https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research daily 0.75 2025-04-03 https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-zjm9s-n8eer-kteh7 monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/0a200a99-8ba8-420b-af66-a72f8c230dd8/women.jpg Member Research - Unholy Trinity October 28, 2018 Abstract: Using the April 23, 2018 misogyny-motivated van attack that occurred in Toronto as a starting point, this blog post examines the definition of toxic masculinity and compares the ways in which both incel culture and evangelical complementarian theology are rooted in this toxicity. The complementarian position contains many alarming parallels—particularly in their discourse around sex—to incel thinking. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-zjm9s-n8eer monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/b9f7a00c-7a36-44c9-abe1-0f55264a8c07/University_of_Memphis_seal.svg.png Member Research - Rhetorics of Impurities Dissertation, 2024 Abstract: This dissertation explores purity discourse through the lens of the ExVangelical movement. Using mixed methods, this inquiry employs critical qualitative research to examine how ExVangelicalism uses the roles of identification, place, and space to critique purity’s oppressive categorizations. In doing so, ExVangelicals represent a theoretical rhetoric of impurities in which purity is continuously excavated and encountered. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-zjm9s monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/c014f183-5e1c-4a62-a24a-575452d70a3d/women+%281%29.png Member Research - Building Biblical Manhood and Womanhood Dissertation, 2021 Abstract: In the later twentieth century, to counter “second wave” feminist ideas about gender being the product of socialization, anti-feminist evangelicals in America began promoting a particular gendered theological anthropology they named complementarianism. It presented manhood and womanhood as innate, divinely ordained, categories of identity with accompanying biblically prescribed roles for men and women in the church, the home, and society. I argue that notions of “biblical” manhood and womanhood rest on a theologically back-filled foundation that consists of cultural assumptions, particular theological commitments, nostalgia, and conservative, white, middle-class, American values as much, if not more, than biblical insights. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-7ks89 monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/2ad617ef-ac91-48d2-bbad-2d6fd6e64b53/communication+studies.png Member Research - “You Are Not the Victim Here” July 21, 2024 Abstract: The term “Church Too” not only echoes “#MeToo” but implies a rebuttal against American evangelicalism’s authoritative and longstanding argument of the church existing as a safe and divinized place and the churchgoer positioned within a secure environment – unable to be a part of a sexual assault experience. In other words, abuse happens in “Church Too.” In this piece, we argue that churches’ rhetorical responses to the #ChurchToo movement should be understood as part of evangelicalism’s ongoing perception of being under attack from feminism. They are, therefore, victims in the culture war, in which “ChurchToo” becomes yet another battle to be fought, with the church taking defense. Consequently, evangelicalism’s defense narratives use strategies of conspirituality, narratives of disruption, and the victimhood enthymeme. As a result, we argue scholars must consider these rhetorical strategies to understand how the ideology of victimhood is both deeply embedded and an exceedingly powerful vision of reality, within white American evangelicalism. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-3fckd-p266e monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/d5a5162b-b847-4d84-949c-e7ca2b07cc0d/sexuality+%26+culture+cover.PNG Member Research - The One Ring Model July 6, 2022 Abstract: The One Ring Model suggests that when a culture presents both ideas valuing female purity (Purity Culture) and ideas promoting sexual violence against women (Rape Culture), people acquire both sets of ideas and these two idea systems can be cognitively linked. Results from Studies 1 through 4 present correlational evidence of this between-construct linkage and show that endorsement of purity beliefs and endorsement of rape myths can sometimes simultaneously and uniquely predict blame for a sexual assault. Results from Study 5 support the existence of the linkage by showing that priming purity ideas increases the strength of rape myth beliefs. Taken together, these studies provide preliminary evidence that, not only are purity culture ideas cognitively associated with rape culture ideas, but that they might be causally linked as well. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-6w4sl monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/15065111-98d9-436e-a717-ac08bacfbac3/theology+and+sexuality.jpg Member Research - Navigating Evangelical Affect April 2, 2024 Abstract: This paper theorizes how evangelicalism utilizes affect to convict adolescents to adhere to evangelical purity teachings, despite a proliferation of scholarship and lived experiences demonstrating disaffected outcomes. It contends that evangelicalism entices youth with captivating affect, promising a blissful marriage, meaningful participation in a divinely good movement, and assured salvation in exchange for obedience. Conversely, disobedience carries the explicit consequences of unhappiness, sin, and the threat of hell. Sara Ahmed's insights on collective emotions and the promise of happiness reveal that evangelicalism attaches positive affect to the social norms it aims to perpetuate, rather than those genuinely conducive to happiness. In the process of internalizing affective evangelical rhetoric claiming that evangelicalism is inherently good, adolescents learn not to see, or experiencing a lack of capacity to see, the negative outcomes that is inherent to evangelical beliefs and its projects. