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Saints under siege : the Texas State raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints
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ISBN: 0814795307 9780814795286 0814795285 9780814795293 0814795293 9780814795309 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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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.


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Modern polygamy in the United States : historical, cultural, and legal issues
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ISBN: 1283096528 9786613096524 0199830223 9780199830220 9780199746378 0199746370 9780199746385 0199746389 9781283096522 6613096520 0199831327 9780199831326 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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This book reveals the history and culture of polygamous groups located primarily in the western parts of the United States. The contributors to this volume are historians, anthropologists, and sociologists familiar with the various groups. Together, these authors provide a much needed understanding of the surprisingly large number of groups and individuals who live a quiet polygamous life style in the United States.

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