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Children in New Religions
Rutgers University Press, 1999 eISBN: 978-0-8135-5566-9 | Paper: 978-0-8135-2620-1 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-2619-5 Library of Congress Classification BP603.C48 1999 Dewey Decimal Classification 200.83
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The late 1960s and early 1970s constituted a remarkable period for spiritual experimentation and for the proliferation of new religious groups. Now the children born into these religions have come of age. While their parents made the decision as adults to embrace alternative religious practices, the children have been raised with a very different orientation toward the larger society. While they take their religious communities for granted, many of these children gaze with curiosity at the surrounding secular world which their parents, not they, chose to reject. The contributors to this volume examine children from many different alternative religious movements worldwide, including The Family, Hare Krishna, Wiccans, and Pagans, Messianic Communities, and the Rajneesh (Osho) Movement. The essays explore two general questions: 1) What impact does the presence of children have on a new religion's lifestyle and chance of surviving into the future? 2) Is child abuse more likely to occur in unconventional religions, or are children born into them, the 'new' religions have grown up and have become an important and rapidly changing social force that we cannot reasonably dismiss or wisely ignore See other books on: Agnosticism | Cults | New Religions | Palmer, Susan J. | Religious life See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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Nearby on shelf for Islam. Bahai Faith. Theosophy, etc. / Other beliefs and movements:
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Children in New Religions
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Rutgers University Press, 1999
eISBN: 978-0-8135-5566-9
Paper: 978-0-8135-2620-1
Cloth: 978-0-8135-2619-5
eISBN: 978-0-8135-5566-9
Paper: 978-0-8135-2620-1
Cloth: 978-0-8135-2619-5
The late 1960s and early 1970s constituted a remarkable period for spiritual experimentation and for the proliferation of new religious groups. Now the children born into these religions have come of age. While their parents made the decision as adults to embrace alternative religious practices, the children have been raised with a very different orientation toward the larger society. While they take their religious communities for granted, many of these children gaze with curiosity at the surrounding secular world which their parents, not they, chose to reject. The contributors to this volume examine children from many different alternative religious movements worldwide, including The Family, Hare Krishna, Wiccans, and Pagans, Messianic Communities, and the Rajneesh (Osho) Movement. The essays explore two general questions: 1) What impact does the presence of children have on a new religion's lifestyle and chance of surviving into the future? 2) Is child abuse more likely to occur in unconventional religions, or are children born into them, the 'new' religions have grown up and have become an important and rapidly changing social force that we cannot reasonably dismiss or wisely ignore
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
