How American Christians Learned to Talk About Homosexuality

Mark Jordan will give a public lecture on the subject of his latest book, Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality (2011; University of Chicago Press). He will discuss the rhetoric used by Christians to talk about sexuality over the past half-century—shedding light on one of the great “hot button” issues of our day. This event is sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics.

About Mark Jordan

Mark Jordan is the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Previously he taught at the University of Notre Dame and at Emory University, where he was Candler Professor of Religion. His interests include Christian ethics of sex and gender, the limits of religious language, the rhetoric of theology, and the ritual creation of religious identities. His books include Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk About Homosexuality (2011); The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (1997), winner of the 1999 John Boswell Prize for lesbian and gay history; The Ethics of Sex (2002); Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech (2003); and Rewritten Theology: Aquinas after His Readers (2006).