1. Introduction 2. History and Participants 3. Research Methodology 4. General Conference 2000: Selected Field Notes 5. Analytic Perspectives: Culture Wars 6. Analytic Perspectives: Homophobia and Heterosexism 7. Analytic Perspectives: Social Closure 8. Analytic Perspectives: Contradictory Institutional Logics 9. Implications and Possibilities
Biography
Amanda Udis-Kessler received her PhD in Sociology from Boston College and is the Director of Institutional Research and Planning at The Colorado College.
"Its greatest strength is not the way it describes and analyses the inclusionists’ experience and arguments...Rather, what is important about the book is that, while written from a perspective which is sympathetic to the inclusionists, it gives voice to “ordinary” conservatives who are able to share a little of the meaning they attach to the Bible and to their membership of the United Methodist Church." – Theology and Sexuality
