This volume is a collection of cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and creative essays that establish a new approach to the study of evangelical purity culture. It is a critical starting point for anyone seeking to understand this movement or begin their own research.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Evangelical Purity Culture and Its Discontents 1. 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 2. The Space Between: Liminal Time within Purity Culture 3. Pure to Purpose Pipeline: Socializing Purity in White Women's International Aid Work 4. Navigating Evangelical Affect: Convictions, Promises, and Dissonance in Adolescent Adherence to Purity Teaching 5. Women's Sexuality, Embodiment and Evangelicalism 6. 'Daddy I Do': Purity Balls, Evangelicals Ideas of Virginity, Family Values, and Whiteness 7. Purity Culture and the Limits of Queer Evangelicalism 8. When Purity Cannot Save Us: On Matter Out of Place and Democratic Hope Bibliography
