From Purity Rings to Shooting Your Dog: How Christian Womanhood Went MAGA

About this episode

The episode explores the evolution of Christian womanhood from the 1990s purity culture to contemporary trends influenced by political and social changes.

A Saved By The City Crossover Event! We're back! ALMOST. We recently joined another RNS podcast to look at how Christian womanhood has changed—and not in the ways we could have expected. In this episode of Complexified, host Amanda Henderson talks with us about the shift from 1990s purity culture to today’s trad wives, MAGA moms, and warnings against “toxic empathy.” The three of us unpack how pandemic burnout, influencer culture, and widening political gender gaps reshaped the ideal Christian woman — and why empathy itself has become a flashpoint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Amanda Henderson

Topics covered

• Christian womanhood
• purity culture
• MAGA moms
• influencer culture
• political gender gaps
• empathy

Keywords

• Christianity
• purity rings
• trad wives
• toxic empathy
• pandemic burnout
• gender politics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Religion News Service

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