Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith

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Label

Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith

Title remainder

a story of violent faith

Statement of responsibility

Jon Krakauer

Creator

• Krakauer, Jon

Author

• Krakauer, Jon

Subject

• Mormons -- United States
• Murder -- Religious aspects
• Religious fanaticism -- United States
• True crime stories
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Violence -- Religious aspects
• Mormon fundamentalism

Genre

• True crime stories

Language

eng

Summary

Jon Krakauer takes readers inside isolated American communities where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

289.3/3

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Intended audience

1350

Intended audience source

Lexile

Interest level

High School

LC call number

BX8680.M54

LC item number

K73 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Reading level

10.

Study program name

Reading Counts RC

Target audience

adult