Linking Sexuality and Spirituality in Childhood: beyond body–spirit dualism and towards an education of the inspirited sensual body

Transformative conversations about sexualities pedagogy and the experience of sexual knowing

“…It would examine cultural and historical perspectives of sexualities and gender, including conversations of pleasure and desire, and its tenets would be anchored in the core value that a fundamental human right is to 'be free from sexual exploitation, oppression and abuse' (Aggleton and Campbell 2000). One of the primary messages it would reinforce is that young people have the capacity, subjectivity and agency to make responsible sexual choices for themselves (Morris 2005). We would consider affect and embodiment as crucial and complementary components of sexual learning, and as educators would work toward providing emotional scaffolding for our students until they were able to take their own emotional ownership of the material.…”

The Moderating Effect of Religiousness and Spirituality on the Relation between Dyadic Sexual and Non-Sexual Communication with Sexual and Marital Satisfaction among Married Jewish Women

“…Although spirituality and sexuality are both basic and central human components, Clark and Clark (2004) noted that they are seldom considered together. Indeed, they are often presented as being diametrically opposed to one another (Morris, 2001). Some researchers (e.g., Beckwith & Morrow, 2005) have found a positive relation between spirituality and more conservative sexual attitudes; Doswell, Kouyate, and Taylor (2003) even suggested using spirituality as a key to selfcontrol and self-mastery to promote limiting sexual behavior among young Afro-American girls.…”

Children, Spirituality, Human Rights and Spiritual Abuse

“…With the rise of 'science' as a dominant social paradigm, 'modern' cultures now consider humans to be purely material beings, with only material needs. Science eliminates all but the body; mind becomes brain, everything becomes physical (Morris, 2001). Thus, the great themes of literature and philosophy that were formerly thought to be spiritual, such as passion and love, have become reduced to animals desires, or even to disorders such as 'love addiction'.…”