Other dreams of freedom : religion, sex, and human trafficking /
Yvonne C. Zimmerman offers an exploration of the relationship between freedom and sexual regulation in American approaches to human trafficking. She argues that the religious values of American Protestantism have indelibly shaped the federal government's approach to engaging human trafficking,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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| Series: | American Academy of Religion academy series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Yvonne C. Zimmerman offers an exploration of the relationship between freedom and sexual regulation in American approaches to human trafficking. She argues that the religious values of American Protestantism have indelibly shaped the federal government's approach to engaging human trafficking, and that the trajectory of the US's anti-trafficking efforts cannot be fully grasped without an understanding of the unique ways in which sex, morality and freedom are connected in Protestant Christian configurations of the moral world. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 214 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199980765 0199980764 9780199942206 019994220X |