"Teaching Moral Sex is the first comprehensive study to focus on the role of religion in the history of public sex education in the United States. It examines religious contributions to national sex education organizations from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century, highlighting issues of public health, public education, family, and the role of the state. It details how public sex education was created through the collaboration of religious sex educators-primarily liberal Protestants, along with some Catholics and Reform Jews-with "men of science," namely physicians, biology professors, and social scientists. Slominski argues that the work of early religious sex educators laid foundations for both sides of contemporary controversies regarding comprehensive sexuality education and abstinence-only education. In other words, instead of casting religion as merely an opponent of sex education, this research shows how deeply embedded religion has been in sex education history and how this legacy has shaped terms of current debates. By focusing on religion, this book introduces a new cast of characters into sex education history, including Quaker and Unitarian social purity reformers, the Young Men's Christian Association, military chaplains, the Federal Council of Churches, and the National Council of Churches. These religious sex educators made sex education more acceptable to the public and created the groundwork for recent debates through their strategic combination of progressive and restrictive approaches to sexuality. Their contributions helped to spread sex education and influenced major shifts within the movement, including the mid-century embrace of family life education"--

This book discusses the failure of sex education to properly inform our youth on the issues concerning premarital sex. It's a must-read for parents, educators, and youth workers.

Finally - a curriculum that realistically deals with the sexual pressures facing high-school students today. Teaching the Truth About Sex provides a complete, 12-session course that will give your kids the skills they need to make right decisions in a wrong-thinking world. All 12 sessions have been crafted to be thorough yet flexible, stuffed full of creative ideas for getting your kids involved as they learn. You can use them as them as they are or tailor them to fit your own program. In fact, Teaching the Truth About Sex has so many resources packed into each session that you can easily adjust the direction of your program to fit the particular issues and struggles your kids face. And the Leader's Guide helps you to prepare the sessions and to recognize and deal with the risks in teaching sex education, and even provides tips on how to include parents in the program. Teaching the Truth About Sex is so flexible, you can use it in all kinds of settings, including: youth-group meetings, Christian-school curriculum, Sunday school, camps and retreats. Whether you're a veteran youth worker or just starting out, Teaching the Truth About Sex is an indispensable addition to your youth-ministry resource library. - from back cover.

People still believe that any behavior is permitted so long as they can get away with it. This attitude makes our current moral situation both confusing and discouraging. In addition, society has lost confidence in traditional methods of strengthening morality, be it the family, the schools, religion, or the law. Our failure to create a peaceful, moral world is all the more disturbing when compared to the tremendous strides we have made in science and its application to business and industry, medicine, communications, transportation, and agriculture. In The Morality Maze, Neil M. Daniels expands the concept of morality by assigning it a scientific base in biology. In the past, each individual immoral behavior was described and defined, but we failed to discern what they have in common, other than being forbidden. Daniels reveals one simple moral factor that pervades all moral and immoral behavior. This "common denominator" is a bioenvironmental fact of human ecology. The human ecosystem artifact common to all forms of morality is "property," an innovative component of moral ecology theory that has revolutionary implications for moral philosophy, law, education, and daily life.

"Theory After Theory Provides A Global Overview Of Developments In Literary Theory After 1950. It Is Intended Both As A Handbook For Readers To Learn About Theory And An Intellectual History Of The Recent Past In Literary Criticism For Those Interested In Seeing How It Fits In With The Broader Culture. Accessible But Rigorous, This Book Provides A Wealth Of Historical And Intellectual Context That Allows The Reader To Make Sense Of Recent Theoretical Movements."--BOOK JACKET.