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Living in the Children of God /

At the height of the religious ferment of the 1970s, David Van Zandt studied firsthand the most vilified of the new radical religious movements--the Children of God, or the Family of Love. First feigning membership and later gaining the permission of the Family, the author lived full-time in COG col...

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Autor principal: Van Zandt, David E., 1953- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION: Studying the Children of God
  • ONE. Ideology and Proselytization
  • TWO. A Short History of the Children of God
  • THREE. The Organizational Setting of Everyday Life
  • FOUR. Social Relations in Everyday Life
  • FIVE. Litnessing: Street Proselytization as an Access Strategy
  • SIX. Witnessing: Techniques for Conversion
  • SEVEN. Reading Religious Literature
  • EIGHT. Practical Religious Activity: Creating and Maintaining the Children of God Reality
  • NINE. Socialization and Role Negotiation
  • POSTSCRIPT: January 1991
  • APPENDIX A: The Life History of the Research and Ethical Considerations
  • APPENDIX B: Sample Mo Letters
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.