Purity culture, bodies, and beliefs : stories of religious trauma /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Houser, Victoria (Editor), Ramler, Mari (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2026]
Subjects:	Psychological abuse > Religious aspects > Christianity. Psychic trauma > Religious aspects > Christianity. Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity. Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction : bodies and beliefs in religious rhetoric / Victoria Houser and Mari Ramler
Repainting God's temple : tattoo as post-traumatic rhetoric and healing practice / Chaim McNamee
A working brain, womb, and mouth : the female body in Bob Jones University's purity culture / Camille Kaminski Lewis
On rhetoric, religious trauma, disability, and queerness : confessions of a love letter from a disabled, nonbinary queer / Ada Hubrig
Confession as apology and testimony : disordered eating and compulsive truth-telling / Hannah Benefiel
Orange-flower water and olive oil : rhetorical autonomy in stories of spiritual deconstruction / Kylie Sommer
Reworking religious trauma through ritual / Joseph Richards and Elaine Schnabel
When purity culture provides cover for sexual trauma you later remember : an autorhetorical reflection / DS Leiter
It's never enough : purity culture and surveillance / Tessi Muskrat
Blood and shame / Susan Garza
Intervening in purity culture : a social responsibility / Julie Sisler and Mary Pitts
The body of trauma and the body of Christ / Matthew Boedy
Becoming multiplicitous : an autoethnography of religious rigidity and queer identity / Christopher Peace
Why Mennonites can't dance and other tales of white settlers : moving toward embodied healing for collective liberation / Amanda K Gross
When the body remembers : the body as a site of trauma and memory / Carrie Drake
Theologizing violence : diasporic bodily Toromas and the sediments of Iranian Islamic interrogative culture / Haleh Mir Miri.