Elizabeth Shively

Elizabeth Shively teaches in the Department of Sociology at Sam Houston State University. Her research interests include women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, religious studies, and youth studies. Her work has been published recently in the journal Girlhood Studies and the volume Visual Encounters in the Study of Rural Childhoods. Her current book project examines Christian courtship in the 21st century.

Christian ‘Purity’ Guru’s Loss of Faith May Signal a Coming Reckoning For Conservative Christianity

Elizabeth Shively

Attitudes about sex have come to signal a person or group’s attitudes about modernity itself. Arguments about gender roles, birth control, abortion, sex education, and LGBTQ rights have become central to the religious and political identity of American Christians.

New Book Details Harms of Evangelical ‘Purity’ Movement and the Obstacle to Change

Elizabeth Shively

In 'Pure,' Klein tells the stories of women wrestling with anxiety, sexual dysfunction, crises of religious identity, and even a kind of religious-based PTSD.