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035			_a(OCoLC)1560067222
037			_bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 _nSAN 201-3975
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100	1		_aMoslener, Sara, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAfter purity : _brace, sex, and religion in white Christian America / _cSara Moslener ; foreword by Linda Kay Klein.
264		1	_aBoston, MA : _bBeacon Press, _c[2025]
300			_axiv, 182 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_aForeword statement of responsibility from cover.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"An intersectional analysis of evangelical purity culture's influence on gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the UnitedStates. With a foreword by Linda Kay Klein, author of "Pure : Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free". In After Purity, purity scholar Sara Moslener conducts a nuanced investigation of purity culture in white evangelical Christianity, revealing its profound impact on gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the United States. Moslener shares exclusive stories of participants from her research on the After Purity Project to discuss how purity culture affected women -- particularly white women -- who grew up in the evangelical church. These stories depict how white supremacy has a hand in constructing idealized 'traditional' or 'biblical' views of family, white racial identity, sexuality, gender expression, and religion, and how our physical bodies are situated within systems of power and oppression. With a blendof history, current research, and sustained analysis, Moslener explores how white evangelicalism has become so politically powerful, why gender and sexuality are positioned at the center of debate, and how those debates aim to obscure deeper histories of white evangelical racism. She describes the full disturbing effect of the 'True LoveWaits' movement and how purity teachings displaced all other forms of religious education in evangelicalism. From her interviewees in the After Purity Project, she shares stories of oppressive personal piety, sexual repression, disembodiment, self-hatred, mandatory hetero-normativity, and the many layers of obligation and shame in sexuality before reaching adulthood and navigating their way out of the church. Moslener also describes her own story of being a teen advocatefor purity culture to becoming a researcher, scholar, and advocate for people harmed by purity. After Purity provides a window into theworld of white evangelicalism and how its leaders and political allies have manufactured socio-sexual panic to justify the elimination of sexual and religious diversity that thrive in a flourishing democracy."-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen in Christianity.
650		0	_aEvangelicalism.
650		0	_aChristian women _xSexual behavior.
650		0	_aSex _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		0	_aWomen's rights _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
650		0	_aRace relations _xReligious aspects _xChristianity.
700	1		_aKlein, Linda Kay, _ewriter of foreword.
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