Evangelical teachings on masculinity and purity persist even after intellectual rejection

Evidence

For conservative white evangelicals steeped in this ideology, it can be difficult to extricate their faith, and their identity, from this larger cultural movement. As one man who grew up awash in evangelical masculinity and 1990s purity culture later reflected, “I lived and breathed these teachings, and they still shape me in ways I don’t understand even 20 years after rejecting them intellectually.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 681

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader claim that this is transmitted through formative experience rather than assent to propositions — analogous to how cultural formations embed beyond belief.