Children in New Religions

Children in New Religions Edited by Susan Palmer and Charlotte Hardman Susan J. Palmer teaches religious studies at Dawson College and is an adjunct professor at Concordia College. She has authored numerous books about new religious movements. Charlotte E. Hardman is a lecturer of religion at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. She has authored several books and articles on new religious movements and religion in Nepal. To order a copy of Children in New Religions, please contact: http://www.amazon.com (Published in 1999, Rutgers University Press, ISBN 0-8135-2619-1)

Children in New Religions points out that the late 1960s and early 1970s constituted a remarkable period for spiritual experimentation and for the proliferation of new religious groups. Now the children born into these religions have come of age. While their parents made the decision as adults to embrace alternative religious practices, the children have been raised with a very different orientation toward the larger society. While they take their religious communities for granted, many of these children gaze with curiosity at the surrounding secular world which their parents, not they, chose to reject.

The contributors to this volume examine children from many different alternative religious movements worldwide, including The Family. Children in New Religions demonstrates with wonderful clarity that, like the children born into them, the 'new' religions have grown up and have become an important and rapidly changing social force that we cannot reasonably dismiss or wisely ignore.