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Acknowledgements
I would like to extend my thanks to Jeffrey Kaplan for his time, consideration, and guidance
during the preparation of this article. I would like also to thank Paul Joose and Matt Unger
for proofreading and suggestions. Finally, I am indebted to the Stephen A. Kent Collection
on Alternative Religions (housed at the University of Alberta) for access to original COG/The
Family Publications.
Susan Raine is a second year Ph.D. student in the sociology department at the University
of Alberta. Her research interests include NRMs, ideological groups, religious-national
conflict, martyrdom, and social theories of the body and of emotions.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review, 2006, Volume 5, Number 1,
pages 29-72. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume. This
fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
Van Zandt, David E. (1991). Living in the Children of God. New Jersey: Princeton University
Press.
Wallis, Roy. (1977). The road to total freedom: A sociological analysis of Scientology. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Wallis, Roy. (1981). Yesterday‘s children: Cultural and structural change in a new religious
movement. in Bryan Wilson (Ed.). The social impact of new religious movements (pp.
97–133). New York: Rose of Sharon Press.
Wallis, Roy. (1983). Sex, violence, and religion. Update. 7(4):3–11.
Wangerin, Ruth. (1993). The Children of God: A make believe revolution? Westport, CN:
Bergin and Garvey.
Wilkinson, Peter. (2005, June–July). The life and death of the chosen one. Rolling Stone
(pp. 114–122, 162, 166).
Williams, Miriam. (1998). Heaven‟s harlots: My fifteen years in a sex cult. New York: Eagle
Brook, William Morrow and Company, Inc.
Williams Boeri, Miriam. (2002). Women after the utopia: the gendered lives of former cult
members. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. 31(3):323–360.
Williams Boeri, Miriam. (2005). The Children of God. In Christel Manning and Phil
Zuckerman (Eds.). Sex &religion (pp. 160–180). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Zablocki, Benjamin. (2001). Towards a demystified and disinterested scientific theory of
brainwashing. In Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins (Eds.). Misunderstanding
cults: Searching for objectivity in a controversial field (pp. 159–214). Toronto, On:
University of Toronto Press.
Zablocki, Benjamin. (2001a). Misunderstanding cults: Searching for objectivity in a
controversial field. Toronto, On: University of Toronto Press.
Zablocki, Benjamin and Robbins, Thomas. (2001b). Introduction: Finding a middle ground in
a polarized scholarly arena. In Benjamin Zablocki and Thomas Robbins (Eds.).
Misunderstanding cults: Searching for objectivity in a controversial field (pp. 3–31).
Toronto, On: University of Toronto Press.
Acknowledgements
I would like to extend my thanks to Jeffrey Kaplan for his time, consideration, and guidance
during the preparation of this article. I would like also to thank Paul Joose and Matt Unger
for proofreading and suggestions. Finally, I am indebted to the Stephen A. Kent Collection
on Alternative Religions (housed at the University of Alberta) for access to original COG/The
Family Publications.
Susan Raine is a second year Ph.D. student in the sociology department at the University
of Alberta. Her research interests include NRMs, ideological groups, religious-national
conflict, martyrdom, and social theories of the body and of emotions.
This article is an electronic version of an article originally published in Cultic Studies Review, 2006, Volume 5, Number 1,
pages 29-72. Please keep in mind that the pagination of this electronic reprint differs from that of the bound volume. This
fact could affect how you enter bibliographic information in papers that you may write.
