Sex Scandals, Christianity, and America

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Brad interviews Dr. Leslie Dorrough Smith about her new book, Compromising Positions: Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity. She breaks down an important concept: Sex scandals are not about sex. They are about the stories the nation tells about itself, gender dynamics, masculinity, and above all power. This means certain white, straight, heterosexual politicians survive such scandals unscathed, while others have their political careers ended by even minor mishaps. It also means that in a strange way certain facets of American Christianity actually encourage sexual misbehavior as part and parcel of the political and religious status quo. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi Associate Professor, Religious Studies at Skidmore College.
0:19.0	And I am absolutely thrilled today to be joined by Dr Leslie Doro Smith to talk about her new book
0:25.9	Compromising positions which is all about sex scandals in the United States and Christianity.
0:33.8	So it's an amazing book.
0:35.8	Some of you have probably seen me on Twitter talking about it.
0:38.6	I get to read a lot of books because of this show.
0:40.8	And honestly, sometimes you find one that just. of this is one of this show
0:43.4	you find one that just you know you're gonna think about for a long time
0:47.2	probably using a class probably assigned to students because it's just that
0:51.5	insightful so that is one of that is one of those books.
0:54.4	Dr. Doro Smith has written a bunch,
0:57.6	first book, Righteous Rhetorick, Sex Speech
0:59.8	and the Politics of Concerned Women for America.
1:02.0	That's from Oxford University Press 2014.
1:05.3	edited volumes that really address sort of theory and method
1:08.6	in the study of religion and how we talk about religion.
1:11.0	So one on data and one on public rhetoric surrounding good and bad religion.
1:16.2	She's also written for religion dispatches, the conversation among other outlets.
1:20.7	And so final thing is a fellow UCSB alum. So it is always a joy to have my
1:26.3	fellow UCSB folks on here. So Dr. Smith, Dr. Doro Smith, thanks for being here. I really
1:30.9	appreciate it. Oh, it's such a pleasure.
1:32.8	Thanks for having me.
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