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-3fckd monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/d5a5162b-b847-4d84-949c-e7ca2b07cc0d/sexuality+%26+culture+cover.PNG Member Research - Nobody Wants to Date a Whore October 14, 2016 Abstract: Despite advances in gender and sexual equality, women are still constrained by standards and norms in American culture. Women hear messages that they must remain sexually abstinent, and if they violate these proscriptions, they are met with negative social consequences. The present study examined a potential source for such messages: women-directed Christian dating books, using hypothesis-driven thematic analysis. Content analysis of both mixed-gender and women-directed Christian dating books revealed themes such as: the belief that sex devalues women; men and women were created for different, complementary purposes; sex should only be for procreation; women are responsible for sexual violence that men perpetrate; women should expect and accept sexual violence as a normal part of life; and women who are not submissive should be derogated. The implications of finding these themes in media meant to convey lessons of purity are discussed. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-9en4e-bbsxw monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/ad109e14-9095-426f-b829-c697d20d84d3/theology+sexuality+cover.png Member Research - The Space Between April 2, 2024 Abstract: Formal induction to purity culture often begins with an event that mirrors the opening of a rite of passage and is expected to culminate in heterosexual marriage, a ceremony that acts as a reintegration ritual and completes the rite. The author employs her positionality as a biracial Indigenous woman raised in purity culture to bring an Indigenous perspective to this topic. She uses autoethnography and an ethnographic look at data from a large-scale qualitative research project about purity culture’s outcomes to argue that the intensity of the separation rite that introduced the participant to purity culture, the amount of time spent in a liminal purity culture space, the participants’ acceptance of the role of ‘ritual agent,’ and how purity culture ‘ends’ for a participant all significantly impact the way they experience purity culture. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-9en4e-llkyp-e558z-sslzd monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/512302cb-4ec5-4a10-8b67-1ac56e394fcf/fsr-logo-opengraph2.png Member Research - Female Masturbation as Resistance January 11, 2019 Excerpt: I’ve been wondering about how young women exercise their moral agency, especially regarding their sexuality, when this shame-inducing “harm and damage” rhetoric is the norm. I think female masturbation is a compelling act of resistance, as it disrupts significant aspects of what purity culture teaches about women’s desire. In a culture where women are taught to be passive recipients, to want sex not for pleasure but as a means to relationship—and any act of sex is damaging to her and her relationships—masturbation is one way for a woman to exercise her moral decision-making. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-9en4e-llkyp-e558z-na385 monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/a75c8a0d-461e-44bf-aefa-272388e3f68a/theology+and+sexuality.jpeg Member Research - Purity culture and the limits of queer evangelicalism March 29, 2024 Abstract: Taking purity culture as a framework for understanding evangelical approaches to sexual ethics, 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. To do so, we approach the construction of queer celibacy through a theology of sexuality and narratives of celibacy within purity culture. We constellate stories from gay- and lesbian-identifying evangelicals to question the limits of queer celibacy. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-9en4e-llkyp-e558z monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/434d8c41-83ca-4994-834b-4889b1b7e9a4/Canopy-Logo.jpg Member Research - Crisis Pregnancy Centers July 8, 2022 Excerpt: Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs) have periodically received attention in mainstream media outlets for their religious affiliations and anti-abortion positions. They claim to offer free counseling and pregnancy tests. Once inside the clinic, the person seeking medical advice will instead be handed information about the trauma and pain of abortion. Abrams and Bergengruen point out that CPCs now use some form of “pregnancy care center” in their name to avoid being recognized as one of the overtly anti-abortion clinics. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-9en4e-llkyp monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/c26a71f6-8935-4bab-a838-976e01e08e5d/constellations.png Member Research - Your Misogyny is Not a Cultural Difference Oct 23, 2024 Excerpt: The argument we make in this article is the argument our bodies make in protest to the violence that stretches forever across gendered religious landscapes. This violence bleeds out into the political, the social, and the cultural dimensions of our lives. Misogyny rooted in religious systems answers only to a male God, leaving little room for voices of dissent. To believe that the kinds of gendered violence happening in religious contexts are limited to those specific spaces might make readers feel better. However, religious spaces are not self-contained. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g-9en4e monthly 0.5 2025-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/ad109e14-9095-426f-b829-c697d20d84d3/theology+sexuality+cover.png Member Research - Graham Crackers and Good Girls April 9, 2024 Abstract: In this work, we make a historical and theoretical case for expanding the conceptual reach of purity culture’s control of bodies assigned female at birth to include body shape and size. We utilize the visceral, embodied language of an original poetic work from Rebekah Vickery, one of the authors, to weave experiential knowledge into our analysis. We utilize the theories of biopower and stigma, as well as the materiality of the female body, to understand purity culture’s control and discipline of the female body in and through three mechanisms: mind–body dualism, white supremacist patriarchy, and appetite control. https://www.puritycultureresearchcollective.com/member-research/blog-post-title-one-l3fsc-s7j7g monthly 0.5 2024-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/672005a6bd8b8e64f26d48ea/fb3fa815-2843-4524-bd19-1820b275ee38/cover_issue_19_en_US.png Member Research - Purity Culture’s Racist Fruit December 1, 2021 Abstract: Four dollar toast retro photo booth typewriter. Raclette air plant truffaut, single-origin coffee iceland freegan in duis sint minim ut gorpcore gochujang proident. Hell of dolore meh selvage gastropub hoodie affogato small batch. Hammock Brooklyn distillery coloring book. Art party drinking vinegar +1, direct trade chicharrones PBR&B tumeric small batch ramps aliqua health goth same taiyaki in. 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