Kate Davis

KATE DAVIS {[email protected]} is an interdisciplinary scholar and oral historian. Her work sits at the intersection between religious studies and gender studies with a focus on digital humanities, gender, and religions of North America. She earned her PhD in religious studies from Claremont Graduate University and is currently a visiting assistant professor of the humanities at Alvernia University in Pennsylvania.

Heavenly Bodies: Mormon Male Homoerotics in the Sacred Art of Arnold Friberg

Articles/Essays – Volume 59, No. 1

Friberg’s work gained prominence in the early to mid-twentieth century, during a transitional period in American culture, and the carved physiques of Friberg’s subjects highlight a fascination with the male form, celebrating hypermasculinity by exaggerating sexual difference: hard versus soft, active versus passive, and male versus female.