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Dr. Sara Moslener: “After Purity: Race, Sex and Religion in White Christian America”
Join us on November 7 at noon (MST) for a conversation with Dr. Sara Moslener!
She’s the lead of the After Purity Project, co-editor of Evangelical Purity Culture and its Discontents, and the forthcoming (Dec 2025) After Purity: Race, Sex and Religion in White Christian America.
Watch this presentation on Secular AZ’s YouTube channel.
Dr. Moslener is a writer, researcher, and 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, which demonstrates how sexual purity campaigns and rhetoric have been used by white Protestants since the 19th century to obtain greater political power and cultural influence.