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| | Religion and sexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | This is debatable as Hindu beliefs are actually Monistic; however Buddhism is a nontheistic religion)). | | | In the religion's teachings, the prohibition against sex outside of marriage is largely related to the prescribed life stages Hindus are bound to follow if they are to attain moksha (the same as the Buddhist concept of nirvana, or enlightenment of the soul). | | | The views of religions and religious believers range widely, from holding that sex and the flesh are evil and that many forms of sexual expression should be prohibited and punished, to the belief that sex is the highest expression of the divine and should not be regulated by social mores. |
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| | Disability Central > ActivTeen > Magazine > Girl's Night Out |
| | Marriage and sexuality, to an outsider, seem to be viewed by Buddhists with a shrug. | | | The religion of Hindu greatly welcomes outside influences and reformation, but generally is shaped by the beliefs of karma (a “cosmic” cycle of re birth and death) and Brahman (considered to be the principle source of the universe). | | | Most early civilizations created religions similar to some “new age” religions today, focusing on worship of their gods who were seen by their appearance or works in nature. |
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| | Joho the Blog: Justice, Religion, Sexuality |
| | As I read the Justice’s words, it seemed increasingly likely that the present stresses over sexuality in the church will not be resolved by new arguments, or even by new attention to arguments that presently have been relegated to the sidelines of the public strutting contest. | | | He has very little time for religion and churches. | | | Many religions also have numerous accounts of visitations by angels and heavenly messengers, throughout the centuries. |
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| | ARSRC Training: Understanding Human Sexuality Seminar Series |
| | The theme was Sexuality and Social Institutions, with a Focus on Religion, Beliefs and Marriage. | | | Ayantayo and Akintunde explored sex and spirituality as presented by the three dominant religions in Nigeria (Islam, Christianity and traditional religion). | | | Professor Matthews Ojo’s paper on "Religion and Sexuality: Individuality, Choice and Sexual Rights in Nigerian Christianity" focused on the teachings of the Pentecostal Church on sexual rights, asserting that regulation of sexuality and sexual behaviour is important to many religious groups in Nigeria. |
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http://www.arsrc.org/training/uhsss/uhsss004_nig.htm
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| | Religion & Sexuality |
| | If your religion desperately seeks to control what people do with their bodies, then you likely will also be preoccupied with what other people do with their bodies and seek to control them. | | | Human sexuality is not an easy issue for religious leaders steeped in traditions that have contempt for the human body. | | | Contempt for sexuality cannot but lead to self-contempt, for we are all sexual creatures. |
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http://www.wuuc.org/sermons/RELIGI1.htm
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| | Sexuality and Religion |
| | Women's Sexuality - Sexuality and Religion - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/womens_sexuality/117554 | | | I believe that what you believe about sexuality is directly tied to what you think about religion. | | | If you attempt to impose your sexual desires upon others who do not welcome your advances, you are infringing upon their sexual freedom. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/womens_sexuality/117554
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| | Religion and Sexuality: an Introduction to the Issues |
| | A small number of religious traditions are very explicit in detailing specific sexual behaviors and their purposes, and there are religious traditions that have official sexual rituals. | | | Some hold that sexual behavior is only spiritual (and can even be considered sacred) within certain kinds of relationships, when used for specific purposes (such as procreation), or when incorporated into religious ritual. | | | Within any one religious tradition there are often multiple organizations addressing sexual issues, and people in those organizations have varying levels of agreement with the official teachings and practices of the larger religious organization. |
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| | The Center For Sexuality and Religion |
| | Religion and sexuality is an important and sensitive issue, which is not openly discussed within faith communities. | | | Rimassa noted that even as clergy sexual abuse is making headlines, congregations are looking for their religious leaders to help people of all ages become comfortable with their own sexuality. | | | WAYNE, PA: The Center for Sexuality and Religion is introducing a new independent study program where persons from a wide variety of ministries and human services can focus on personal development, spirituality, morality, psychology, biology and communication in relation to human sexuality. |
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| | Sexuality and Religion Links |
| | Notes: An international, multi-faith network of progressive feminist religious scholars and leaders relates religion to the issues of population, consumption/ecology, reproductive health and the empowerment of women. | | | Notes: Created to assist religious institutions and groups in providing healthy and responsible sexuality education in the context of religious and theological study. | | | To empower Muslim LBT women to deal with the issues they face resulting from their sexual orientation and/or gender (identity) within the context of their ethnic, cultural and/or religious background. |
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http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/linksreligion.html
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| | Religion and Sexuality in Local Context |
| | The Religion, Sexuality, and Public Policy Project, funded by the Ford Foundation, is the Park Ridge Center's most systematic effort to study the intersection of religion and sexuality. | | | Position statements on sexual issues from numerous religious traditions were gathered and collated during an early phase of the project. | | | The overarching purpose of this multiphase project is to help policy makers understand a wide variety of issues in the interrelationship between religion and sexuality in various cultures and regions of the world, and attendant consequences for public policy. |
