Turner Yolanda, Stayton William
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J Relig Health. 2014 Apr;53(2):483-97. doi: 10.1007/s10943-012-9652-3.
Clergy and religious leaders are facing a wide variety of sexual needs and concerns within their faith communities. Conflicts over sexual issues are growing across the entire spectrum of religious denominations, and clerics remain ill prepared to deal with them. As religious communities work to remain influential in public policy debates, clergy and the institutions that train them need to be properly prepared for twenty-first century challenges that impact sexuality and religion. Clergy are often the first point of contact for sexual problems and concerns of their faith community members-complex issues centered on morals, spirituality, and ethics. Yet, there still exists a significant lack of sexual curricula in the programs that are educating our future religious leaders. The resulting paucity of knowledge leaves these leaders unprepared to address the needs and concerns of their congregants. However, with accurate, relevant human sexuality curricula integrated into theological formation programs, future leaders will be equipped to competently serve their constituencies. This paper provides a rationale for the need for such training, an overview of the faith- and theology-based history of a pilot training project, and a description of how the Christian faith and the social sciences intersect in a training pilot project's impetus and process.
神职人员和宗教领袖在其信仰团体中面临着各种各样的性需求和相关问题。在所有宗教教派中，围绕性问题的冲突都在不断增加，而神职人员仍未做好应对这些问题的准备。随着宗教团体努力在公共政策辩论中保持影响力，神职人员及其培训机构需要为影响性与宗教的21世纪挑战做好充分准备。神职人员往往是其信仰团体成员性问题和相关担忧的第一接触点，这些复杂问题以道德、灵性和伦理为核心。然而，在培养未来宗教领袖的课程中，性教育课程仍然严重匮乏。由此导致的知识匮乏使这些领袖无法满足其会众的需求和关切。然而，如果将准确、相关的人类性学课程纳入神学培养计划，未来的领袖将有能力胜任地服务于他们的选民。本文阐述了开展此类培训的必要性，概述了一个试点培训项目基于信仰和神学的历史，并描述了基督教信仰与社会科学在一个培训试点项目的动力和过程中是如何交叉的。
