Introduction: alternative childhoods / Susan J. Palmer and Charlotte E. Hardman -- Witches: the next generation / Helen Berger -- Education and collective identity: public schooling of Hare Krishna youths / E. Burke Rochford Jr. -- In whose interest? separating children from mothers in the Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall Community / Amy Siskind -- God's children: physical and spiritual growth among Evangelical Christians / Simon Coleman -- Osho Ko Hsuan school: educating the "new child" / Elizabeth Puttick -- Growing up as Mother's Children: socializing a second generation in Sahaja Yoga / Judith Coney -- The children of ISOT / Gretchen Siegler -- Children of the Underground Temple: growing up in Damanhur / Massimo Introvigne -- Frontiers and families: the children of Island Pond / Susan J. Palmer -- Social control of new religions: from "brainwashing" claims to child sex abuse accusations / James T. Richardson -- The precarious balance between freedom of religion and the best interests of the child / Michael W. Homer -- Children of a Newer God: the English courts, custody disputes, and NRMs / Anthony Bradney -- The ethics of children in three new religions / Charlotte E. Hardman.
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