Courtney Ann Irby
Biographic Data
| ID | 166443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Courtney Ann Irby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Courtney Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Irby |
| SIGNATURE | IRBY C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3310-3693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States by Kristy L. Slominski
Reviewed by: Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States by Kristy L. Slominski Courtney Ann Irby Kristy L. Slominski, Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) Motivated by a desire to complicate the standard narrative that positions sex versus religion, scholars in recent years have tried to illustrate that religious groups are …
Reflections on the Promise and Challenge of Interdisciplinary Research on Gender and Religion
Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants. By Samuel L. PerryBiblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire. By Jessica Johnson
After a long period of silence, scholars of religion have in recent years begun to investigate the place of sex(uality). Whether as a result of religious traditions’ sexual rules or the lingering influence of secularization theories that conceptualize sexual liberalism as a sign of the declining influence of religion, early efforts on this topic often focused on identifying the ways that religious groups were not merely “anti-sex.” Combatting the…
Instructions for God's Gift: Emotional Management in the Cultural Transmission of Evangelical Sexuality
Drawing on a comparative study of evangelical premarital counseling programs, I analyze how the leadership construct sexual discourses that reimagine and reify existing views about sex and how to feel about it. Situated within evangelicalism's emotional regime that conceptualizes unmarried believers in a sexual battleground and married couples in a playground, engaged couples occupy a liminal position where they must engage in emotion work to rel…
Getting to Church: Exploring Narratives of Gender and Joining, by Sally K. Gallagher
In our increasingly mobile society, it is now less likely that people will spend their whole life within one congregation. The combination of a vast array of options for religious communities and a greater willingness to switch religious denominations and traditions has complicated our understanding of people’s motivations for joining churches. Putting a contemporary spin on classic concerns within the sociology of religion, this begs the questio…
Bifurcated Conversations in Sociological Studies of Religion and Gender
Feminist sociologists claim that while feminist insights have been incorporated in sociological paradigms and women sociologists have been well-integrated into academia, sociological frameworks have not been transformed, a process known as the missing feminist revolution. Yet, few have examined how the missing feminist revolution operates in specific subdisciplines and the mechanisms that sustain it. This article undertakes these tasks by analyzi…
"Church" in Black and White: The Organizational Lives of Young Adults
The religious lives of young adults have generally been investigated by examining what young people believe and their self-reported religious practices. Far less is known about young adults' organizational involvement and its impact on religious identities and ideas about religious commitment. Using data from site visit observations of religious congregations and organizations, and individual and focus group interviews with college-age black and …
Moving Beyond Agency: A Review of Gender and Intimate Relationships in Conservative Religions
Studies of gender regimes within conservative religion have often focused on the dynamics of intimate relationships to separately analyze women's agency and men's authority. By bridging studies of men and women in a variety of intimate relationships, this article provides a relational analysis of how gender and religion intersect in daily life. Given the importance of marriage within conservative religions, I first review studies of married women…
Dating in Light of Christ: Young Evangelicals Negotiating Gender in the Context of Religious and Secular American Culture
Journal Article Dating in Light of Christ: Young Evangelicals Negotiating Gender in the Context of Religious and Secular American Culture Get access Courtney Ann Irby Courtney Ann Irby * Loyola University Chicago *Direct correspondence to Courtney Ann Irby, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 75, Issue 2, SUMMER 2…
We didn't call it dating: The disrupted landscape of relationship advice for evangelical Protestant youth
Studies of religious meaning-making, especially on young adults, tend to prioritize the views of religious elites and orthodox doctrines. By focusing on the everyday activity of romantic relationships, a topic that has no orthodox position, this article analyzes both how religious elites construct discursive fields of meaning and how laity negotiate this field. Drawing on a study of popular Christian relationship advice books and interviews with …
Dating in Light of Christ: Young Evangelicals Negotiating Gender in the Context of Religious and Secular American Culture
Journal Article Dating in Light of Christ: Young Evangelicals Negotiating Gender in the Context of Religious and Secular American Culture Get access Courtney Ann Irby Courtney Ann Irby * Loyola University Chicago *Direct correspondence to Courtney Ann Irby, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 75, Issue 2, SUMMER 2…
Bifurcated Conversations in Sociological Studies of Religion and Gender
Feminist sociologists claim that while feminist insights have been incorporated in sociological paradigms and women sociologists have been well-integrated into academia, sociological frameworks have not been transformed, a process known as the missing feminist revolution. Yet, few have examined how the missing feminist revolution operates in specific subdisciplines and the mechanisms that sustain it. This article undertakes these tasks by analyzi…
We didn't call it dating: The disrupted landscape of relationship advice for evangelical Protestant youth
Studies of religious meaning-making, especially on young adults, tend to prioritize the views of religious elites and orthodox doctrines. By focusing on the everyday activity of romantic relationships, a topic that has no orthodox position, this article analyzes both how religious elites construct discursive fields of meaning and how laity negotiate this field. Drawing on a study of popular Christian relationship advice books and interviews with …
