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The Endtime Family
William Sims Bainbridge
其他書名
Children of God
出版
SUNY Press
, 2002-01-24
主題
Social Science / Sociology of Religion
Religion / Cults
Religion / Psychology of Religion
Religion / Christianity / Denominations
ISBN
0791452638
9780791452639
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4yxz5y-QVz8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 books blending of theoretical analysis with vivid accounts of this remarkable counterculture poses a fascinating question for social scientists and societyhow is it that The Children of God both differ from the general public and, in other ways, are so surprisingly similar to it?