%0 Journal Article
%T Pro-abstinence Discourses and the Definition of the Conservative Christian Identity in the Contemporary United States
%A Gresl¨¦-Favier
%A Claire
%J COPAS : Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
%D 2006
%I University of Regensburg
%X This article argues that pro-abstinence discourses play a key role in the definition of the conservative Christian identity in contemporary United States. Using conservative Christian authors coming from various perspectives in the pro-abstinence movements I explain how they, in my view, use abstinence to reinforce and reassert concepts which play a crucial role in the definition of their community's identity.
%U http://copas.uni-regensburg.de/article/view/91/115