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Sexuality within the thoughts on the identity of Christian family
Ivica Pažin
orcid.org/0009-0001-4570-3418
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet u Đakovu, Sveučilište u Osijeku
Suzana Vuletić
; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet u Đakovu, Sveučilište u Osijeku
Sažetak
The youth have always been interested in the mystery of
their physical and sexual growing. The curiosity about sexual
growing has been a kind of a taboo in the family and religious
environment. In the absence of information from the family
and Church environment about physical changes and sexual
maturity, the youth mainly rely on the information from the
peers and inappropriate literature. The consequences of such
an approach are: sexuality is reduced to corporeity; intensified
promiscuity; relativization of institutional norms of behavior;
growing propagation of autonomy and individual freedom, which
damages the moral immunity.
These circumstances were a challenge, as the thirtieth unit
of the Project “Christian identity and quality of marital and
family life” is dedicated to premarital sexual relationships, and,
consequently, we wanted to interpret them through socio-religious
analysis, with accent on moral and catechetical approach in the
context of the Project.
The results tend to imply that the position of sexual morality
in contemporary permissive society has become, in some measure,
individualized and relieved from institutional norms and sublimated
repression. In that case, it has been reduced to sub/cultural
genitalization and banal sexuality through depersonalized love,
extirpated from its orientation to entire person. By the research,
we have affirmed how hard it is to apply religious indicators to
the youth beliefs, since they increasingly respect the chosen
morality of selective Christian criteria. The range of approving the
premarital sexual relationships has been changing depending on
the socio-demographic indicators and religious identity.
If sexuality is to be correctly founded, it should be observed
through the prism of personalistic norm and integrative love,
and also morally directed by the family instructions and moral catechistic guidelines about sexual education. Only in this
integration we can expect the formation of authentic Christian
identity.
Ključne riječi
premarital sexual relationships; hypergenitalization of sexuality; family and Church upraising; moral-catechetical-pastoral directions of family education
Hrčak ID:
66169
URI
Datum izdavanja:
4.4.2011.
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