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

这个项目将探讨当代福音派关于性纯洁的话语，潜在的有害影响，以及英国的教会应该做些什么。具体来说，它将涉及到数据的收集（焦点小组和资源关于福音派基督教的性纯洁），并使用构建的精神创伤框架进行检查。这对英国福音派教会——即那些在福音派联盟成员下联合起来的教会——的影响将被评估，一种指导基督教性教育的教牧神学将被阐明。除了利用新兴的创伤神学学术领域，以及跨越学术和非学术对话的精神虐待的同时关注，本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有关，并在最近关于教会会众类似问题的公开报告中高度流行。

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.