Angela Coco is an Australian sociologist and academic whose primary research interests have been in the area of the sociology of religion, new religious movements, Catholicism, and Paganism.
[1][2] Her research and publication history has focused on the areas of Catholics experiences of conflict with the church, the Catholic social movement called 'Women and the Australian Church', Pagan organising and communicating in online/offline spaces, and Universal Medicine (New Religious Movement)[1] Coco was a member of the executive that established the Women Scholars of Religion and Theology association.
[7] One reviewer stated that Coco's "…analysis is an important contribution to feminist scholarship documenting the complicated, differentiated realities of individuals’ everyday/everynight experiences.
"[8] Following the publication of the book Coco was interviewed by John Cleary on ABC Radio National to discuss some of the wider issues behind the clergy sex abuse crisis.
[9] In 2016, the Women’s Caucus of the Australian Association for the Study of Religion invited Coco to give the Penny Magee Memorial Lecture and she spoke on Touching taboos: sex, gender and Universal Medicine[10]