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

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.