Innocent Ecstasy: How Christianity Gave America an Ethic of Sexual Pleasure Book

	Introduction	3
I	Catholic Sensuality	9
	Basic Doctrine	9
	Passion, Pleasure, and Sin	12
	Psychological Standards	21
II	Protestant Reactions	25
	Anti-Catholic Pornography	25
	Background and Results	32
III	Medical Christianity	39
	Sex and Sin in the Colonies	39
	The Reduction of Sin to Sex	44
	The Religion of Health in Protestant Theology	49
	The Fear of Passion and Sexual Practice	56
	Constituencies of the Victorian Consensus	62
IV	Medical Prophets	68
	Presbyterian Yoga	68
	Other Voices in the Wilderness	74
V	Evangelical Ecstasy	80
	The Rapture of Rebirth	80
	Methodism and Sanctification	85
VI	The Song of Bernadette	95
	Messages of the Beautiful Lady	95
	Mary in America	102
	The Ideal Woman	118
VII	Redemption through Sex	130
	Margaret Sanger	130
	G. Stanley Hall	140
	Conclusion	150
	Notes	163
	Bibliography	187
	Primary Sources	187
	Secondary Sources	192
	Index	195