Abstract:The article postulates a structural similarity between New Religious Movement ‘families’ and Mainstream middle‐class ‘families’. Analysis of the former permits with regard to the latter the theorization of the exclusive family, posited as an intergenerational alliance of married couples. Both entities are constituted in charismatic, witnessing, and corporate processes. With the New Religious Movements, contradiction pertaining to a foundational state of communitas stimulates such processes, whilst with the exc… Show more
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