'Tserkov' - Sem'ya Detei Bozhiikh

Abstract

"A church operating in the city of Perm', Tserkov' - Sem'ya Detei Bozhiikh (the Church of the Family of the Children of God, hereafter the Family), which we have been studying for several years, is one of the indigenous Russian confessions to have emerged on the wave of a religious 'Renaissance' which within just a few years has gripped all sectors of postsoviet society. In socialist society, where freedom of conscience was energetically suppressed, only a dozen or so traditional religions used to be in operation. "