Current Research from the R&SAP team

Samah Choudhury and Juliane Hammer, eds. 2024. Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities: Towards Awareness and Accountability, Boston: Boston University Press.

“Sources of Support,” Inform (UK), November 14, 2024.

Mariana Restrepo, “The Heartwood-Northwestern Symposium: A Groundbreaking Gathering Centering Survivors of Sexual Violence in Buddhism,” The Lion’s Roar, 2024.

Ann Gleig, Amy Langenberg, and Sarah Jacoby, “Reflection on Heartwood / Northwestern Symposium on Sexual Violence in Buddhism: Centering Survivors Voices,” The Shiloh Project, November 4, 2024.

Sari Horwitz, Dana Hedgpeth, Emmanuel Martinez, Scott Higham, and Salwan Georges, “In the Name of God,” The Washington Post, [Exclusive, covering the research of Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher], May 29, 2024.

Holly Gayley, “Tibetan Buddhism in America,” [contains a substantial section on abuse], Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism, edited by Ann Gleig and Scott Mitchell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.

Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, “Resources for Confronting Abuse in Spiritual Communities,” Lion’s Roar, 2024.

Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, “Sexual Ethics and Healthy Boundaries in the Wake of Teacher Abuse,” Lion’s Roar, 2024.

Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, “Would the Buddha have believed you?,” The Shiloh Podcast, 2024.

Sara Moslener, “Pure White,” An 8-part documentary podcast series about sexual purity and white supremacy. First episode, December 4, 2023.

Interview with Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, “Supporting Survivors of Abuse,” Dharmadatta Community, November 5, 2023.

Amanda Lucia, “Flooding the Web: Absence-Presence and the Media Strategies of Nithyananda’s Digital Empire,” pp. 271-297. In Gurus and Media: Sound, Image, Machine, Text and the Digital, edited by Jacob Copeman, Arkotong Longkumer, and Koonal Duggal. London: KCL Press, 2023.

Amy Langenberg, “Real Bhikṣus Don’t Have Gṛhastha Sex: Revisiting Male Celibacy in Classical South Asian Buddhism.” In Buddhist Masculinities, edited by Megan Bryson and Kevin Buckelew. Columbia University Press, 2023.

Katie Collins Scott, “Catholic Clergy Abuse Survivors of Color Endure Compounded Trauma,” National Catholic Reporter, September 12, 2023 (quoting Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher).

Sara Moslener “Purity and Violence in the Southern Baptist Convention” Secular Coalition for Arizona. September 15, 2023.

Classical Ideas Podcast, “Episode 270: Evangelical Purity Culture with Dr. Sara Moslener,” July 13, 2023.

Molly Olmstead, “Tim Scott’s Purity Culture: Why the 2024 candidate made his virginity key to his political persona,” Slate Magazine, June 2, 2023 (quoting Sara Moslener)

Sara Moslener, “Like a Virgin: The Story Evangelicals Told About Virginity,” Where Do We Go from Here, podcast, March 23, 2023.

Sushmita Pathak, “How Kailasa, A Fake Hindu Nation, Conned Millions,” The Juggernaut, March 20, 2023 (quoting Amanda Lucia).

Johanna Stiebert, “Researching Abuse in Contexts of Buddhism,” A workshop report on Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg’s workshop at University of Leeds, January 25, 2023.

Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, “Abuse in Buddhist Contexts,” The Shiloh Project Podcast, 2023.

Sara Moselener, “White Women’s Bodies and the Dilemma of Purity Culture Recovery,” The Revealer, February 7, 2023.

Sarah Stankorb, “How History Shaped Evangelical Womanhood” In Polite Company, January 10, 2023. (quoting Sara Moslener)

Straight White American Jesus, “J6 Two Years Later” January 6, 2023, (quoting Sara Moslener).

Kathleen Holscher, “The Trouble of an Indian Diocese: Catholic Priests and Sexual Abuse in Colonized Places,” Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories (eds. Tisa Wenger and Sylvester Johnson). New York University Press, 2022.

Minyi Jiang, “White American and Christian Nationalism,” December 2022, (quoting Sara Moslener), December 2022,

Holly Gayley and Somtso Bhum, “Parody and Pathos: Sexual Transgression by 'Fake' Lamas in Tibetan Short Stories,” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, no. 63, Avril 2022, pp. 62-94.

Amy Langenberg, “Ethical Reading and Buddhist #MeToo,” Sakhyadita, vol. 30, Winter 2022.

Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans, “Listen to the Survivors,” The Christian Century, December 28, 2022 (quoting Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher).

Amy Langenberg, “The Vinaya Pitaka,” Lion’s Roar, 2022.

Jenna Kunze, “New Map Illustrates Catholic Sexual Abuse in Indian Country” (covering: Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher’s project “Desolate Country” for Native News Online, November 29, 2022).

Kaleb Roedel, “Catholic Church ‘Dumped’ Abusive Priests onto Tribal Communities, Database Shows” (covering: Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher’s project “Desolate Country” for KUNR / NPR Rocky Mountain West, October 25, 2022).

Mary Annette Pember, “‘Desolate Country’: Abusive Priests Clustered at Mission Schools” (covering: Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher’s project “Desolate Country” for Indian Country Today, October 20, 2022).

