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Author: Marie-Ève Melanson

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Abstract: Sacred Land and Secular Concerns: When the Archangels Disregard Zoning By- Laws

Marie-Ève Melanson May 20, 2019

To be presented in at the Association for the Sociology of Religion’s 81st Annual Meeting, “Engaging Religion in a Contested Age”. In the developing post-industrial “Abstract: Sacred Land and Secular Concerns: When the Archangels Disregard Zoning By- Laws”

Research Project

Children in Sectarian Religions and State Control, 1950-2020

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They lived in the children's house

« … they lived in the Children’s House … »

Our research group studies past and present alternative religions like the Oneida Perfectionists (illustrated above and elsewhere on this website). Some of these groups have controversial child-rearing practices. It is our task to collect and provide information about children’s lives in minority religions which is accurate, up-to-date, and based on evidence. Our discipline requires that we maintain an objective value-free stance.

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