"Church" in Black and White: The Organizational Lives of Young Adults
The religious lives of young adults have generally been investigated by examining what young people believe and their self-reported religious practices. Far less is known about young adults' organizational involvement and its impact on religious identities and ideas about religious commitment. Using data from site visit observations of religious congregations and organizations, and individual and focus group interviews with college-age black and …
Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants. By Samuel L. PerryBiblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire. By Jessica Johnson
After a long period of silence, scholars of religion have in recent years begun to investigate the place of sex(uality). Whether as a result of religious traditions’ sexual rules or the lingering influence of secularization theories that conceptualize sexual liberalism as a sign of the declining influence of religion, early efforts on this topic often focused on identifying the ways that religious groups were not merely “anti-sex.” Combatting the…
Instructions for God's Gift: Emotional Management in the Cultural Transmission of Evangelical Sexuality
Drawing on a comparative study of evangelical premarital counseling programs, I analyze how the leadership construct sexual discourses that reimagine and reify existing views about sex and how to feel about it. Situated within evangelicalism's emotional regime that conceptualizes unmarried believers in a sexual battleground and married couples in a playground, engaged couples occupy a liminal position where they must engage in emotion work to rel…
We didn't call it dating: The disrupted landscape of relationship advice for evangelical Protestant youth
Studies of religious meaning-making, especially on young adults, tend to prioritize the views of religious elites and orthodox doctrines. By focusing on the everyday activity of romantic relationships, a topic that has no orthodox position, this article analyzes both how religious elites construct discursive fields of meaning and how laity negotiate this field. Drawing on a study of popular Christian relationship advice books and interviews with …
Moving Beyond Agency: A Review of Gender and Intimate Relationships in Conservative Religions
Studies of gender regimes within conservative religion have often focused on the dynamics of intimate relationships to separately analyze women's agency and men's authority. By bridging studies of men and women in a variety of intimate relationships, this article provides a relational analysis of how gender and religion intersect in daily life. Given the importance of marriage within conservative religions, I first review studies of married women…
Dating in Light of Christ: Young Evangelicals Negotiating Gender in the Context of Religious and Secular American Culture
Journal Article Dating in Light of Christ: Young Evangelicals Negotiating Gender in the Context of Religious and Secular American Culture Get access Courtney Ann Irby Courtney Ann Irby * Loyola University Chicago *Direct correspondence to Courtney Ann Irby, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 75, Issue 2, SUMMER 2…
"Church" in Black and White: The Organizational Lives of Young Adults
The religious lives of young adults have generally been investigated by examining what young people believe and their self-reported religious practices. Far less is known about young adults' organizational involvement and its impact on religious identities and ideas about religious commitment. Using data from site visit observations of religious congregations and organizations, and individual and focus group interviews with college-age black and …
Bifurcated Conversations in Sociological Studies of Religion and Gender
Feminist sociologists claim that while feminist insights have been incorporated in sociological paradigms and women sociologists have been well-integrated into academia, sociological frameworks have not been transformed, a process known as the missing feminist revolution. Yet, few have examined how the missing feminist revolution operates in specific subdisciplines and the mechanisms that sustain it. This article undertakes these tasks by analyzi…
Getting to Church: Exploring Narratives of Gender and Joining, by Sally K. Gallagher
In our increasingly mobile society, it is now less likely that people will spend their whole life within one congregation. The combination of a vast array of options for religious communities and a greater willingness to switch religious denominations and traditions has complicated our understanding of people’s motivations for joining churches. Putting a contemporary spin on classic concerns within the sociology of religion, this begs the questio…
Instructions for God's Gift: Emotional Management in the Cultural Transmission of Evangelical Sexuality
Drawing on a comparative study of evangelical premarital counseling programs, I analyze how the leadership construct sexual discourses that reimagine and reify existing views about sex and how to feel about it. Situated within evangelicalism's emotional regime that conceptualizes unmarried believers in a sexual battleground and married couples in a playground, engaged couples occupy a liminal position where they must engage in emotion work to rel…
Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants. By Samuel L. PerryBiblical Porn: Affect, Labor, and Pastor Mark Driscoll’s Evangelical Empire. By Jessica Johnson
After a long period of silence, scholars of religion have in recent years begun to investigate the place of sex(uality). Whether as a result of religious traditions’ sexual rules or the lingering influence of secularization theories that conceptualize sexual liberalism as a sign of the declining influence of religion, early efforts on this topic often focused on identifying the ways that religious groups were not merely “anti-sex.” Combatting the…
Reflections on the Promise and Challenge of Interdisciplinary Research on Gender and Religion
Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States by Kristy L. Slominski
Reviewed by: Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States by Kristy L. Slominski Courtney Ann Irby Kristy L. Slominski, Teaching Moral Sex: A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021) Motivated by a desire to complicate the standard narrative that positions sex versus religion, scholars in recent years have tried to illustrate that religious groups are …
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (9 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)