After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America - Hardcover

$28.95

After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America - Hardcover

Name: After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America - Hardcover
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SKU: 9780807014998
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by Sara Moslener

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by Sara Moslener (Author), Linda Kay Klein (Foreword by)

An intersectional analysis of evangelical purity culture's influence on gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the United States.

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 blend of 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 Love Waits" 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 advocate for purity culture to becoming a researcher, scholar, and advocate for people harmed by purity.

After Purity provides a window into the world 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.

Author Biography

Sara Moslener is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Religion at Central Michigan University. She is the author of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence and creator of the podcast Pure White: Sexual Purity and White Supremacy.She lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, with her best friend and soulmate, Gibson the Chug.

Number of Pages: 200

Dimensions: 0.91 x 8.61 x 5.61 IN

Publication Date: December 09, 2025

ISBN	9780807014998
Author	Sara Moslener
Publisher	Beacon Press
Genre	News & politics and Religion & spirituality
Format	Hardcover
Published	December 2025
Language	ENG- English
Pages	200
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print