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Webinar with Live Audience, Guest Speaker

Lectures: Dr. Sara Moslener (Central Michigan University) will discuss 'Race, Sex Abuse and Purity Culture in the Southern Baptist Convention.'

Tue
5
Oct
5:30 PM Oct. 5, 2021
Bryant Room 209 (Auditorium), Bryant Hall, Oxford Campus
Open to the public

Dr. Sara Moslener, author of Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence (Oxford University Press, 2015), writes about the Southern Baptist Convention's focus on abstinence-only education.  Her work continues to examine the intersections of "purity culture," male evangelicalism, race, and sex abuse.  

Please contact Dr. Mary Thurlkill (maryt@olemiss.edu) for information about 'reading groups' that discuss Dr. Moslener's writings in the weeks leading up to her visit.  

For assistance related to a disability, contact Dr. Mary Thurlkill: maryt@olemiss.edu | 6622027536

Event posted by: maryt@olemiss.edu

Sponsored by: Department of Philosophy and Religion