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050	0	4	_aBX8680.K89.U534 2003
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100	1		_aKrakauer, Jon, _e1
245	1	0	_aUnder the banner of heaven : _ba story of violent faith / _cJon Krakauer. _hPR
250			_afirst edition.
260			_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c(c)2003.
300			_axxiii, 372 pages : _bmaps ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_a1 (pages 351.-358) and index.
520	0		_aJon 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 b3sdivinely inspiredb4s 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 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
520	0		_acompelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.
530			_a2
650		0	_aMormon fundamentalism.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random050/2003043824.html _zContributor biographical information
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0413/2003043824.html _zPublisher description
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell