Open AccessWhen equal becomes the same. The spirituality of sex: Have we lost it?
Author(s) -
Annelise Erasmus,
Christo Lombaard
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
verbum et ecclesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2074-7705
pISSN - 1609-9982
DOI - 10.4102/ve.v38i2.1613
Subject(s) - spirituality , conversation , confusion , human sexuality , mainstream , hegelianism , sociology , gender studies , epistemology , psychoanalysis , psychology , theology , philosophy , medicine , communication , alternative medicine , pathology
In this contribution, spirituality and sexuality are brought together as part of a quest for authenticity. In conversation with Hegel and Nietzsche, the confusion between sameness and difference as it plays out in the confusion between the public and private spheres is analysed, en route to proposing life-affirming sexual identities, including non-mainstream sexualities.
Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: Aspects of philosophy, spirituality and human sexuality are brought in conversation with one another.