Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Random House Large Print) - Hardcover

Krakauer, Jon

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ISBN 10: 0375432213 ISBN 13: 9780375432217

Verlag: Random House Large Print, 2003

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Book by Krakauer Jon

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Traces the events that surrounded the 1984 murder of a woman and her child by fundamentalist Mormons Ron and Dan Lafferty, exploring the belief systems and traditions, including polygamy, that mark the faith's most extreme factions and what their practices reflect about the nature of religion in America. (True Crime)

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’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, and Mexico, where some for

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• Verlag: Random House Large Print
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375432213
• ISBN 13: 9780375432217
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 665