The endtime family : Children of God / William Sims Bainbridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bainbridge, William Sims.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children of God (Movement).

Cults.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This groundbreaking analysis of the controversial religious group, The Family, or The Children of God, uses interviews, observational techniques, and a comprehensive questionnaire completed by more than a thousand Family members. William Sims Bainbridge explores how Family members infuse spirituality with sexuality, channel messages that they believe emanate from beyond life, and await the final Endtime. He also examines attempts by anti-cultists and the state to "deprogram" members of the group, including children, by forcibly seizing them. The book's blending of theoretical analysis with vivid accounts of this remarkable counterculture poses a fascinating question for social scientists and society—how is it that The Children of God both differ from the general public and, in other ways, are so surprisingly similar to it?

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Tables

Introduction

Persecution

Survey

Beliefs

Practices

Alienation

Sexuality

Children

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-197) and index.

ISBN:

9780791489178

0791489175

9780585441429

0585441421

OCLC:

61367487