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

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

Navigating Evangelical Affect

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

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

Female Masturbation as Resistance

Responding to the “harm and damage rhetoric” of 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

Crisis Pregnancy Centers

How evangelical purity culture funded thousands of anti-abortion clinics.

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.

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