research / arc / religion-morality
How do contested moral traditions about the body get reinterpreted across centuries? The Christianity-sex-shame literature trajectory; Augustine across his works; theological-coherence intervention design; the developmental-theology arc.
Why this matters
The portable claim — what this arc lets you understand outside the surface domain.
The thread takes a particular cluster of inherited moral discomfort seriously enough to do the historical work, the scholarly retrieval, and the experimental-protocol design. Output is editorial; methodology is research-grade. The arc is currently Vela-only; it surfaces questions about how moral arguments persist, mutate, and get re-grounded across institutional contexts that have purchase well outside the figurative-art surface domain.
Spans
Products this arc cuts through. Each application is sometimes the lead empirical apparatus, sometimes the funding/data-collection platform.
Read first
The general-audience entry point for this arc. Drill down below for the full set.
Drill-down — full arc surface
Cross-product. Source application shown on each entry.
Reports
The actual research findings — phased results, research-question briefs, applied analyses.
Literature review for the Christianity / sex / shame thread.
A research note synthesizing the historical case.
How the tradition reads itself across centuries.
An across-the-corpus reading of Augustine on the body, sex, and shame.
Audience tiers
The same headline research surfaced four ways: peer-review, engineering, general audience, product.
A senior referee's review of the christianity-sex-shame literature review and supporting documents, written for a psychology-of-religion / history-of-Christianity outlet.
Staff-engineer review of the corpus pipeline that produces the christianity-sex-shame research outputs — dual-grade ingestion, retrieval against thinly-curated sources, and reproducibility of the synthesis chain.
Product strategist's read on what the christianity-sex-shame research tells Vela to build next — content-warning UX, member recruitment messaging, the theological-coherence intervention as a /study module, and how the player should adapt for high-religiosity participants.
Bibliography
Field positioning — formal references and literature maps grounding the research threads.
Preregistrations & protocols
Studies and intervention protocols filed before execution.