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http://www.parkridgecenter.org/Page179.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Religion and Sexuality in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture): ... |
| | Although sometimes religion and sexuality is treated as an aberrant theme in American literary and religious history, American writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to John Updike have been fascinated with the connection between religious and sexual experience. | | | Through the voice of American fiction, "Religion and Sexuality in American Literature" examines the relations of body and spirit (religion and sexuality) by asking two basic questions: how have American novelists handled the interaction between religious and sexual experience? | | | Are there instructive similarities and differences in how male and female authors write about religion and sexuality? |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521416760
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| | Certificate in Sexuality and Religion - Pacific School of Religion |
| | Certificate in Sexuality and Religion - Pacific School of Religion | | | PSR's new Certificate in Sexuality and Religion (CSR) is designed to develop and nurture such leadership by providing a unique program focusing on the theological, historical, ethical, pastoral, and practical dimensions of sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender identity. | | | Understand the history of faith traditions in regard to sexuality and sexual identity |
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http://www.psr.edu/page.cfm?l=256
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| | 234 Worship Service on Sexuality Education and Religion |
| | Sexuality education is important because the lives of our children depend on our ability to communicate to them about the beauty and power of sexual intimacy. | | | Comfort with one's own sexuality and the sexuality of others seems to be a hallmark of AYS graduates. | | | The Worship Service on Sexuality Education and Religion, sponsored by the UUA Administration, was held on Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. |
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| | BIOL-PSYC 11 -- Lesson Sixteen -- Barstow College |
| | “It is important to study religion and ethics in conjunction with human sexuality because they frequently provide the framework within which people judge the rightness or wrongness of sexual activity. | | | When a particular religion is practiced…, it helps create culture which then influences … the broader community. | | | For believers, religion sets forth an ethical code and provides sanctions (rewards and punishments) that motivate believers to obey the rules. |
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| | The Journal of Sex Research: Disestablishing covert American state religion:... @ HighBeam Research |
| | Rethinking freedom in terms of sexual practices becomes the major topic of chapter 4, "The Free Exercise of Sex." Here the authors argue that the two First Amendment principles (the free exercise of religion and the disestablishment of a state religion) are fundamentally dependent on each other. | | | The authors propose that one of the reasons genuine freedom is lacking in America is that there really is not a genuine disestablishment of religion as required by the constitution, and consequently, there also cannot be authentic free exercise of religion. | | | He even converted the hearts of many of the most sexually reserved by the sensible persuasiveness that they were spiritually superior in his book Ideal Marriage. |
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http://highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:112247861&refid=ink_tptd_mag
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| | Sexuality - Relationships - Religion |
| | One thing Alana can tell you is the reason religion has some problems with sexuality is because religion, for the most part, benefits by having power over people. | | | Various religions treat sex as evil yet others embrace it. | | | Question: Why is sexuality such an issue in religion and the world? |
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| | Telegraph Opinion There is more to religion than sexuality |
| | What's depressing is that it might convince ordinary people who aren't particularly religious that sex is really what religion is obsessed with. | | | Part of the beauty of celibacy as a rule of life for priests has always seemed to me to be its impartiality. | | | Until now, it didn't really matter whether a priest was attracted to men or women, so long as he stayed chaste and redirected his sexual impulses towards God. |
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| | The Body: Annotated Bibliography: Religion, Spirituality and Sexuality |
| | Human sexuality in the Jewish faith is a marriage of body and soul. | | | These essays were written in response to the recommendations of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., on discussing sexuality and sexual orientation. | | | This book explores sexuality in the context of Jewish religion and culture. |
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| | Table of contents for Religion & sexuality |
| | The essays that comprise this compendium explore the various ways in which human sexuality and religion have interacted in different times and in different traditions, from the ascetic to the accepting, from the missionary position to compromising positions. | | | In truth, the true rollercoaster ride may not be the sexual act itself, but rather the ongoing cultural struggle to define and live with sex in light of deep-seated religious and philosophical belief structures. | | | A different approach to male-female sexual relations is examined in chapter 5, as Latter-day Saints scholar David D. Peck details the historical and ongoing controversy of Mormon polygamy. |
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| | Youth Assertiveness |
