Children in New Religions

ISBN-13: 9780813526201 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 270 str.

Susan J. Palmer; Charlotte E. Hardman

Opis

What's it like to grow up in a cult? The late 1960s and early 1970s constituted a remarkable period for the proliferation of new religious groups. In the 1990s, a second generation has come of age and, in some groups, outnumber adults. While the parents made the decision as adults to drop out of mainstream society and embrace alternative religious goals, the children have been raised with a very different orientation toward the larger society; they grew up assimilating their unique subcultures, many of them gazing with curiosity at the surrounding society it was never their choice to reject.