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CONTENT

Preface

Introduction: Why Children and Cults?

Adolescent Girls in the Real World: Relation or Separation?

Body, Soul, and Image

Explanation of Survey and Profiles

Creating a Cult: From Charismatic Leader to Kingdom

Indoctrination

The Tartarean Paradise of the Cult-Child

Disobedience and Divine Discipline

Education and Inflicted Desires

Creativity, Play, and the Dirt Road to Freedom

Works Cited

Selected Annotated Bibliography

Appendix: Surveys and AOL Member Profiles

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