Saints Under Siege

Saints Under Siege
Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 282
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780814784822
ISBN-13 : 0814784828
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Saints Under Siege by : Stuart A. Wright

Download or read book Saints Under Siege written by Stuart A. Wright and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist branch of the Mormons. State officials claimed that the raid, which was triggered by anonymous phone calls from an underage girl to a domestic violence hotline, was based on evidence of widespread child sexual abuse. In a high-risk paramilitary operation, 439 children were removed from the custody of their parents and held until the Third Court of Appeals found that the state had overreached. Not only did the state fail to corroborate the authenticity of the hoax calls, but evidence reveals that Texas officials had targeted the FLDS from the outset, planning and preparing for a confrontation. Saints under Siege provides a thorough, theoretically grounded critical examination of the Texas state raid on the FLDS while situating this event in a broader sociological context. The volume considers the raid as an exemplar case of a larger pattern of state actions against minority religions, offering comparative analyses to other government raids both historically and across cultures. In its look beyond the Texas raid, it provides compelling evidence of social intolerance and state repression of unpopular minority faiths in general, and the FLDS in particular.


Saints Under Siege Related Books

Saints Under Siege
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Stuart A. Wright
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-01 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentali
Saints Under Siege
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Stuart A. Wright
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume offers an incisive set of analyses by distinguished religious movements scholars of the massive state raid on the FLDS community in 2008. The book c
Saints Under Siege
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Stuart A. Wright
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentali
Souls under Siege
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Nicole Archambeau
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Souls under Siege, Nicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredation
The Shadow Saint
Language: en
Pages: 608
Authors: Gareth Hanrahan
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-07 - Publisher: Orbit

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Thieves, dangerous magic, and a weapon built with the power to destroy a god clash in this second novel of Gareth Hanrahan's acclaimed epic fantasy series, The