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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. 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.

Church and state --- Christianity and state --- Separation of church and state --- State and church --- History --- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints --- FLDS --- Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints --- Iglesia Fundamentalista de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días --- Eldorado (Texas) --- Church history --- State, The --- 21st century. --- Eldorado Region (Tex.) --- 21st century --- Eldorado Region (Texas) --- Church and state - Texas - Eldorado Region - History - 21st century --- Eldorado Region (Tex.) - Church history - 21st century --- Short Creek raid --- children --- government raids --- child abuse --- the LDS --- the Salt lake Tribune --- the Deseret News --- the Texas State raid on the FLDS --- the Branch Davidian raid --- FLDS raids --- the Twelve Tribes --- the Appeal Court --- the FLDS children --- Eldorado polygamy raid --- the Yearning for Zion Ranch raid --- crime control theater

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"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Why do religions fail or die? Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores this important question that has received little scholarly attention to date. International contributors provide case studies from the United States, England, Sweden, Japan, New Guinea, and France resulting in a work that explores processes of attenuation, disintegration, transmutation, death, and extinction across cultures. These include: instances where mass suicides or homicides resulted in religious dissolution; the fall of Mars Hills Church and its larger-than-life megachurch pastor, accused of plagiarism and bullying in 2012; the death of the last member of the Panacea Society in England in 2012; and the disintegration of Knutby Filadelfia, a religious community in Sweden with Pentecostal roots that ceased to exist in May 2018 after a pastor shot his wife. Combining case studies and theoretical contributions, The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate fills a gap in literature to date and paves the way for future research."-- Provided by publisher.

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"This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Why do religions fail or die? Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this book explores this important question that has received little scholarly attention to date. International contributors provide case studies from the United States, England, Sweden, Japan, New Guinea, and France resulting in a work that explores processes of attenuation, disintegration, transmutation, death, and extinction across cultures. These include: instances where mass suicides or homicides resulted in religious dissolution; the fall of Mars Hills Church and its larger-than-life megachurch pastor, accused of plagiarism and bullying in 2012; the death of the last member of the Panacea Society in England in 2012; and the disintegration of Knutby Filadelfia, a religious community in Sweden with Pentecostal roots that ceased to exist in May 2018 after a pastor shot his wife. Combining case studies and theoretical contributions, The Demise of Religion: How Religions End, Die, or Dissipate fills a gap in literature to date and paves the way for future research."-- Provided by publisher.

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religion --- new religious movements (NRM) --- sects --- cults --- religion and culture --- history of religion --- Aum Shinrikyo (オウム真理教) --- Shoko Asahara (麻原彰晃) --- Japan --- Japanese new religious movements --- sarin --- Asahara Shoko (麻原彰晃) --- shinshūkyō (新宗教) --- Aleph --- Hikari no Wa (光の輪) --- doomsday cults --- irreligion --- non-belief --- atheism --- unbelief --- philosophy --- culture and religion --- end of religion --- religious demise --- demise of religion --- Sweden --- Urapmin (Papua New Guinea) --- indigenous religions --- Knutby Filadelfia (Sweden) --- Pentecostal movements --- Åsa Waldau --- Panacea Society (UK) --- Bedford (UK) --- Millenarianist movements --- denominationalization --- Jesus Fellowship Church (JF) --- Children of God (COG) --- Children of God (The Family) --- The Family International (TFI) --- The Family of Love --- child abuse --- child sexual abuse --- Mars Hill Church (Seatle) --- Christian megachurches --- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho) --- Osho Rajneesh --- Rajneeshpuram --- rajneeshism --- religion and government --- Branch Davidians --- Waco (Texas) --- United Nuwaubian Nation (Georgia) --- Yearning for Zion (YFZ) --- Yearning for Zion Ranch (YFZ) --- Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) --- Horus (France) --- Mandarom (France) --- Centre for the Teaching of Biodynamism (France) --- Amour et Misericorde (France) --- mass suicides --- mass homicides --- collective violence --- Jonestown (Guyana) --- Order of the Solar Temple (OTS) --- Heaven's Gate --- suicide cults --- Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTCG)