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How the 'extreme abstinence' of the purity movement created a sense of shame in evangelical women

  • Written by Julie Ingersoll, Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Florida
Purity culture promotes sexual abstinence before marriage.charlene trapp/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Millennial evangelicals are speaking out about the heightened emphasis on sexual purity that characterized their upbringing in that subculture.

Joshua Harris, a former pastor who became one of the most public faces of the purity culture movement in the...

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