Perfect Children
Subtitle: Growing Up on the Religious Fringe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Feb 09, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199827787
Description: Children born and raised on the religious fringe are a distinctive yet largely unstudied social phenomenon -they are irreversibly shaped by the experience having been thrust into a radical religious culture by birth. The religious group is all encompassing. It accounts for their family, their school, social networks, and everything that prepares them for their adult life. The inclusion of a second generation of participants raises new concerns and legal issues. Perfect Children examines the ways new religious movements adapt to a second generation, how children are socialized, what happens to these children as they mature, and how their childhoods have affected them.
Notes: Source title: Perfect Children: Growing Up on the Religious Fringe