Purity Culture's Racist Fruit: Centering the Voices of Black Womanists and Feminists in the Deconstruction of Purity Culture

Olivia Schultz

doi:10.26443/arc.v49i.292

Centering the Voices of Black Womanists and Feminists in the Deconstruction of Purity Culture

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Olivia Schultz Concordia University

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https://doi.org/10.26443/arc.v49i.292

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2021-12-01

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Schultz, O. (2021). Purity Culture’s Racist Fruit: Centering the Voices of Black Womanists and Feminists in the Deconstruction of Purity Culture. Arc: The Journal of the School of Religious Studies, 49, 1–47. https://doi.org/10.26443/arc.v49i.292

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Vol. 49 (2021): Arc: Religion, Resistance, and Racialization

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Purity Culture's Racist Fruit