TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Zandt,David E.
TI  - Living in the Children of God
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9780691608266
AV  - BP605.C38 ǂb V36 1991eb 
U1  - 305.6/89 
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - RELIGION / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anabaptists
KW  - Antinomianism
KW  - Archbishop
KW  - Argot
KW  - Baby bonus
KW  - Baptism with the Holy Spirit
KW  - Birth control
KW  - Book of Revelation
KW  - Child care
KW  - Child of God
KW  - Christian mission
KW  - Christian school
KW  - Christian socialism
KW  - Christian
KW  - Classroom
KW  - Clifford Geertz
KW  - Covert participant observation
KW  - Creation myth
KW  - Credential
KW  - Daily devotional
KW  - David Berg
KW  - Divine inspiration
KW  - Education
KW  - Eschatology (religious movement)
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Everyday life
KW  - Exorcism
KW  - Explanation
KW  - Extended family
KW  - Facilitator
KW  - First Speaker
KW  - Flirty Fishing
KW  - For All Practical Purposes
KW  - Foray
KW  - Glossolalia
KW  - God bless you
KW  - God
KW  - Good faith
KW  - Hippie
KW  - His Family
KW  - How-to
KW  - Ideal type
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Jan Matthys
KW  - Jehovah's Witnesses
KW  - Joachimites
KW  - John 14
KW  - John 3:16
KW  - John Lofland (sociologist)
KW  - Judeo-Christian
KW  - Kids club
KW  - Literature
KW  - Member check
KW  - Milgram
KW  - Missionary position
KW  - Monogamy
KW  - Montessori education
KW  - My Tutor
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Obedience (human behavior)
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Open letter
KW  - Organizational commitment
KW  - Orgy
KW  - Participant observation
KW  - Pentecostalism
KW  - Peoples Temple
KW  - Prayer meeting
KW  - Protestantism
KW  - Publication
KW  - Rebuke
KW  - Relative deprivation
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious development
KW  - Religious orientation
KW  - Religious text
KW  - Roy Wallis
KW  - School prayer
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Selah
KW  - Separatism
KW  - Socialization
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Spirit body
KW  - Spiritual gift
KW  - Spouse
KW  - Sunday school
KW  - Teen Challenge
KW  - Teens for Christ
KW  - The Word of the Lord
KW  - Tithe
KW  - To This Day
KW  - Utopia
KW  - Vacation Bible School
KW  - Vigil
KW  - Wake-up call (service)
KW  - Wedding
KW  - World Council of Churches
KW  - Youth work
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 colonies in England and the Netherlands. From that experience, he has produced an informed, insightful, and humane report on how COG members function in what seems at first to be a completely bizarre setting. The COG, an offshoot of the Jesus People movement of the late 1960s, was one of the first radical religious groups to be accused of "brainwashing." Led by the charismatic David Berg, known as Moses David, the group demands total commitment from its full-time members and proselytizes continuously. Until recently the COG used sex as a proselytizing tool, and it continues to encourage full sexual sharing among group members. Instead of examining the COG's ideology in the abstract, Van Zandt analyzes how its ideas are understood and used by ordinary members in their daily lives. For them the Family is its practical, day-to-day, and all-consuming activities, such as "litnessing" (the street sale of COG literature). This is a vivid eyewitness account that will fascinate anyone interested in life in modern radical communal religions, such as the Unification Church and the Hare Krishnas, as well as in other radical, Christian-based, total-commitment groups. Van Zandt's frank reflections on his near-conversion experience and on the ethics of his covert observation enrich our knowledge of doing research with such groups.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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