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Sent: 17 October 2012 14:38 Dear Noami, This reply is in regard to your request for readings that discuss how "Christian teachings on a few key issues... have varied over time and will chart the diverse ways in which Christian individuals and communities have negotiated, contested, or reconfigured these teachings in their lives and writings." I'll be bold and suggest a portion from my recent book: _Male Homosexuality in West Germany: Between Persecution and Freedom, 1945-1969 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)_. There is one chapter that discusses the role of the Christianity in reinforcing prejudices after World War II in a reconstructed West Germany, but then also a later chapter that discusses the role of liberal Christians in arguing for a more progressive attitude towards homosexuality. The arguments made by liberal Christians in the 1960s were critical, I argue, in setting the stage for the 1969 decriminalization of adult male homosexuality. Since I am writing, I will also add Dagmar Herzog's book _Sex after Fascism_. I use one of her chapters in my own course on postwar Europe to help students think about the sexual conservatism that descends over Europe in the 1950s and early 1960s. Best, Clayton Whisnant Associate Professor of European History Wofford College
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