Cultural Encounters Team Member Jelle Wiering will be awarded a PhD by the University of Groningen on 8 September. His PhD thesis analyses sexuality education in The Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, the subjects of religion and sexuality are often considered to be incompatible. PhD student Jelle Wiering is contesting the tendency to automatically assign the blame for problems concerning sexuality to religion. He studied secular practices in the Dutch field of sexual health, including by teaching sex education himself. Wiering asserts that many of the issues that are put down to the religious approach to sexuality conceal similar problems relating to sexuality in non-religious contexts.

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