Printed edition: 9783031563935 Printed edition: 9783031563942 Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487 79208 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56392-8 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 60967 60967