{"product_id":"sexual-heresies-joy-dixon-9781503646674","title":"Sexual Heresies: Religion, Science, and Sexuality in Modern Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Britain at the end of the nineteenth century, the new sexual sciences--from anthropological accounts of religion as rooted in ancient fertility cults to psychoanalytic theories that explained religious experience in terms of psychosexual development--characterized religion as closely connected to the sexual. The outcome, as Joy Dixon argues, was a new sense that religion itself could be sexually suspect. One result was an increasing concern to police \"sexual heresies\" to produce a supposedly normal (healthy, monogamous, and heterosexual) religiosity. The overall effect was a narrowing of the sexual possibilities inside \"orthodox\" religion and the association of alternative forms of religion with dissident sexualities that continues to shape both religion and secularism today. Drawing on a wide range of materials from diverse elements of British society, this book emphasizes the dynamic relationships between the histories of religion and of sexuality and the historical contingency of the categories we use to understand the relationship between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joy Dixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150364667X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503646674\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 342\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs","brand":"Joy Dixon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48460197724415,"sku":"9781503646674","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_26d57e58-cd80-4b63-a334-029e10f5d60d.jpg?v=1777413368","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sexual-heresies-joy-dixon-9781503646674","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}