scholarly journals Surviving the “Sexplosion”: Christianity Today and Evangelical Sexual Ethics in the Long 1960s

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Aaron Pattillo-Lunt
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Sexual Ethics ◽  
Conservative Protestant ◽  
Sexual Ethic ◽  
Sex Manuals ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Sexual Immorality

This paper examines how the editors and contributors to Christianity Today (CT) called for an evangelical sexual ethics in the 1960s. Editors and contributors alike were concerned that the supposed sexual immorality on college campuses, the liberalization of obscenity laws, the approval and sale of the birth control, and secular sex education programs threatened the United States’ social health. They believed that evangelicals needed to learn how to talk about sex, and this belief resulted in the development of conservative Protestant sex manuals by the middle of the 1970s. Overall, talk about sex in the pages of CT demonstrates that evangelicals are neither anti-sex nor traditionalists. They instead forged a new sexual ethic in response to the historical events and developments of the 1960s.

scholarly journals “Viajando em Jesus”: os evangélicos norte-americanos e a contracultura

2020 ◽  
pp. 924
Author(s):  
Axel R. Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Christian Right ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Conservative Protestant ◽  
New Christian Right ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

The political mobilization of conservative Protestants in the United States since the 1970s is commonly viewed as having resulted from a “backlash” against the alleged iniquities of the 1960s, including the excess-es of the counterculture. In contrast, this article maintains that conservative Protestant efforts to infiltrate and absorb the counterculture contributed to the organizational strength, cultural attractiveness, and politi-cal efficacy of the New Christian Right. The essay advances three arguments: First, that evangelicals did not simply reject the countercultural ideas of the 1960s, but absorbed and extended its key sentiments. Second, that conservative Protestantism’s appropriation of countercultural rhetoric and organizational styles played a significant role in the right-wing political mobilization of evangelicals. And third, that the merger of evan-gelical Christianity and countercultural styles, rather than their antagonism, ended up being one of the most enduring legacies of the sixties. In revisiting the relationship between the counterculture and evangelicalism, the essay also explores the larger implications for understanding the relationship between religion and poli-tics. The New Christian Right domesticated genuinely insurgent impulses within the evangelical resurgence. By the same token, it nurtured the conservative components of the counterculture. Conservative Protestant-ism thus constituted a political movement that channeled insurgencies into a cultural form that relegitimized the fundamental trajectories of liberal capitalism and consumerist society.

The Politics of Birth Control, 1920–1940: The Impact of Professionals

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Sex Education ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Women's Rights ◽  
Population Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Birth Control Movement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Held Back

Before the 1920s, a birth control movement arose in the United States out of socialist, feminist, and other radical groups concerned with women's rights and sexual freedom. After 1920 the birth control movement became gradually transformed into a respectable, nonradical reform cause, the recipient of large grants from big business, with women's rights secondary to an overriding concern with medical health and population control. This transformation was achieved through the professionalization of the birth control movement—that is, its takeover by professional experts, almost all male, in place of the radical amateur women, fighting for their own interests, who initiated it. The article examines two groups of professionals who were particularly influential in this transformation: doctors and academic eugenists. The former made birth control a medical issue, held back the development of popular sex education, and stifled a previously developing feminist approach to women's birth control needs. The latter contributed racism to the birth control movement, helping to transform it into a population control movement with racist and anti-feminist overtones. Both groups, while they made contributions to the technology of contraception, simultaneously held back the spread of birth control by transforming the campaign for it from a popular, participatory cause to a professional staff lobbying operation.

Marianne R. Sanua. Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895–1945. American Jewish Civilization Series. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2003. 446 pp.

AJS Review ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-412
Author(s):  
Diana Turk
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
State University ◽  
Wayne State University ◽  
College Going ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
The 1960S

Marianne R. Sanua offers a balanced examination of a largely unexplored topic, the Jewish Greek subsystem that developed on American college campuses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and thrived until the closure, merger, or reorientation of many of these organizations in the 1960s and early 1970s. One of the first studies to take the Greek system seriously and recognize it for the social and cultural force it was during its heyday in the early part of the twentieth century, Sanua's book provides readers with rare access to the aspirations, concerns, and ideals of a large segment—estimated between one fourth and one third—of the American Jewish college-going population of this time period.

scholarly journals Movimiento voices on campus: The newspapers of the Chicana/o student movement

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Harry L. Simón Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Community Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Student Newspapers ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Historical Moment

The political communication of the Chicana/o student movement of the 1960s and 1970s took place primarily through various forms of print media, with campus based student newspapers figuring prominently within that particular historical moment. At their peak, at least 48 Chicana/o student newspapers were produced on campuses throughout the country, marking these publications as both the principal and ideal format through which the flow of cultural and political information was channeled between movement publics, both on and off college campuses. Yet, the history of these publications has not been thoroughly documented, nor has the discursive legacy of this form of communicative resistance been fully examined. This paper provides a brief history of the emergence and significance of these student newspapers on campuses across the United States, focusing on how campus activists established this form of community media to help advocate on behalf of Chicana/o students and their broader publics.

