New PDF release: Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the

By Tanya Erzen

each year, 1000's of homosexual males and lesbians sign up for ex-gay ministries in an try to convert to non-homosexual Christian lives. during this interesting examine of the transnational ex-gay move, Tanya Erzen makes a speciality of the typical lives of fellows and girls at New desire Ministry, a residential ex-gay application, over the process a number of years. Straight to Jesus lines the tales of people that have renounced long term relationships and moved from different nations out of a conviction that the conservative Christian ideals in their upbringing and their very own same-sex wishes are irreconcilable. instead of definitively altering from gay to heterosexual, the members event a conversion that's either sexual and spiritual as born-again evangelical Christians. At New wish, they retain a private courting with Jesus and construct new sorts of kinship and belonging. via changing into what they name "new creations," those women and men testify to non secular transformation instead of alterations in sexual wish or habit. Straight to Jesus exposes how the Christian correct makes an attempt to repudiate homosexual identification and political rights by utilizing the ex-gay move as proof that "change is possible." as an alternative, Erzen finds, the realities of the lives she examines really undermine this anti-gay strategy.

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