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""Through the lens of white Evangelical purity culture, Lauren Sawyer's Growing Up Pure showcases teens and even children as full, accountable moral and sexual agents in a sexist, heterosexist, cisgender, racist culture. Like all of us, children and teens are victims of ideals from which they also actively benefit, from which they can never fully escape (and so end up recapitulating), and against which they also push back in creative and resistant ways. Focused on white Evangelical ethics yet widely applicable, meticulously argued and footnoted yet highly accessible, Growing Up Pure invites readers not just to rethink Christian ethics of sexuality in light of children's dignity as moral agents, but also to ponder what Christian ethics would look like if it renounced moral purity as an aim and rejected perfect adherence to moral norms as a human possibility.""--Cristina L.H. Traina, Fordham University

""Through the lens of white Evangelical purity culture, Lauren Sawyer's Growing Up Pure showcases teens and even children as full, accountable moral and sexual agents in a sexist, heterosexist, cisgender, racist culture. Like all of us, children and teens are victims of ideals from which they also actively benefit, from which they can never fully escape (and so end up recapitulating), and against which they also push back in creative and resistant ways. Focused on white Evangelical ethics yet widely applicable, meticulously argued and footnoted yet highly accessible, Growing Up Pure invites readers not just to rethink Christian ethics of sexuality in light of children's dignity as moral agents, but also to ponder what Christian ethics would look like if it renounced moral purity as an aim and rejected perfect adherence to moral norms as a human possibility."" - Cristina L.H. Traina, Fordham University

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Lauren D. Sawyer is Affiliate Faculty at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology.

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