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Saints Under Siege

The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints

by Stuart Wright

  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Combined Academic Publishers
  • 15.3 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

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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. The anonymous caller was in fact an emotionally unstable 33-year-old woman in Colorado Springs. 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. As the first book to examine the raid on the FLDS, Saints under Siege makes a powerful contribution to both the study of New Religious Movements and the public record.
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  • Author

    Stuart Wright

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Combined Academic Publishers

  • Published

    October 2011

  • Weight

    423g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.7 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780814795293

  • ISBN-10

    0814795293

  • Eden Code

    3981011

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