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At the end of the first term of the 2006-2007 academic year questionnaires were handed to compulsory secondary education students and teachers of English in the Spanish city of Jaén with a view to finding out about the teaching of the Cross-Curricular Issues (CCIs). Then, one year later, the same surveys were handed to 8-11 year students and teachers of French or Spanish in the English city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne with the same purpose. The information obtained shows that the cross-curricular approach introduced in Spain in 1991 is more often followed in the contexts under research of Jaén than of Newcastle.

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In this article, we study women’s tattoos from a lived religion perspective. We describe how women’s tattoos express their inner lives, the religious dynamics associated with tattooing, and how they negotiate them with others. The sample used came from surveys and interviews targeting tattooed women at a confessional college on the East Coast of the United States. Women appropriate a prevalent cultural practice like body art to express their religious and spiritual experiences and ideas. It can be a Catholic motto, a Hindu or Buddhist sign, or a reformulated goddess, but the point is that women use tattoos to express their inner lives. We found that women perceive workplace culture as a hostile space for them to express their inner lives through tattoos, while they are comfortable negotiating their tattoos with their religious traditions. And they do so in a Catholic university.