Ruth Wangerin

The Children of God (eBook, PDF)

A Make-Believe Revolution?

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Wangerin examines one small symbolic revolution against American capitalist culture. It was carried out by youth who were painfully and personally aware of the problems of what they called the System, though they did not necessarily understand the underlying causes of their problems. They called themselves the Children of God. Wangerin studied the Children of God from 1973-1978 in the United States, Mexico, and Italy and has kept in touch with some of them ever since. This is one of the most thorough studies of the controversial cult founded in 1968 by David Berg, and the only ethnography that treats it as a mystical utopian socialist movement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 1993
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313033797
• Artikelnr.: 37815736

Autorenporträt

RUTH WANGERIN lives in the New York area and travels extensively. She has taught anthropology at Queens College and the City University of New York and is also affiliated with the sociology department of Tehran University in Iran.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Hippies and Preachers War of the Spirit Survival New Bottles:
Socialization of Children and Converts Conclusion Postscript Glossary
Appendix: List of Publications of the Children of God/Family of Love
Bibliography Index