The book ranges over developments within Europe and beyond to the European colonies including Brazil, Mexico, South Africa and Goa, which were establishing themselves around the world.
Each chapter in this third edition has been updated to reflect new scholarship, particularly on the actual lived experience of people around the world.
"Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World surveys the ways in which people from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson used Christian ideas and institutions to regulate and shape sexual norms and conduct, ...
Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice Merry E. Wiesner, Merry Wiesner-Hanks. First published 2000 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, ...
For articles that focus particularly on Luther's ideas about sex, see Thomas A. Fudge, “Incest and Lust in Luther's Marriage Theology and Morality in Reformation Polemics,” Sixteenth Century Journal 34 (2003): 321–28 and Merry E.
Surveys the ways in which Christain ideas and institutions shaped the sexual norms and conduct from the time of Columbus and Luther to that of Thomas Jefferson.