ABSTRACT

Thinking sexuality education and religion together often results in antagonisms that pit religious and secular values against each other. Political theology provides new insights into this tendency by showing how modern concepts of political legitimacy are based on secularised Christian theology. Neoliberal schooling, public sexual health and human rights provide legitimacy for sexuality education in post-Christian societies and all three are grounded in political theology. The political theology of sexuality education can be seen wherever ideal sexual subjectivities are presented which set up standards which one can succeed or fail to meet with clear consequences. These standards could be heterosexual, safe and marital, but equally agential, pleasurable, transgressive and self-aware. While there may be many ways of escaping the Christian political theological foundations of sexuality education altogether, a political theology of non-violence opens up a way for Christian and secular conceptions of sexuality education to move forward amidst significant cultural and moral difference.

摘要

将性教育和宗教放在一起思考往往会导致宗教和世俗价值观相互对立的对立。政治神学通过展示现代政治合法性概念如何基于世俗化的基督教神学，为这种趋势提供了新的见解。新自由主义教育、公共性健康和人权为后基督教社会的性教育提供了合法性，这三者都以政治神学为基础。性教育的政治神学可以在理想的性主体性出现的任何地方看到，这些性主体性设立了标准，人们可以成功或失败并产生明确的后果。这些标准可能是异性恋、安全和婚姻标准，但同样具有能动性、愉悦感、违规和自我意识。