| | Teens were virtually unanimous in wanting their faith- based institutions to do more to help them relate their faith to dating, sexual decision-making, marriage, and parenting. | | | Virtually all the teens said they are involved in some religious activity in addition to worship attendance, while only 1% percent of teens said that their faith is not important at all. | | | Youth from congregations which provided young people with information about contraception and sexually transmitted disease (about 8% of responding congregations) reported no instances of pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. |
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| | HISTORY OF WITCH CRAFT from Wiccan Products. |
| | It was regarded at one time as a sacred method of communicating with divine beings and entities of the spirit world and of determining the will of the gods by means of visions and predictions. | | | Wicca is the fastest growing religion in America, and it thrives on college campuses in underground covens, classrooms, on the web, and through campus associations. | | | This tape is intended as an introduction to Witchcraft for those who are interested in a new spiritual reality and the fastest-growing religion in the world. |
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| | Religion & Sexuality Links |
| | Ontario Consultants for Religious Tolerance We are an multi-faith group of four volunteers, who follow three different religions. | | | We are different from just about every other Web site on the Internet - We do not promote any particular denomination or religion. |
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| | Vanguard - Health: Role of religion in human sexuality identified |
| | A lecturer at the Department of Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Jacob Ayantayo emphased that traditional Africa religion, Christianity and Islam advocate for the performance of sexual intercourse mainly by husband and wife hence, there is no room for premarital and extramarital sexual activity. | | | While speaking on "Sexuality and the Marriage Institution in Islam: Appraisal" Bilkisu Yusuf, Editor Citizen Communications Ltd Kaduna, observed that huge gaps exists between practice and the actual rights. | | | What potency does religion thinking have in understanding human sexuality? |
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| | Quick Facts on Religion and Sexuality |
| | Religion, Spirituality, and Sexuality: A SIECUS Annotated Bibliography | | | The Religious Declaration on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing |
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| | Education, Sexuality, Religion |
| | Sexuality and Reproductive Health, a field addressed in all three of the foundation’s program divisions, supports efforts to build knowledge, develop policy and deepen public understanding of sexuality and its relationship to human fulfillment, culture, religion and identity. | | | In Religion, Society and Culture we examine the role of religious traditions of the world in shaping social values, with the goal of strengthening the contribution of these traditions to creating just, healthy and pluralistic societies. | | | Home › What We Do › Programs › Knowledge, Creativity and Freedom › Education, Sexuality, Religion |
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| | Lawrence Foster / Religion and Sexuality |
| | "An exciting, first-rate study of the religious ideas and practices regarding sexuality among the Shakers, Oneida Perfectionists, and Mormons. | | | He offeres three experiments in dissent in his bracing and highly readable Religion and Sexuality" | | | Western Americana / History, American: 19th C. / Mormon Studies / Religion / Women's Studies |
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| | Religion Explorer : Gender and Sexuality |
| | Develops and supports an expanding religious network of clergy, religious educators, theologians, theological ethicists, and other religious leaders committed to this vision of religion and sexuality. | | | The mission of the Vanderbilt University School of Divinity's Carpenter Program is to foster conversation on the subject areas of religion, gender, and sexuality. | | | The Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing |
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| | Religion News Service: Press Releases |
| | SPONSORS: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) works to advance the well-being of LBGT people and transform faith communities and the wider society by taking a leading role in shaping a new public discourse on religion and sexuality through education, research, community building and advocacy. | | | Souls a’Fire 2 is the second national conference of the African American Roundtable of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, Calif. | | | The African American Roundtable of CLGS seeks the full inclusion of black lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in communities of faith by fostering dialogue among black church and faith leaders (including scholars of religion), black church congregations, black LGBT persons and between each of these constituencies. |
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| | NEWS: GSC: Demerits not on ballot |
| | Blending humor, highly intellectual theorizing, and references to toys and rhymes, Blau explored the relationship between one’s religion and sexuality. | | | Blau also related personal anecdotes in order to demonstrate his point, recalling instances in which his sexuality and personal religious faith collided. | | | "Because of religion’s conservative nature, we have to confront it," Blau said, in specific reference to sexuality. |
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| | Theology Today - Vol 39, No. 2 - July 1982 - BOOK REVIEW - Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments ... |
| | Due to the size, complexity, schisms, abundance of manuscripts, and present vigor of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mormon case studies receive more space than those of the Shakers and the Oneida Perfectionists. | | | 338 - Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century | | | Theology Today - Vol 39, No. 2 - July 1982 - BOOK REVIEW - Religion and Sexuality: Three American Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century |
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| | The Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality -- Vanderbilt University: |
| | In this web site you will find news items concerning gender, religion, and sexuality, as well as a growing list of syllabi, tradition statements, papers and student projects, links relating to the Carpenter Program's mission, upcoming Carpenter sponsored events, and related conferences. | | | Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality | | | dation, the Carpenter Program is designed to foster conversation about religion, gender, and sexuality. |
