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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1991]
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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.