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Cross Purposes: Love and Purity at a P uerto R ican Protestant High School
Author(s) -
SealeCollazo James
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12036
Subject(s) - curriculum , sociology , protestantism , liminality , identity (music) , ethnography , communitas , pedagogy , theology , art , anthropology , philosophy , aesthetics
A “native” C hristian ethnographer finds religious education at this church‐sponsored school to pursue two distinct, and occasionally conflicting, curricula: “love” and “purity.” The curriculum of love draws on what Turner called liminality and communitas in an effort to promote spiritual “encounters with G od,” whereas the curriculum of purity stresses adult–student hierarchies as students are urged to reject “worldly” popular culture. Adults were caught between the two goals when one student asserted a gay identity.