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020			_a0199987769 (hardback)
020			_a9780199987764 (hardback)
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100	1		_aMoslener, Sara, _eauthor. _9284043
245	1	0	_aVirgin nation : _bsexual purity and American adolescence / _cSara Moslener.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bOxford University Press, _c[2015]
300			_ax, 219 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aOutgrowth of the author's thesis (Claremont Graduate University, 2009) under title: By God's design : sexual abstinence in the United States, 1979-present.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 195-207) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Sexual purity and national security -- Sexual purity and civilization work in the 19th century -- From adolescence to lost innocence: religious revival and sexual deviance in the Cold War era -- Making family values -- New purity revolution -- Performing sexual purity in the media age -- Conclusion: Fear and accommodation in the contemporary purity culture.
520			_a"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"--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aChastity. _989576
650		0	_aSex _zUnited States _xHistory. _9284044
650		0	_aSexual abstinence _xReligious aspects _xChristianity. _995248
650		0	_aSocial movements _zUnited States _xHistory. _9209518
650		0	_aSocial values _zUnited States _xHistory. _9284045
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