PCRC Projects
Current Projects
the post-purity healing and recovery database
This project seeks to centralize inclusive purity culture healing and recovery healers into one common database so folx can find tangible purity-informed healing for their trauma.
check out the site here!
The database is currently not ready, as we are outreaching to purity healers. You can sign-up on the site for an update when the project will be ready.
interrogating whiteness, mission work, and purity
How did the impact of purity culture find its way to Uganda?
This is a project of one of our affiliated researchers, Jenny McGrath (find out more on the ‘Researchers’ page). Jenny is seeking to interrogate the connection between the identity of white cisgender women who grew up in purity culture, and their decisions to be missionaries abroad, particularly in Uganda.
find out more here
purity culture impacts on race/ethnicity and mental health
How Did Purity Culture Impact Diverse Ethnic/Racial People?
This is a project of one of our affiliated researchers, Madison Natarajan (find out more on the ‘Researchers’ page). This project seeks to understand how purity culture impacted the mental health and racial identity development of individuals who exist in diverse ethnic/racial identities, particularly interested in BIPOC experiences.
find the survey here
Past Work
Religion and Sexual Abuse Conference
In March 2022, eight members of the PCRC traveled to the University of California Riverside for the Religion and Sexual Abuse Project Conference.
