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Under the Banner of Heaven

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Under the Banner of Heaven: : A Story of Violent Faith

de Krakauer, Jon

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Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, writing on rear endpaper, else clean square tight unmarked./DJ VG: spot stain on front, mild age toning, not clipped.
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0385509510
ISBN 13
9780385509510
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New York: Doubleday, 2003. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, writing on rear endpaper, else clean square tight unmarked./DJ VG: spot stain on front, mild age toning, not clipped.. 8vo 372pp. from front flap: "...At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by a pair of Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this crime, Krakauer constructs a multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, and unyielding faith. In the process, he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest growing religion, analyzes the abduction of fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart (and fher forced "marriage" to her polygamous kidnapper), and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief." #02118.

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Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief within our own borders. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this"divinely inspired" crime, Krakauer constructs a multilayered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion,savage violence, polygamy, 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.Krakauer takes readers inside isolated communities in the American West, Canada, andMexico, where some forty-thousand Mormon Fundamentalists believe the mainstream Mormon Church went unforgivably astray when it renounced polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the leaders of these outlaw sects are zealots who answer only to God. Marrying prodigiously and with virtual impunity (the leader of the largest fundamentalist church took seventy-five "plural wives," several of whom were wed to him when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties), fundamentalist prophets exercise absolute control over the lives of their followers, and preach that any day now the world will be swept clean in a hurricane of fire, sparing only their most obedient adherents. Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism's violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the most successful homegrown faith in the United States, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism. The result is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.From the Hardcover edition.

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Librería
Matthew's Books LLC US (US)
Inventario del vendedor #
2056
Título
Under the Banner of Heaven
Autor
Krakauer, Jon
Formato/Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Estado del libro
Usado - Book VG: mild shelf wear to boards and spine, writing on rear endpaper, else clean square tight unmarked.
Estado de la sobrecubierta
DJ VG: spot stain on front, mild age toning, not clipped.
Cantidad disponible
1
Encuadernación
Unknown
ISBN 10
0385509510
ISBN 13
9780385509510
Editorial
Doubleday
Lugar de publicación
New York
Fecha de publicación
2003
Palabras clave
true crime, nonfiction, Mormonism, religion

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