Children and New Religious Movements, with Dr. Susan Palmer
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How do a community's beliefs about the soul, salvation, and the future shape the everyday lives of its youngest members? What can these movements teach us about our own culture's assumptions about childhood?
Dr. Susan Palmer is a Canadian sociologist of religion whose research focuses on new religious movements. She is Affiliate Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and the author of 12 books on new religious movements including "Aliens Adored: Raël's UFO Religion" (Rutgers, 2004) and "Storming Zion: Government Raids on Religions" (Oxford, with Stuart Wright.)
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