Title: Perfect Children
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.
Subjects: Cults, Children, religious life, Family, religious life, Children, Religious life, Families, Enfants, Vie religieuse, Familles, 11.05 sociology of religion, Kinderen, Godsdienstige bewegingen