|
|
Product Description
This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God.At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Features
- Used Book in Good Condition
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Buddha (Penguin Lives Biographies)
- Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time
- The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics
- Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
- Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
- Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
- Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way
- Into the Wild
- Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk
*If this is not the "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Oct 31, 2024 22:42 +08.
