A Conflict Perspective On Religion And Sexuality

Sexuality is defined by Merriam-Webster as “the sexual habits and desires of a person”. CITE. There might be a time where a person is a part of a certain religion and is a type of sexuality that their religion would not like, so they would not have the type of life that they are “supposed” to. There are also times where there are adolescent children coming to terms with what they in regards to their sexuality are feeling inside. Would being in a certain religion and having sexuality hurt you in that religion? A conflict perspective would best explain this topic as it is difficult for anyone who has sexual feelings to be able to express them in the eyes of the church. Knowing that you have the knowledge of your own sexuality starts out young

“...sexual and religious experience have in common characteristics conveyed by such words such as desire, mystery, ritual, passion, ecstasy, and union” (Leeming, 2003, p. 102). These are some characteristics that when someone thinks about it, they do go hand in hand. There is usually a desire that goes along with both things that would make someone want to have either sexual relations or go to church. Mystery is involved in both, because there is a sense of wonder that goes with it. People have a passion to go through with the rituals that happen. Finally, there is an ecstasy that comes about in the union that we have with the religion that someone is in and with the sexual relations that someone will have with another. Sexuality and religion do go together as can be seen by the common characteristics which most people would not have known. This backfires on the fact that the question was having sexuality look bad in the eye of the church even though religion and sexuality have some things in common with each

105). There is a single deity, a male, that is at the head of the religion. Women are made to have secondary status as they are made to be less important than men. Women are in the “old-time” religions made to look like temptresses and vixens, that all they want is for men to just give them whatever they want. In these religions, however, men believe that women are their property and that they are theirs and theirs