Children in New Religions

Herausgeber: Palmer, Susan J; Hardman, Charlotte E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of children raised in alternative religious groups such as The Family, Hare Krishna, Wiccans and Pagans, Messianic Communities, and the Rajneesh (Osho) Movement. The essays explore issues including whether child abuse is more likely to occur in unconventional religions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780813526201
• ISBN-10: 0813526205
• Artikelnr.: 21709375

Autorenporträt

SUSAN J. PALMER is an adjunct professor at Dawson College. She has authored numerous books about new religious movements. CHARLOTTE E. HARDMAN is a lecturer of religion at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: alternative childhoods / Susan J. Palmer and Charlotte E.
Hardman
Witches: the next generation / Helen A. Berger
Education and collective identity: public schooling of Hare Krishna youths
/ E. Burke Rochford Jr
In whose interest? separating children from mothers in the Sullivan
Institute/Fourth Wall Community / Amy Siskind
God's children: physical and spiritual growth among Evangelical Christians
/ Simon Coleman
Osho Ko Hsuan school: educating the "new child" / Elizabeth Puttick
Growing up as Mother's Children: socializing a second generation in Sahaja
Yoga / Judith Coney
The children of ISOT / Gretchen Siegler
Children of the Underground Temple: growing up in Damanhur / Massimo
Introvigne
Frontiers and families: the children of Island Pond / Susan J. Palmer
Social control of new religions: from "brainwashing" claims to child sex
abuse accusations / James T. Richardson
The precarious balance between freedom of religion and the best interests
of the child / Michael W. Homer
Children of a Newer God: the English courts, custody disputes, and NRMs /
Anthony Bradney
The ethics of children in three new religions / Charlotte E. Hardman