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Title Saints under siege : the Texas State raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints / edited by Stuart A. Wright and James T. Richardson
Published New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) : illustrations
Series The new and alternative religions series
New and alternative religions series.
Contents The past as prologue : a comparison of the Short Creek and Eldorado polygamy raids / Martha Bradley Evans -- Rescuing children? : government raids and child abuse allegations in historical and cross-cultural perspective / Susan J. Palmer -- The struggle for legitimacy : tensions between the LDS and FLDS / Ryan T. Cragun, Michael Nielsen and Heather Clingenpeel -- Reader responses to the yearning for Zion Ranch raid and its aftermath on the websites of the Salt Lake tribune and the Desert news / Michael William Hamilton -- Deconstructing official rationales for the Texas State raid on the FLDS / Stuart A. Wright -- Texas redux : a comparative analysis of the FLDS and Branch Davidian raids / Stuart A. Wright and Jennifer Lara Fagen -- Large scale FLDS raids : the dangers and appeal of crime control theater / Camille Brown and Carlene Gonzales -- Strategic dissolution and the politics of opposition : parallels in the state raids on the Twelve Tribes and the FLDS / Jean Swantko Wiseman -- Political and legislative context of the FLDS raid in Texas / James T. Richardson and Tamatha L. Scheinert -- Pyrrhic victory? : an analysis of the appeal court opinions concerning the FLDS children / Tamatha L. Schreinert and James T. Richardson
Summary 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 st
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Notes English
Print version record
Subject Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- History -- 21st century
SUBJECT Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints fast
Fundamentalistische Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage. idszbz
Subject Church and state -- Texas -- Eldorado Region -- History -- 21st century
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
Church and state
Kirche.
Staat.
Razzia.
Ermittlungsverfahren.
SUBJECT Eldorado Region (Tex.) -- Church history -- 21st century
Subject Texas.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author Wright, Stuart A.
Richardson, James T., 1941-
LC no. 2011015727
ISBN 9780814795309
0814795307