Saints Under Siege : : The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints / / ed. by Stuart A. Wright, James T. Richardson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bradley Evans, Martha,; Clingenpeel, Heather,; Cragun, Ryan T.,; Fagen, Jennifer Lara,; Gonzales, Carlene,; Hamilton, Michael William,; Lalasz, Camille B.,; Nielsen, Michael,; Palmer, Susan J.,; Richardson, James T.,; Schreinert, Tamatha L.,; Swantko Wiseman, Jean,; Wright, Stuart A.,
• HerausgeberIn: Richardson, James T.,; Wright, Stuart A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: North American Religions ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Abbreviations --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part One: Historical Context --; 1. The Past as Prologue: A Comparison of the Short Creek and Eldorado Polygamy Raids --; 2. Rescuing Children? Government Raids and Child Abuse Allegations in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective --; 3. The Struggle for Legitimacy: Tensions between the LDS and FLDS --; Part Two: Social and Cultural Dimensions --; 4. Reader Responses to the Yearning for Zion Ranch Raid and Its Aftermath on the Websites of the Salt Lake Tribune and the Deseret News --; 5. Deconstructing Official Rationales for the Texas State Raid on the FLDS --; 6. Texas Redux: A Comparative Analysis of the FLDS and Branch Davidian Raids --; 7. Large-Scale FLDS Raids: The Dangers and Appeal of Crime Control Theater --; Part Three: Legal and Political Perspectives --; 8. Strategic Dissolution and the Politics of Opposition: Parallels in the State Raids on the Twelve Tribes and the FLDS --; 9. Political and Legislative Context of the FLDS Raid in Texas --; 10. Pyrrhic Victory? An Analysis of the Appeal Court Opinions Concerning the FLDS Children --; About the Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814795309; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814795286.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Stuart A. Wright, James T. Richardson.

In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist branch of the Mormons. State officials claimed that the raid, which was triggered by anonymous phone calls from an underage girl to a domestic violence hotline, was based on evidence of widespread child sexual abuse. In a high-risk paramilitary operation, 439 children were removed from the custody of their parents and held until the Third Court of Appeals found that the state had overreached. Not only did the state fail to corroborate the authenticity of the hoax calls, but evidence reveals that Texas officials had targeted the FLDS from the outset, planning and preparing for a confrontation.Saints under Siege provides a thorough, theoretically grounded critical examination of the Texas state raid on the FLDS while situating this event in a broader sociological context. The volume considers the raid as an exemplar case of a larger pattern of state actions against minority religions, offering comparative analyses to other government raids both historically and across cultures. In its look beyond the Texas raid, it provides compelling evidence of social intolerance and state repression of unpopular minority faiths in general, and the FLDS in particular.