Mar 22, 2024
Trigger warning: This episode contains stories of racial violence and sexualized racial violence.
In this episode we deep dive Purity Culture's origin story, and its connection with America's racial history.
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Sara Moslener is a
lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Anthropology, and
Religion at
Central Michigan University where she teaches courses on the
history of religious and racial
discrimination in the United States. She has been studying
evangelical purity culture for over 15
years and has numerous publications including the book
Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and
American Adolescence (Oxford University Press:
2015). She hosts the new series Pure
White: Sexual Purity and White Supremacy with Axis
Mundi Media. Connect with her on Twitter and Substack.