Anna Beahm, “The racist link between purity culture and Christian Nationalism and why it matters in elections.” November 8, 2022 (quoting Sara Moslener)

“Deep Dive: Pope Francis Visits Canada to Apologize,” Inside the Vatican podcast, July 21, 2022 (quoting Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher).

Mary Annette Pember, “Pope Francis Apologizes for Churches’ Role in Canadian Indian Residential Schools,” Indian Country Today, April 1, 2022 (quoting Kathleen Holscher).

Amanda Lucia, “The Contemporary Guru Field,” Religion Compass, e12427, 2022. January 2022. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12427

Boyung Lee, “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy for Gender, Sexuality, and Wholeness in Religious Education.” Religious Education, 116, no. 3 (2021). DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2021.1917852.

Adelakun Abimbola, Performing Power in Nigeria: Politics, Identity, and Pentecostalism, Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Keun-Joo Christine Pae, “Teaching Ethics of Sex with Tenderness: Religious Literacy and Sexual Literacy in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Religious Education Religious Education 116 no. 3 (2021): 204—207.

Amy Langenberg, “What Do Buddhists Think About Sex?” In Buddhism in Five Minutes, edited by Elizabeth J. Harris. Equinox Publishing, 2021.

Devi Abramson, “It’s Back: Purity Culture 2.0, Gen Z Style,” Religion News Service, December 2021  (quoting Sara Moselener, The After Purity Project)

Renee Roden, “Brittany Spears: An Icon for Purity Culture’s Wounded Women,” Religion News Service, August 2021  (quoting Sara Moselener, The After Purity Project)

Amy Langenberg, “Late Night Phone Alerts and Other Intrusions: What to Expect When You Write about Sexual Violation in Religion,” The Shiloh Project, May 4, 2021.

Amanda Lucia, “Manufacturing Consent: Creating Hierarchies in the Guru-Disciple Relationship,” Sacred Matters, April 4, 2021.

Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, “Basic Goodness,” Buddhism and Sexual Abuse, Radio Interview with Tapestry, CBC, a Canadian radio news-service, March 30, 2021, LISTEN HERE

Jack Downey, “‘Amplifying Survivors’ Voices’ response to Kathleen McPhillips’ piece on the Australian Royal Commission’s Report on Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse,” The Religious Studies Project, March 12, 2021.

Ann Gleig and Amy Paris Langenberg, “Collaboration as Care: Teaching Sexual Abuse in American Buddhism,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 145-147.

Juliane Hammer, “Gender-Based Violence and Muslim Communities: Trauma Processing through Art,” Religious Studies News, March 9, 2021.

Jack Downey and Kathleen Holscher, “Native American Communities and the Clerical Abuse Crisis,” Fordham University, February 26, 2021, WATCH HERE

Amy Langenberg, “The Buddha Didn’t Teach Consent,” Tricycle, February 23, 2021.

Juliane Hammer, “Working Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities: A Conversation” Boston University, February 17, 2021, WATCH HERE

Lee, Boyung. “Equipping Teachers of Sexual Ethics in Faith Communities.” In Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education, edited by Darryl Stephens and Kate Ott, 157-168. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Nivea Castaneda, (2020), “It’s in Our Nature as Daughters to Protect our Familias…You Know?” The Privacy Rules of Concealing and Revealing Latina Child Sexual Abuse Experiences.” Journal of Family Communication, 21:1, 3-16,

Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, “Sexual Misconduct and Buddhism - Centering Survivors,” The Shiloh Project, November 18, 2020.

Sara J. Moslener, “#2 Purity,” Shame Rules! podcast, October 8, 2020.

Andrea Jain, 2020. “Self Love Club,” Chapter 4 in Peace, Love, Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality, New York: Oxford University Press.

Sexual Abuse framed by Faith or Belief – Exploring boundaries and contexts, Inform Conference, King’s College, London, England, July 22, 2020 (Amanda Lucia responding), WATCH HERE

Abuse in Yoga and Beyond, Conference, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, June 13, 2020 (Andrea Jain, Keynote, Ann Gleig, Amy Langenberg, and Amanda Lucia presenting papers) WATCH HERE

Kathleen Holscher, “Priests that Moved: Catholicism, Colonized Peoples, and Sex Abuse in the U.S. Southwest,” The Revealer, March 1, 2020.

Ann Gleig, “Sexual Violations in American Buddhism: Interpretive Frameworks and Generative Responses,” Ten Thousand Things, March 5, 2020.

Amanda Lucia, “The Guru-Disciple Relationship and the Complications of Consent,” The Revealer, March 2, 2020.

Amy Langenberg, “Reading against the grain: female sexuality in classical South Asian Buddhism,” Religion, October 18, 2019.

Amanda Lucia, “Guru Sex: Charisma, Proxemic Desire, and the Haptic Logics of the Guru-Disciple Relationship, Journal of American Academy of Religion, Vol. 86, Issue 4, December 2018.

Sara J. Moslener, “Sexual Purity, #ChurchToo, and the Crisis of Male Evangelical Leadership,” Religion and Politics, June 12, 2018.

Holly Gayley, “Revisiting the ‘Secret Consort’ (gsang yum) in Tibetan Buddhism,” Religions, June 1, 2018.

Sara J. Moslener, “#MeToo and the Problem with the “The Billy Graham Rule,” Religion Dispatches, February 27, 2018.