Book chapter
Sexual Addiction and Christian Education
Innovating Christian Education Research: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, pp.443-468
Springer Singapore
2021
Abstract
Sexual addiction (SA) and hypersexual disorder (HD) describe prevalent contemporary phenomena that the public remains poorly educated about. Notwithstanding widespread agreement among concerned stakeholders that SA and HD constitute an understudied and underappreciated challenge, the analysis digested in this research converges around the synthesis that Christian Education (CE) stakeholders have not yet had the intrepidity to meaningfully confront this issue. While SA/HD may cause serious bio-psychosocial and spiritual distress, including severe consequences for the affected and their family members, neither the condition, nor its aetiology, is well understood (or even acknowledged) by psychiatrists and medical professionals. Even the latest edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) does not include any mention of SA/HD. This treatise arises from a literature study, which the authors have supplemented with corresponding critical analysis. The synthesis suggests that religious/spiritual beliefs strongly impinge on both SA/HD aetiology and recovery prospects. Moreover, this study argues for more thematisation of SA/HD within CE environments. CE settings can provide a wholesome contextual environment where a better understanding of SA/HD can be mainstreamed and normalised—rather than moralised—for the greater good of both sufferers and society. This chapter charts pertinent perspectives, challenges and opportunities.
Details
- Title
- Sexual Addiction and Christian Education
- Authors
- Fakri Seyed Aghamiri (Corresponding Author) - Christian Heritage CollegeJohannes M Luetz (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Contributors
- Johannes M Luetz (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - LegacyBeth Green (Editor) - Tyndale University College & Seminary
- Publication details
- Innovating Christian Education Research: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, pp.443-468
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-8856-3_24; 10.1007/978-981-15-8856-3
- ISBN
- 9789811588563
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99500608102621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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