The legacy of purity culture: Spiritual care and discourses of sexual purity in contemporary evangelical Christianity

这个项目将探索当代福音派关于性纯洁的讨论，这一点的潜在有害影响，以及英国境内的教会因此应该做些什么。具体地说，它将涉及收集数据(福音派基督教中性纯洁的焦点小组和资源)，并使用构建的精神创伤框架进行审查。然后将评估这对英国福音派教会的影响--即那些在福音派联盟成员下联合起来的福音派教会--并将阐明指导基督教性行为教学的田园神学。除了借鉴创伤神学这一新兴的学术领域，以及对跨越学术和非学术对话的精神虐待的同时关注，这项研究将与学术宗教研究中对性别歧视、性虐待和基于性别的暴力的日益关注相关，并在最近关于教会会众类似问题的公共报告中非常流行。

This project will explore contemporary evangelical discourse on sexual purity, the potential harmful implications of this, and what churches within the UK should do as a result. Specifically, it will involve the collection of data (focus groups and resources on sexual purity in evangelical Christianity) to be examined using a constructed framework of spiritual trauma. The implications of this for UK evangelical churches - namely, those united under membership of the Evangelical Alliance - will then be evaluated, and a pastoral theology to guide Christian teaching on sexuality will be articulated. As well as drawing on the emerging academic field of trauma theology, and a concurrent concern with spiritual abuse that straddles academic and non-academic dialogue, this study will be pertinent to the increasing focus on sexism, sexual abuse and gender-based violence in academic religious studies, and highly current within recent public reports on similar issues in church congregations.