Victoria Houser 10/23/24 Victoria Houser 10/23/24

Your Misogyny is Not a Cultural Difference

Constellating transnational stories of religious gender-based violence and feminist resistance.

Karly Poyner-Smith 7/21/24 Karly Poyner-Smith 7/21/24

“You Are Not the Victim Here”

Conspirituality and the Framing of Evangelical Patriarchy as a Victim of #ChurchToo Disruption

Karly Poyner-Smith 6/1/24 Karly Poyner-Smith 6/1/24

Rhetorics of Impurities

ExVangelicalism as Excavating and Encountering Purity

Rebekah Vickery 4/9/24 Rebekah Vickery 4/9/24

Graham Crackers and Good Girls

A historical and theoretical case for expanding the conceptual reach of purity culture’s control of bodies assigned female at birth.

Liv Schultz 4/2/24 Liv Schultz 4/2/24

Navigating Evangelical Affect

Convictions, Promises, and Dissonance in Adolescent Adherence to Purity Teachings

Tessi Muskrat 4/2/24 Tessi Muskrat 4/2/24

The Space Between

Liminal time within purity culture.

Lauren D. Sawyer 3/29/24 Lauren D. Sawyer 3/29/24

Purity culture and the limits of queer evangelicalism

This article examines the connection between the recent emergence of queer evangelical celibacy narratives and the rhetoric of purity as a form of personal freedom.

Kat Klement 7/6/22 Kat Klement 7/6/22

The One Ring Model

Rape Culture Beliefs are Linked to Purity Culture Beliefs

Liv Schultz 12/1/21 Liv Schultz 12/1/21

Purity Culture’s Racist Fruit

Centering the Voices of Black Womanists and Feminists in the Deconstruction of Purity Culture

Allison Murray 6/1/21 Allison Murray 6/1/21

Building Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

White American Evangelical Complementarian Theology, 1970-2010

Kat Klement 10/14/16 Kat Klement 10/14/16

Nobody Wants to Date a Whore

Rape-Supportive Messages in Women-Directed Christian Dating Books

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