Stolen Innocence My Story Of Growing Up In A Polygamous Sect Becoming A Teenage Bride And Breaking Free
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Stolen Innocence My Story Of Growing Up In A Polygamous Sect Becoming A Teenage Bride And Breaking Free
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Author : Elissa Wall
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009-03-13
Stolen Innocence My Story Of Growing Up In A Polygamous Sect Becoming A Teenage Bride And Breaking Free written by Elissa Wall and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-13 with True Crime categories.
A tale of survival and freedom, Stolen Innocence is the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life.
Stolen Innocence
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Author : Elissa Wall
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
Stolen Innocence written by Elissa Wall and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“Both creepy…and quite moving.” —New York Times Book Review “Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.” —People Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith.
Stolen Innocence My Story Of Growing Up In A Polygamous Sect Becoming A Teenage Bride And Breaking Free
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Author : Elissa Wall
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2009-03-13
Stolen Innocence My Story Of Growing Up In A Polygamous Sect Becoming A Teenage Bride And Breaking Free written by Elissa Wall and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-13 with True Crime categories.
A tale of survival and freedom, Stolen Innocence is the story of one heroic woman who stood up for what was right and reclaimed her life.
Breaking Free
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Author : Rachel Jeffs
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Breaking Free written by Rachel Jeffs and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it. Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader Warren Jeffs—Rachel’s father. Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between under-age girls and middle-aged and elderly members of his congregation. In 2006, he gained international notoriety when the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List. Though he is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, Jeffs’ iron grip on the church remains firm, and his edicts to his followers increasingly restrictive and bizarre. In Breaking Free, Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by Jon Krakauer’s bestselling Under the Banner of Heaven to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs, and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in "houses of hiding" as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel, Jeffs’ first plural daughter by his second of more than fifty wives, eventually found the courage to leave the church in 2015. But Breaking Free is not only her story—Rachel’s experiences illuminate those of her family and the countless others who remain trapped in the strange world she left behind. A shocking and mesmerizing memoir of faith, abuse, courage, and freedom, Breaking Free is an expose of religious extremism and a beacon of hope for anyone trying to overcome personal obstacles.
Modern Polygamy In The United States
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Author : Cardell Jacobson
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2011-03-09
Modern Polygamy In The United States written by Cardell Jacobson and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-09 with Family & Relationships categories.
"At last some light, not just heat, about America's new polygamy scandal, its roots and ramifications. Both well reasoned and well written, this book shows the people and the principles at stake. It will change how you think about both."--Kathleen Flake, Associate Professor of American Religious History, Vanderbilt University --Book Jacket.
Lost Boy
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Author : Brent W. Jeffs
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2009-05-19
Lost Boy written by Brent W. Jeffs and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet’s compound—and the harsh exile existence that so many boys face once they have been expelled by the sect. Brent Jeffs is the nephew of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the FLDS. The son of a prominent family in the church, Brent could have grown up to have multiple wives of his own and significant power in the 10,000-strong community. But he knew that behind the group’s pious public image—women in chaste dresses carrying babies on their hips—lay a much darker reality. So he walked away, and was the first to file a sexual-abuse lawsuit against his uncle. Now Brent shares his courageous story and that of many other young men who have become “lost boys” when they leave the FLDS, either by choice or by expulsion. Brent experienced firsthand the absolute power that church leaders wield—the kind of power that corrupts and perverts those who will do anything to maintain it. Once young men no longer belong to the church, they are cast out into a world for which they are utterly unprepared. More often than not, they succumb to the temptations of alcohol and other drugs. Tragically, Brent lost two of his brothers in this struggle, one to suicide, the other to overdose. In this book he shows that lost boys can triumph and that abuse and trauma can be overcome, and he hopes that readers will be inspired to help former FLDS members find their way in the world.
Escape
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Author : Carolyn Jessop
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-01-19
Escape written by Carolyn Jessop and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE HARROWING STORY OF ONE WOMAN'S ESCAPE FROM THE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Aged eighteen, Carolyn Jessop was forced to marry a 50-year-old stranger and religious cult member. She became one of 6 wives and bore him 8 children in 15 years. Forced to obey her controlling husband's every demand, she had no money and no power. But when Carolyn discovered that her twelve-year-old daughter had spent three days at the new cult leader's home, she knew she had to take her children and flee. At thirty-five, Carolyn escaped. This is her harrowing - and ultimately triumphant - story. 'An amazing life event that Carolyn was brave enough to tell' Reader Review 'What an emotional rollercoaster it was reading this. Sadness, horror, disbelief, shock, excitement, hope' Reader Review 'Wow! Received this book in the morning, finished it by evening' Reader Review
Answer Them Nothing
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Author : Debra Weyermann
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2011-08-01
Answer Them Nothing written by Debra Weyermann and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with History categories.
The compelling story of the struggle by law enforcement and activists to dismantle the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is finally told. In 1953, when police raided the Short Creek compound of the FLDS, it soon became a political and publicity nightmare eventually costing the governor of Arizona his job. Thus began 50 years of skittish public officials turning a blind eye to heinous offenses such as child abandonment, kidnapping, statutory rape, and incest, as well as massive tax and welfare fraud. Warren Jeffs became the new FLDS prophet and president in 2002, and anti-FLDS activists watched in horror as he used his boundless authority and the resources of a tax-supported community to devastate thousands of lives on cruel whims. This exposé presents a detailed, chilling account of how a hostile, destructive group can manipulate the U.S. judicial system. It is a mesmerizing journey into one of the United States's darkest corners, a story that stretches over three states and deep into the history of the powerful Mormon Church.
Escaping Utopia
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Author : Janja Lalich
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-01
Escaping Utopia written by Janja Lalich and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-01 with Social Science categories.
We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population.
Fundamentalism Politics And The Law
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Author : M. Rozell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-02-14
Fundamentalism Politics And The Law written by M. Rozell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-14 with Political Science categories.
This book studies the phenomenon of fundamentalism in the United States. It contains historical and contemporary scholarly analysis of the Christian movements that emerged around the time of the Moral Majority.