Perfect children :
Van Eck Duymaer Van Twist, Amanda,
Perfect children : growing up on the religious fringe / Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist. - 262 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sects and their children -- Sects, children, and society -- Leadership and discipline -- Points of conflict: the children of God and the state -- What happened?: the aftermath of growing up in a sectarian group -- What is perceived as successful socialization? -- The young members who stay -- The young members who leave -- Support -- In the wilderness.
Children born and raised on the religious fringe are a distinctive yet largely unstudied social phenomenon -they are irreversibly shaped by the experience having been thrust into a radical religious culture by birth. The religious group is all encompassing. It accounts for their family, their school, social networks, and everything that prepares them for their adult life. The inclusion of a second generation of participants raises new concerns and legal issues. Perfect Children examines the ways new religious movements adapt to a second generation, how children are socialized, what happens to these children as they mature, and how their childhoods have affected them.
9780199827800 019982780X 9780199827787 0199827788
2014015980
GBB512180 bnb
Cults.
Children--Religious life.
Families--Religious life.
BP603 / .V35 2015
200.83
Perfect children : growing up on the religious fringe / Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist. - 262 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sects and their children -- Sects, children, and society -- Leadership and discipline -- Points of conflict: the children of God and the state -- What happened?: the aftermath of growing up in a sectarian group -- What is perceived as successful socialization? -- The young members who stay -- The young members who leave -- Support -- In the wilderness.
Children born and raised on the religious fringe are a distinctive yet largely unstudied social phenomenon -they are irreversibly shaped by the experience having been thrust into a radical religious culture by birth. The religious group is all encompassing. It accounts for their family, their school, social networks, and everything that prepares them for their adult life. The inclusion of a second generation of participants raises new concerns and legal issues. Perfect Children examines the ways new religious movements adapt to a second generation, how children are socialized, what happens to these children as they mature, and how their childhoods have affected them.
9780199827800 019982780X 9780199827787 0199827788
2014015980
GBB512180 bnb
Cults.
Children--Religious life.
Families--Religious life.
BP603 / .V35 2015
200.83