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Sara J. Moslener

Sara Moslener is a lecturer in the Department of Religion and Philosophy at Central Michigan University. Her first book Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence is available from Oxford University Press. She is currently at work on her next project examining the racial origins of sexual purity.

Archive, Culture, Sexuality/GenderFebruary 27, 2018

#MeToo and the Problem with the “The Billy Graham Rule”

By Sara J. Moslener

Billy Graham, Sunday School teacher, failed salesman, and cold-war fear-monger died last week at the…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Books, Sexuality/GenderJune 29, 2015

Evangelical “Sexual Purity” Is Not About Sex—It’s About Power

By Sara J. Moslener

A Q&A with author Sara Moslener about “Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence”

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