Journal of Sociology, 51(4): 843-856, “‘Losing my religion’: Managing identity in a post-Jehovah’s Witness world”
“It shows how disaffiliation was staged as a dynamic struggle for self as the ex-JWs swung between the secular attractions of freedom and hedonism, and the certainty and comfort of the religious community.”
Interviews with young Australian JWs born into the religion who left; sociological context on born-in leavers rather than on shunning outcomes.
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