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" The endtime family : "
William Sims Bainbridge.
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BL
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702600
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b524789
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| Main Entry
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Bainbridge, William Sims.
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| Title & Author
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The endtime family : : Children of God /\ William Sims Bainbridge.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2002.
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xiii, 204 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0791452638
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: 0791452646 (pbk.)
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: 9780791452639 (alk. paper)
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: 9780791452646 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-197) and index.
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| Contents
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Persecution -- Survey -- Beliefs -- Practices -- Alienation -- Sexuality -- Children.
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"This 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 anticultists and the state to "deprogram" members of the group, including children, by forcibly seizing them. The book's blending of theoretical analysis with vivid accounts of this remarkable counterculture poses a fascinating question for social scientists and society - how is it that The Children of God both differ from the general public and, in other ways, are so surprisingly similar to it?"--BOOK JACKET.
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Children of God (Movement)
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| LC Classification
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BP605.C38B35 2002
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