Saints under Siege: The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints
Two of the most dramatic, disruptive, and disturbing government raids against controversial new religious sects in America occurred fifteen years apart in Texas, and they raise complex issues for those concerned about religious freedom and civil liberties in America. In 1995, in Armageddon at Waco,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 4, Pages: 680-682 |
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| Summary: | Two of the most dramatic, disruptive, and disturbing government raids against controversial new religious sects in America occurred fifteen years apart in Texas, and they raise complex issues for those concerned about religious freedom and civil liberties in America. In 1995, in Armageddon at Waco, Stuart A. Wright edited an outstanding set of scholarly essays that analyzed and contextualized the first of those events—the federal raid against the Branch Davidian community near Waco in 1993 that led to a 51-day militarized standoff, the death of 86 group members, and the near-total destruction of the sect. In Saints under Siege: The Texas Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, Stuart A. Wright and James T. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css095 |