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""Children in Minority Faiths is a courageous and necessary volume. It refuses the easy binaries between innocence and indoctrination that have long haunted debates about religion and childhood. Through incisive sociological analysis, the contributors show how minority status itself often becomes the crime, and how state interventions, however well-intentioned, can create tragedies. This needed book insists that we look harder: at the real child abuse that should be analyzed and prevented, at the prejudices that fuel unnecessary raids and removals, and at the fragile balance between parental rights and children's welfare.""--Massimo Introvigne, Managing Director, Center for Studies on New Religions

""As new religious movements become older, second and third generations of members arrive, raising new questions about child rearing, parental responsibilities, and at times interventions by law enforcement agencies. Susan Palmer has done a great service in bringing together an impressive array of international scholars, who focus on a variety of non-traditional religious communities worldwide. Without endorsing the ways in which children in new religions have been treated, the authors have produced a timely corrective to the scaremongering which the media have often encouraged.""--George Chryssides, ""Children in Minority Faiths is a courageous and necessary volume. It refuses the easy binaries between innocence and indoctrination that have long haunted debates about religion and childhood. Through incisive sociological analysis, the contributors show how minority status itself often becomes the crime, and how state interventions, however well-intentioned, can create tragedies. This needed book insists that we look harder: at the real child abuse that should be analyzed and prevented, at the prejudices that fuel unnecessary raids and removals, and at the fragile balance between parental rights and children's welfare.""--Massimo Introvigne, Managing Director, Center for Studies on New Religions

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Susan J. Palmer is Affiliate Professor at Concordia University. She is the author of Aliens Adored: Rael's UFO Religion, The New Heretics of France, The Nuwaubian Nation: Black Spirituality and State Control, among other books.

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