Purity Culture Bodies And Beliefs
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Purity Culture, Bodies, and Beliefs
Author: Victoria Houser
language: en
Publisher: PSU Department of English
Release Date: 2026-05-12
Purity Culture, Bodies, and Beliefs confronts the enduring effects of religious trauma by centering the body as both a site of harm and a source of healing. This collection offers a necessary space for truth telling, grief, and renewal. Bringing together critical autoethnographies and theoretical reflection, this volume examines how purity culture intersects with sexuality, gender, race, ability, class, neurodiversity, and spirituality. Contesting evangelicalism’s focus on bodily autonomy and sexual politics, contributors explore how embodied storytelling becomes a means of resistance and transformation. Addressing topics such as reproductive rights in fundamentalist contexts, eugenics-inspired rhetoric linking queerness and disability, and ritual practices like tattooing, each chapter testifies to the ways individuals remember, resist, and reclaim wholeness after harm. By foregrounding lived experience, the book shifts the study of religious rhetoric from theology and persuasion toward embodiment and trauma, illuminating not only what religious discourse does but what it costs. Scholars and students of religion, feminist and queer studies, and rhetoric—as well as activists engaged in justice and healing work—will find in this volume both critical insight and a call to action. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Hannah Benefiel, Mathew Boedy, Carrie Drake, Susan Garza, Amanda K. Gross, Ada Hubrig, Deborah Leiter, Camille Kaminski Lewis, Chaim McNamee, Haleh Mir Miri, Tessi Muskrat, Christopher Peace, Mary Pitts, Joseph Richards, Elaine Schnabel, Julie J. Sisler, and Kylie Sommer.
Rape Culture on Campus
Author: Meredith Minister
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2018-09-15
Rape Culture on Campus explores how existing responses to sexual violence on college and university campuses fail to address religious and cultural dynamics that make rape appear normal, dynamics imbedded in social expectations around race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Rather than dealing with these complex dynamics, responses to sexual violence on college campuses focus on implementing changes in one-time workshops. As an alternative to quick solutions, this book argues that long-term classroom interventions are necessary in order to understand religious and cultural complexities and effectively respond to this crisis. Written for educators, administrators, activists, and students, Rape Culture on Campus provides an accessible cultural studies approach to rape culture that complements existing social science approaches, an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of rape culture, and offers practical, classroom-based interventions.
Unruly Souls
Author: Kristin M. Peterson
language: en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date: 2022-07-15
Introduction -- 1. Dismantling the Hierarchy of Souls -- 2. #KissShameBye: Textual Critiques of Evangelical Purity Culture -- 3. Bold and Beautiful: Images of Unruly Bodies Destabilize Pious Muslim Icon -- 4. A Seat at the Table: Podcasts Facilitate Dialogue for Marginalized Christian Perspectives -- 5. "We Them Barbarians": Digital Videos Creatively Rearticulate Muslim Identity --Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.