There Are So Many Amazing Individuals Who Have Created Amazing Resources.
As such, this list is not exhaustive!
Religious Trauma Resources
The Reclaimation Collective is a space for individuals who have experienced Religious Trauma or Adverse Religious Experience. RC has a tab for religious trauma therapists!
Leaving the Fold is one of the first books written about religious trauma.
The Religious Trauma Institute hosts conversations for clinicians, researchers, advocates and survivors on approaches to religious trauma.
Purity-Related Podcasts
Pure to Pieces Podcast is hosted by artist and advocate, Morgan McGill. Morgan interviews researchers, scholars, and survivors of purity culture.
Straight White American Jesus Podcast is hosted by Brad Onishi and Daniel Miller, two ex-pastors who speak about religion and politics.
The Shiloh Podcast is part of The Shiloh Project, which seeks to expose and identify relationships between Christianity and Rape Culture.
Related Reads
Pure was one of the first books written to expose the wide-reaching impacts of purity culture, specifically to white women.
Though not specifically purity culture, Moultrie explores sexuality ministries directed towards single Black women.
#ChurchToo demonstrates how purity inevitably supports rape culture. To support survivors, we must dismantle purity.
This book is connected to the Shiloh Project, seeking to expose rape culture embedded in stories told to teen girls.
This book is also conected to the Shiloh project, seeking to expose the, often normalized, sexual violence against men in the Bible.
For those seeking to understand the racist underpinnings of evangelicalism and its movements, in this book, Anthea Butler outlines this history.
In this book, DeGroat highlights how Western evangelicalism has fostered leaders that have narcissistic tendencies.
Nadia Bolz-Weber is a Lutheran Pastor that is passionate about embracing sexuality as a way of embracing faith.
In this book, Brittney Cooper speaks, in part, about her healing and resistance from Christian sexuality teachings.
Sex Empowering Media
Sex Education is a show on Netflix that where highschool students explore various conversations related to sex and gender identity.
Come as You Are is a book written by sex educator, Emily Nagoski, to explore the complexities of pleasure for individuals with clitorises.
The list of resources listed below are only just some of the great resources out there. If you know others that you would like on this page, email us at postpurityhealing@gmail.com.