Sara Moslener - "After Purity"
Schedule
Fri May 08 2026 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637 | Chicago, IL
Sara Moslener will discuss "After Purity: Race, Sex, and Religion in White Christian America." A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. At the Co-op.
About the book: In "After Purity," purity scholar Sara Moslener conducts a nuanced investigation of purity culture in white evangelical Christianity, revealing its profound impact on gender, sexuality, race, and national identity in the United States. Moslener shares exclusive stories of participants from her research on the After Purity Project to discuss how purity culture affected women—and particularly women of color—who grew up in the evangelical church. These stories depict how white supremacy has a hand in constructing idealized “traditional” or “biblical” views of family, white racial identity, sexuality, gender expression, and religion, and how our physical bodies are situated within systems of power and oppression. "After Purity" provides a window into the world of white evangelicalism and how its leaders and political allies have manufactured socio-sexual panic to justify the elimination of sexual and religious diversity that thrive in a flourishing democracy.
About the author: Sara Moslener 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 and creator of the podcast "Pure White: Sexual Purity and White Supremacy." She lives in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, with her best friend and soulmate, Gibson the Chug.
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5751 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL, United States, Illinois 60637
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