Escolha de vida religiosa consagrada, sexualidade e suas vicissitudes

Abstract

This Master thesis consists of two studies presented through articles formats. One article has a theoretical nature and the other refers to an empirical study. The overall objective of this study was to understand the sexuality process and its vicissitudes in consecrated religious life choice of young women. The theoretical paper presents a non systematic literature review discussing theoretical concepts about sexuality and its vicissitudes through consecrated religious life choice. The empirical article is an exploratory cross-sectional qualitative research, which aimed to investigate the sexuality process and its vicissitudes in religious life of young people who choose to follow the consecrated religious pathway and impasses that underlie this choice. Therefore, semi-structured interviews were carried out considering the topics: sexuality meaning for religious; experience of sexuality within the family - life story; being a woman-a woman in the consecrated religious life; experiences of caring relationships; impasses in sexual experience among religious; vocation - religious vocation; motivations for choosing and staying in the consecrated religious life. From the content of the reports it was found that the choice of sexuality in religious life is not for the young among the greatest challenges . However sexuality expressed in feelings and attitudes in fraternal relations of everyday life these young people the crossing underlies this phenomenon which reveals difficulties of sexuality lived in its broad sense. Conflicts are observed though their speech, therefore another signification in what refers to religious life and sexuality is also observed. Women interviewed pointed as a significant challenge that comes through religious life the difficulty in fraternal relations.