9780199987764-0199987769-Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence

Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence

ISBN-13: 9780199987764
ISBN-10: 0199987769
Edition: 1
Author: Sara Moslener
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 232 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199987764
ISBN-10: 0199987769
Edition: 1
Author: Sara Moslener
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 232 pages

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Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence (ISBN-13: 9780199987764 and ISBN-10: 0199987769), written by authors Sara Moslener, was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Living (Christian Books & Bibles) books. You can easily purchase or rent Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Living books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.55.

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First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received considerable attention from a wide range of media outlets, religious leaders, and feminist critics. Virgin Nation offers a history of this movement that goes beyond the Religious Right, demonstrating a link between sexual purity rhetoric and fears of national decline that has shaped American ideas about morality since the nineteenth century.

Concentrating on two of today's best known purity organizations, True Loves Waits and Silver Ring Thing, Sara Moslener's investigation reveals that purity work over the last two centuries has developed in concert with widespread fears of changing traditional gender roles and sexual norms, national decline, and global apocalypse. Moslener highlights a number of points in U.S. history when evangelical beliefs and values have seemed to provide viable explanations for and solutions to widespread cultural crises, resulting in the growth of their cultural and political influence. By asserting a causal relationship between sexual immorality, national decline, and apocalyptic anticipation, leaders have shaped a purity rhetoric that positions Protestant evangelicalism as the salvation of American civilization.

From the purity reformers of the nineteenth century to fundamentalist leaders such as Billy Graham and Carl F.H. Henry, Moslener illuminates the evolution of a strain of purity rhetoric that runs throughout Protestant evangelicalism.

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