Outsourcing Moral Authority: The Internal Secularization of Evangelicals' Anti-Pornography Narratives

• Published in: Journal for the scientific study of religion Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 457 - 475
• Main Author: Thomas, Jeremy N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, NJ Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2013; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc; Wiley
• Subjects: Christianity; Content analysis; Ethics; Evangelicalism; Evangelism; General subjects. History of religions. Religious anthropology; God (Judeo-Christian); Health; History and sciences of religions; Humanism; Morality; Narratives; Periodicals; Pornography; Pornography & obscenity; Rights; Secularization; Studies in religion; Subcontracting; Methodology; History of religions

Based on content analysis of the popular evangelical magazine Christianity Today, I show that while evangelicals' outward opposition to pornography has remained steady and robust across the period 1956 to 2010, nonetheless, during this same time, evangelicals' anti-pornography narratives h...