Acknowledgments Introduction: Bodies and Beliefs in Religious Rhetoric Victoria Houser and Mari Ramler Part 1 Rhetorical Bodies 1 Repainting God's Temple: Tattoo as Post-Traumatic Rhetoric and Healing Practice Chaim McNamee 2 A Working Brain, Womb, and Mouth: The Female Body in Bob Jones University's Purity Culture Camille Kaminski Lewis 3 On Rhetoric, Religious Trauma, Disability, and Queerness: A Love Letter from a Disabled, Nonbinary Queer Ada Hubrig Part 2 Body Language 4 Confession as Apology and Testimony: Disordered Eating and Compulsive Truth-Telling Hannah Benefiel 5 Orange-Flower Water and Olive Oil: Rhetorical Autonomy in Stories of Spiritual Deconstruction Kylie Sommer 6 Reworking Religious Trauma Through Ritual Joseph Richards and Elaine Schnabel 7 When Purity Culture Provides Cover for Sexual Trauma You Later Remember: An Auto rhetorical Reflection DS Leiter 8 It's Never Enough: Purity Culture and Surveillance Tessi Muskrat Part 3 Bodies and Harm 9 Blood and Shame Susan Garza 10 Intervening in Purity Culture: A Social Responsibility Julie Sisler and Mary Pitts 11 The Body of Trauma and the Body of Christ Matthew Boedy Part 4 Healing Bodies 12 Becoming Multiplicitous: An Autoethnography of Religious Rigidity and Queer Identity Christopher Peace 13 Why Mennonites Can't Dance and Other Tales of White Settlers: Moving Toward Embodied Healing for Collective Liberation Amanda K Gross 14 When the Body Remembers: The Body as a Site of Trauma and Memory Carrie Drake 15 Theologizing Violence: Diasporic Bodily Toromas and the Sediments of Iranian Islamic Interrogative Culture Haleh Mir Miri List of Contributors Index.