My thesis advisor recommended that I check this book out (though I'm not convinced she'd read it first) because of the emphasis on college-aged students and spirituality. It's no big wonder that I like this book when I can heavily identify with the author's background/interest in pedagogy, feminism, and spirituality. In the conclusion section of the book, Freitas specifically points to teachers, parents, school administrators, and the clergy as the intended audience of this book. In a way, I'm surprised she addressed them so late in the text, but the more I think about it, the more I think that the point was to understand how college students identify and talk about spirituality and sex. The snippets of qualitative data are really telling, and I like how Freitas turns that into a call for social change. I like the framing of the qualitative research, and I like that focus of looking at how college students are thinking and acting instead of telling the readers what's wrong or needs to be done about it. This is what college students are saying/thinking/doing, and how do we feel about that?

I especially like how Freitas frames the placement of the soul/religion/spirituality and sex. Do the students find them to be completely separate? Are they thoroughly linked? This book poses so many questions and really encourages readers to start asking those questions and encouraging dialogic communication about it. Sex and spirituality are such tricky topics, but we really aren't in a position to just let them go unattended.