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Deeply critical looks at Faith Assembly
Churches That Abuse
"Churches That Abuse", Ronald M. Enroth [Wikipedia] [Amazon] [full text]
- Chapter 7: Lifestyle and Experience: Abusive Churches Foster Rigidity page 70
- Chapter 8: Dissent and Discipline: Abusive Churches Discourage Questions page 85
- Chapter 9: Exit and Adjustment: Abusive Churches Make Leaving Painful pages 87 to 89
- Chapter 11: Challenge and Change: Abusive Churches Will Always Exist page 114
Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Battin, Margaret Pabst, "Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die" (New York, 2005; Oxford Academic, 22 Sept. 2011), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195140279.001.0001 [Amazon] [text preview]
- Chapter 9: "High-Risk Religion: Informed Consent in Faith Healing, Serpent Handling, and Refusing Medical Treatment" [full text] [full text]
- (Faith Assembly and Hobart Freeman are mentioned on many pages here, so just Ctrl-F)
Also:
Battin, Margaret Pabst (1988) "High-Risk Religion," Philosophic Exchange: Vol. 19 : No. 1 , Article 2