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1 Purity Culture Research Collective, “Purity Culture Research Collective.”
2 Sara Moslener includes the True Love Waits pledge from which the phrase ‘biblical marriage relationship’ originates. See Moslener, Virgin Nation, 109. Painter, “Why ‘White’ Should Be Capitalized.”
3 Freitas, Sex and the Soul. Freitas describes purity culture in Chapter 4, “Evangelical Purity Culture: Its Princesses and Warriors.”
4 Brumley, “True Love Waits.” To read about Silver Ring Thing, see pages 130–154. Moslener, Virgin Nation. A sample of works from these authors include: Kirgiss and Stenzel, Sex Has a Price Tag; Ludy and Ludy, When God Writes Your Love Story; Arterburn, Stoeker, and Yorkey, Every Young Man’s Battle; Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye; Gresh, And the Bride Wore White.
5 Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement.
6 Anderson, Damaged Goods.
7 Moslener, Virgin Nation; House, “The Afterlife of White Evangelical Purity Culture.”
8 Moultrie, Passionate and Pious; Street, “For Purity’s Sake”; Natarajan et al., “Decolonizing Purity Culture”; Cooper, Eloquent Rage; Tamura Lomax, “#BlackSkinWhiteSin.”
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Kathryn House
Kathryn House, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Leadership Studies and Practical Theology and Chair of the Rev. Dr. Lee Barker Professorship of Leadership Studies at Meadville Lombard Theological School. She holds a Ph.D. and MDiv from Boston University School of Theology. House is ordained through the American Baptist Churches USA and Alliance of Baptists.
Sara Moslener
Sara Moslener, Ph.D. is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Religion at Central Michigan University. She is the author of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence (Oxford: 2015) and After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America (forthcoming Beacon Press, 2025).