Living in the Children of God / / David E. Van Zandt.
At the height of the religious ferment of the 1970s, David Van Zandt studied firsthand the most vilified of the new radical religious movements--the Children of God, or the Family of Love. First feigning membership and later gaining the permission of the Family, the author lived full-time in COG col...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1991 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: Studying the Children of God
- ONE. Ideology and Proselytization
- TWO. A Short History of the Children of God
- THREE. The Organizational Setting of Everyday Life
- FOUR. Social Relations in Everyday Life
- FIVE. Litnessing: Street Proselytization as an Access Strategy
- SIX. Witnessing: Techniques for Conversion
- SEVEN. Reading Religious Literature
- EIGHT. Practical Religious Activity: Creating and Maintaining the Children of God Reality
- NINE. Socialization and Role Negotiation
- POSTSCRIPT: January 1991
- APPENDIX A: The Life History of the Research and Ethical Considerations
- APPENDIX B: Sample Mo Letters
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX