The Children of God: A Make-Believe Revolution?

by Ruth Wangerin

Overview

Wangerin examines one small symbolic revolution against American capitalist culture. It was carried out by youth who were painfully and personally aware of the problems of what they called the System, though they did not necessarily understand the underlying causes of their problems. They called themselves the Children of God. Wangerin studied the Children of God from 1973-1978 in the United States, Mexico, and Italy and has kept in touch with some of them ever since. This is one of the most thorough studies of the controversial cult founded in 1968 by David Berg, and the only ethnography that treats it as a mystical utopian socialist movement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897893527
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/19/1993
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1240L (what's this?)

About the Author

RUTH WANGERIN lives in the New York area and travels extensively. She has taught anthropology at Queens College and the City University of New York and is also affiliated with the sociology department of Tehran University in Iran.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Hippies and Preachers
War of the Spirit
Survival
New Bottles: Socialization of Children and Converts
Conclusion
Postscript
Glossary
Appendix: List of Publications of the Children of God/Family of Love
Bibliography
Index