The Endtime Family
Subtitle: Children of God
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: February 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780791452646
Subjects: Religion & Beliefs; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; Psychology of Religion; Social Science; Religion; Sociology of Religion; Christianity - Denominations; Cults; Children of God (Movement)
Description: "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.