3. Eugenic reproduction

2017 ◽  
pp. 47-71
Author(s):  
Philippa Levine
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Sex Education ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Artificial Insemination ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Core ◽  
Central Task ◽  
Marriage Laws ◽  
Core Activity

Driven by the dream of improving humanity down the generations, the management of reproduction was the core activity for which eugenicists strived. Although they had many different visions, eugenicists all agreed that their central task was to create for the future a fitter world through healthier reproduction. ‘Eugenic reproduction’ outlines the policies employed worldwide to further this aim: marriage laws; encouraging reproduction through incentives designed to secure healthy and stable population growth among the fit; sex education to inspire responsible reproduction; artificial insemination; birth control; abortion; euthanasia; and sterilization. Sterilization remains the most widely recognized of negative eugenic measures. It was most notably implemented in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia.

An "African" Gospel: American Evangelical Radio in West Africa, 1954-1970

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy H.B. Stoneman
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
American Missionaries ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
Conservative Protestant ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Gospel Message

During the second half of the twentieth century, Christianity underwent an epochal transformation from a predominantly Western religion to a world religion largely defined by non-Western adherents in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Broadcast media, spearheaded by American evangelical missionaries, played an important role in the globalization of Christianity. After WWII, conservative Protestant missionaries from the United States established a ``far-flung global network" of radio stations around the world with the avowed purpose of proselytizing the entire globe. In Liberia, American missionaries organized Station ELWA, the first evangelical station in Africa. The medium of radio proved well suited to the ``universal" mission of American evangelicals, particularly after the expansion of worldwide ownership in transistor radios during the 1960s. Yet the success of missionary radio stations such as ELWA rested on an extensive process of translation into local customs and practices. Between 1954 and 1970, ELWA officials and workers constructed transmission platforms, political relations, language services, receiver distribution campaigns, and community networks. These constructs functioned as the crucial grids through which the ``universal" meaning of evangelicalism was produced at the grass-roots level. As the history of ELWA in Liberia makes clear, American evangelical broadcasters acquired converts only by adapting their gospel message to fit particular churches, cultures, and contexts across the globe. Localizing missionary radio required the appropriation of indigenous cultural capital, the transposition of national partners, and the active agency of audiences on the ground.

Birth Control, Population Control, and Family Planning: An Overview

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald T. Critchlow
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Birth Control ◽  
Population Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Family Planning Programs ◽  
Political Controversy ◽  
The 1960S

The cultural fission created by the controversy over birth control and abortion, as Juvenal's satiric comment above indicates, has a long and bitter history. The emergence of the modern state, however, transformed cultural differences into political acrimony as reproduction rights became public policy. In the United States, reproductive rights in the post-World War II period became a matter of political controversy when the federal government began to fund family planning programs domestically and abroad in the 1960s.

Having Their Say, Leaving Their Mark

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-153
Author(s):  
Adolphus G. Belk ◽  
Robert C. Smith ◽  
Sherri L. Wallace
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Adverse Conditions ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Independent Organization

In general, the founders of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists were “movement people.” Powerful agents of socialization such as the uprisings of the 1960s molded them into scholars with tremendous resolve to tackle systemic inequalities in the political science discipline. In forming NCOBPS as an independent organization, many sought to develop a Black perspective in political science to push the boundaries of knowledge and to use that scholarship to ameliorate the adverse conditions confronting Black people in the United States and around the globe. This paper utilizes historical documents, speeches, interviews, and other scholarly works to detail the lasting contributions of the founders and Black political scientists to the discipline, paying particular attention to their scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and civic engagement. It finds that while political science is much improved as a result of their efforts, there is still work to do if their goals are to be achieved.

The Development of an Online Tobacco Tracker Tool to Crowdsource Campus Environmental Reports for Smoke and Tobacco Free College Policies: A Mixed Methods Study (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabrina F. Loureiro ◽  
Kim M. Pulvers ◽  
Melissa M. Gosdin ◽  
Keavagh R. Clift ◽  
Myra J. Rice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Policy Enforcement ◽  
Sequential Mixed Methods ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
Online Tracking ◽  
One Year

BACKGROUND College campuses in the United States have begun implementing Smoke and Tobacco-Free policies to discourage the use of tobacco. Smoke and Tobacco-Free policies, however, are contingent upon effective policy enforcement. OBJECTIVE To develop an empirically-derived online tracking tool (Tracker) for crowdsourcing campus environmental reports of tobacco use and waste to support smoke and tobacco-free college policies. METHODS An exploratory sequential mixed methods approach was utilized to inform the development and evaluation of the Tracker. In October 2018, three focus groups across two California universities were conducted and themes were analyzed, guiding Tracker development. After one year of implementation, users were asked in April 2020 to complete a survey about their experience. RESULTS In the focus groups, two major themes emerged: barriers and facilitators to tool utilization. Further Tracker development was guided by focus group input to address these barriers (e.g. information, policing, and logistical concerns) and facilitators (e.g. environmental motivators, positive reinforcement). Amongst 1,163 Tracker reports, those who completed the user survey (n=316) reported the top motivations to using the tool were having a cleaner environment (79%) and health concerns (69%). CONCLUSIONS Environmental concerns, a motivator which emerged in focus groups, shaped the Tracker’s development and was cited by the majority of users surveyed as a top motivator for utilization.

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