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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reuse material from the author's essays “We Shall Overcome: Changing Politics and Changing Sexuality in the Ex-Gay Movement,” in Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America, edited by Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman, © 2004 by Columbia University Press and used by permission of Columbia University Press; and “Sexual Healing: Self-Help and Therapeutic Christianity in the Ex-Gay Movement,” in Religion and Healing in America, edited by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered, © 2.004 by Oxford University Press and used by permission of Oxford University Press.

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Erzen, Tanya.

Straight to Jesus : sexual and Christian conversions in the ex-gay movement / Tanya Erzen.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

ISBN-13 978-0-520-24581-5 (cloth : alk. paper),

ISBN-10 0-520-24581-4 (cloth : alk. paper)—

ISBN-13 978-0-520-24582-2 (pbk. : alk. paper),

ISBN-10 0-520-24582-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Church work with gays—California—San Rafael—Case studies. 2. Ex-gay movement—California—San Rafael—Case studies. 3. New Hope Ministries—Case studies. I. Title.

BV4437.5.E79 2006

306.6'6183576—dc22 2005023504

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