Member Research

PCRC members operate in more than a dozen disciplines and our work appears in both academic and public-facing spheres.

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Karly Poyner-Smith 4/3/25 Karly Poyner-Smith 4/3/25

Rhetorics of Impurities

ExVangelicalism as Excavating and Encountering Purity

Allison Murray 4/3/25 Allison Murray 4/3/25

Building Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

White American Evangelical Complementarian Theology, 1970-2010

Karly Poyner-Smith 4/3/25 Karly Poyner-Smith 4/3/25

“You Are Not the Victim Here”

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

Kat Klements 4/3/25 Kat Klements 4/3/25

The One Ring Model

Rape Culture Beliefs are Linked to Purity Culture Beliefs

Liv Schultz 4/3/25 Liv Schultz 4/3/25

Navigating Evangelical Affect

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

Kat Klements 4/3/25 Kat Klements 4/3/25

Nobody Wants to Date a Whore

Rape-Supportive Messages in Women-Directed Christian Dating Books

Tessi Muskrat 4/3/25 Tessi Muskrat 4/3/25

The Space Between

Liminal time within purity culture.

Lauren D. Sawyer 4/3/25 Lauren D. Sawyer 4/3/25

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.

Victoria Houser 4/3/25 Victoria Houser 4/3/25

Your Misogyny is Not a Cultural Difference

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

Rebekah Vickery 4/3/25 Rebekah Vickery 4/3/25

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 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