Sex, Slander, and Salvation: Investigating the Family/Children of God
- ISBN-10
- 0963950126
- ISBN-13
- 9780963950123
- Category
- Children
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Author
- J. Gordon Melton
Description
Essays studying the religious group The Family, previously known as the Children of God.
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