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Changing Sexual and Family Behaviors Challenge Religious Values
How did
social and moral values and public legislation change so quickly from support
for stable family relationships to sexual license and family dissolution? What influences encouraged or resisted these
changes? What were the consequences for
individuals, society, and religious practices?
Wrestling
With Angels – The Sexual Revolution
Confronts the Church, due to be released in May, 2003 ,
written by Marjorie L. Coppock, documents the sexual revolution
that swept across the United States in the last half of the twentieth
century. This revolution brought
profound changes in sexual behaviors and family relationships that jeopardized
the ability of the family to act as a reproductive support group for religious
values and ideas.
Religious groups encountered political struggles internally and
within the larger society in support for traditional moral values. The debates relating to sexuality, sex
education, abortion, radical feminism, sexual child abuse, reproductive
technology, divorce and homosexuality focused on the meaning of human life, the
family, and sacred values.
Consequently, the disputes were accompanied by ferocious denunciations
and accusations.
Highly disciplined and vocal groups
formed to promote perspectives on all sides of these debates. Wrestling
With Angels – The Sexual Revolution Confronts the Church identifies
the perspectives, actors, and organizations involved in the debates over
differing definitions of appropriate sexual and family patterns, particularly
as they responded to changing legislation.
Denominational literature, newspaper and
magazine reports, journal articles and other literature are summarized and
integrated to analyze the ongoing
contests within and between religious organizations as well as within the
larger society.
Interest in the book grew out of Coppock’s life experiences. She taught sociology in the Texas A&M
University and University of Texas Systems. Over her lifetime she was a member of churches
of several denominations, including Baptist, Church of the Brethren, United
Methodist, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian. Actively involved in the churches in which she and her family were members, Coppock was sensitized to the varied
perspectives, both within denominations and between denominations in regard to support for sexual
and family patterns. She and her
husband, Dr. Carl E. Coppock, currently reside in San Antonio, Texas. They
have three grown children , two sons
and a daughter.
About the Author. Marjorie L. Coppock
holds a BA degree in Psychology from Bridgewater
College, an MS degree in Organizational Behavior from Cornell University, and a
Ph.D. in sociology from Texas A&M
University. She has taught sociology
within the Texas A&M and the University of Texas systems with a focus
on social organization, social problems, social movements, marriage
and family, juvenile delinquency, sociology
of religion, and research methods.
Book Statistics
Title: Wrestling With Angels
Subtitle: The Sexual Revolution Confronts
the Church
Author: Marjorie L. Coppock, Ph.D.
ISBN: 1-932124-01-2
Category: Christian Living/Social Issues
Length: 267 pages
Retail price: $15.95
Binding: 5 ˝ X 8 3/8
Additions: Table of Contents, Preface,
Introduction, Endnotes, Index
Distributed by: The FaithWorks Division
of
National Book Network, Inc. Tel:
(877) 323 4550
Publisher: ACW Press
85443 Lorane Hwy
Eugene, OR 97405 Tel: (800) 931-BOOK