Jenell Williams Paris

Jenell is a professor of Anthropology at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. She is also the author of The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex is Too Important to Define Who We Are.

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The Return to Sexual Holiness

An Excerpt from The End of Sexual Identity

Sexual identity has become an idol in both the culture at large and in the Christian subculture. And yet concepts like "gay" or "straight" are relatively recent developments in human history. We let ourselves be defined by socially constructed notions of sexual identity and sexual orientation--even though these may not be the only or best ways to think about sexuality. Anthropologist Jenell Williams Paris offers a Christian framework for sexual holiness that accounts for complex postmodern realities.

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