| The Endtime Family: Children of God Contributor(s): Bainbridge, William Sims (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791452638 ISBN-13: 9780791452639 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion | Christianity - Denominations - Religion | Cults |
| Dewey: 289.9 |
| LCCN: 2001031125 |
| Physical Information: (0.92 lbs) 218 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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? |