Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education: Embodied Learning, Trauma Sensitive Pedagogy, and Perspective Transformation(Routledge Research in Religion and Education)

This volume combines insights from secular sexuality education, trauma studies, and embodiment to explore effective strategies for teaching sexuality and religion in colleges, universities, and seminaries. Contributors to this volume address a variety of sexuality-related issues including reproductive rights, military prostitution, gender, fidelity, queerness, sexual trauma, and veiling from the perspective of multiple religious faiths. Christian, Jewish, and Muslim scholars present pedagogy and classroom strategies appropriate for secular and religious institutional contexts. By foregrounding a combination of "perspective transformation" and "embodied learning" as a means of increasing students’ appreciation for the varied social, psychological, theological and cultural contexts in which attitudes to sexuality develop, the volume posits sexuality as a critical element of teaching about religion in higher education. This book will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, and libraries in the fields of Religious Studies, Religious Education, Gender & Sexuality, Religion & Education, and Sociology of Religion.

Table of Contents:
List of Images List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Series Editor Introduction Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Pedagogical Lenses Chapter One Embodied Learning through Pedagogical Promiscuity by Michelle Mary Lelwica Chapter Two Trauma Sensitive Pedagogy by Stephanie M. Crumpton Chapter Three Perspective Transformation for Professional Formation and Responsible Citizenship by Kate Ott Part II: Instruction about Religion (Religious Studies) Chapter Four Global Ethics and Sexuality by Keun-Joo Christine Pae Chapter Five Countering Colonial Assumptions about Veils, Sexuality, and Islam by Amy L. Defibaugh and Brett A. Krutzsch Chapter Six Toward a Critical Teaching Method of Islamic Genders and Sexualities by Amanullah De Sondy Chapter Seven "Uses of the Erotic" for Teaching Queer Studies by Thelathia "Nikki" Young Chapter Eight Cross-Cultural Teaching about Abortion and Religion by Michelle McGowan and Michal Raucher Part III: Religious Instruction (Theological Education) Chapter Nine A Spiritually Integrative Digital Pedagogy by Carrie Doehring and Rubén Arjona Chapter Ten Role Play in Jewish Pastoral Education by Mychal Springer Chapter Eleven Equipping Teachers of Sexual Ethics in Faith Communities by Boyung Lee Chapter Twelve Testing the Spirits through Critical Fidelity in the Classroom by Patricia Beattie Jung Part IV: Institutional Support for Teaching and Learning Chapter Thirteen The Integrative Challenge of Professional Sexual Ethics in Theological Education by Darryl W. Stephens and Patricia Beattie Jung Chapter Fourteen Faculty Workshop on Teaching Sexuality and Religion by Darryl W. Stephens Index

About the Author :
Darryl W. Stephens is Director of the Pennsylvania Academy of Ministry and Director of United Methodist Studies at Lancaster Theological Seminary, USA. Kate Ott is Associate Professor of Christian Social Ethics and University Scholar in Everyday Ethics at Drew University, USA.