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| | - toledoblade.com - |
| | The Constitution, by its very mention of religion in the First Amendment, "recognizes a creator God and the rights that come from it and the duties that you owe to it," said Chief Justice Roy Moore, who will give a speech Tuesday night at Monclova Christian Academy. | | | A nationally known Muslim cleric said in a lecture last night that violence over Danish caricatures of the prophet Mohammed violated Islamic teachings and resulted from a growing perception among Muslims that their religion is hated by Westerners. | | | Home » "> Latest News » "> Religion » |
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| | FSE Project Slavery, Sexuality and Religion |
| | Historically, slave-owners sexually exploited enslaved women and girls, coerced them to give birth, and separated families. | | | Slavery, Sexuality and Religion: Summary of the Slavery Project | | | Our current research shows that religious support for—and opposition to—slavery influenced slavery itself and even religion itself. |
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| | yoga4you |
| | Ritualistic sex sounds strange...what makes a sexual act able to be deemed "ritual" and why is that important? | | | Can sacred sex provide couples with a potential for personal growth, spiritual growth, and growth in intimacy? |
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| | HS 219 Religion and Sexuality in European History (Fall: 3) |
| | The topic of this course is inspired by current issues and debates around sexuality affecting all religious life in the U.S. We will focus on the two major Western religious traditions, Christianity and Judaism, broadly conceived. | | | HS 219 Religion and Sexuality in European History (Fall: 3) | | | Topics covered will include heterosexuality and homosexuality, marriage and the roles religious traditions play in shaping attitudes and beliefs concerning sexuality, identity, tolerance and intolerance. |
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http://www.bc.edu/crs/hs/course/hs21900.shtml
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| | Religion, Sexuality, and Public Policy |
| | Religion, Sexuality, and Public Policy: Overview of World Religions | | | This chart provides a summary of religious perspectives on sexuality. | | | Includes views on Reproductive Health, Marriage and Family, Adolescent Sexuality, Homosexuality, and the Role of Women. |
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| | Our Bodies Ourselves - Religion and sexuality Web Links |
| | resources for communities of faith to promote sexual and spiritual health and justice | | | Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing | | | links to resources on Biblical, faith communities', and other organizations' interpretations of issues of religion and sexuality |
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| | Enculturated Sexuality of Egyptian Religion |
| | Similarly, Western scholarship has assumed that the type of priesthood in which the women were involved was not professional, and when religion became more organized there was an effort to exclude women. | | | Women in priestly service in ancient Egypt were not living in a hypothetical "golden age" of the Mother Goddess, nor in a poorly documented age of the early Church. | | | Philologists identified priestly titles of women as "honorific" while never making such a suggestion about men. |
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| | Religion and Sexuality - Page 11 |
| | You see, if you believe God is truly merciful, well, just like your Mother and Father, if they open your bedroom door and SEE engaged in sexual activity, they wont MURDER you or TORTURE you for all ETERNITY,.... | | | In fact, even in Christianity, if you visit an Episcopal Church, you will find pamphlets which encourage even sexually active Gay men and women, to receive Holy Communion. | | | Whatever your situation, you may worship and it is beneficial, but some life-styles are more beneficial spiritually and others are less beneficial. |
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| | Religion, sexuality compatible at GLO |
| | Organizers want to "dispel the myth that religion, particularly those with a history of anti-gay doctrines like the Catholic Church, and sexuality are incompatible," said Simon Howard, GLO vice president and a freshman majoring in philosophy. | | | The group received official recognition last month after gaining the approval of Rabbi Susan Laemmle, dean of Religious Life, and writing a constitution. |
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| | REL R610 3661 Religion and Sexuality |
| | In this seminar we will explore the thorny and complex relationships between two modern constructed categories, religion and sexuality. | | | While our focus will be on texts from early Christianity and Judaism, we will also engage modern theoretical approaches as well as other religious traditions. | | | Students will be expected to present to the class original work based on primary sources. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~deanfac/blspr02/rel/rel_r610_3661.html
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| | Religion, Sexuality and Mystery.- Recovery Follies |
| | A college girl was supposed to write a short story in as few words as possible for her English class and the instructions were that it had to include Religion, Sexuality and Mystery. | | | She was the only one who received an A+ and this is what she wrote: |
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http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/recovery-follies/religion-sexuality-and-mystery-75383.html#post697141
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| | SSRC :: Sexuality Research Fellowships Fellowship :: 2005-2006 SRFP Postdoctoral Fellowships on Sexuality and Policy |
| | institutional influences, such as religion, education, or media, on sexuality and social policy | | | The Research Consultant shall hold a doctoral degree from a U.S. university or from an accredited foreign university, and shall demonstrate commitment to human sexuality research through his/her previous publication record and research experience. | | | The competition is open to scholars who already hold the Ph.D. or its equivalent from an accredited United States or foreign university at the time of the application deadline. |
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