ABSTRACT

This paper examines the religiosity, sexuality, and attitudes towards same-sex relationships among young people who were students at religiously affiliated schools in Australia and the staff who work in these schools, drawing on a national representative survey. It demonstrates that students are increasingly nonreligious, and accepting of alternatively sexualities, and increasingly identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual. The religiosity of staff has changed less, but teachers have become increasingly accepting of alternative sexualities. These changes are important because they present a very different picture of religiously affiliated education to that portrayed by the conservative religious authorities who shape the policies and practices in these schools. Conservative Christian church leaders are using discursive practices of religious freedom to support governmental techniques and institutional privilege within religiously affiliated educational contexts to constitute conservative sexual subjectivities among the general Australian public who work in and attend these schools.

摘要

本文利用一项全国代表性调查，研究了澳大利亚宗教附属学校学生和这些学校工作人员的宗教信仰、性取向和对同性关系的态度。它表明学生越来越不信教，接受不同的性行为，越来越多地认同女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋。员工的宗教信仰变化不大，但教师越来越多地接受另类性行为。这些变化很重要，因为它们呈现了一幅与塑造这些学校政策和实践的保守宗教权威所描绘的宗教附属教育截然不同的图景。