Stuart A. Wright and James T. Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814795286
- eISBN:
- 9780814795309
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814795286.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This book explores the issues arising from the paramilitary-style raid launched by Texas state police and the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) on April 3, 2008, against the ...
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This book explores the issues arising from the paramilitary-style raid launched by Texas state police and the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) on April 3, 2008, against the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado. The Yearning for Zion Ranch is a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a Mormon sect known for its practice of polygamy. State officials claimed that the raid was conducted in response to allegations of a “widespread pattern and practice” of child sexual abuse and underage marriage within the FLDS. The book analyzes the Texas raid in a broader sociological context by comparing it with other government raids on new or minority religions both historically and across cultures. It argues that the Texas raid was only one example of social intolerance and state repression of unpopular minority faiths in general, and the FLDS in particular.Less
This book explores the issues arising from the paramilitary-style raid launched by Texas state police and the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) on April 3, 2008, against the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado. The Yearning for Zion Ranch is a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a Mormon sect known for its practice of polygamy. State officials claimed that the raid was conducted in response to allegations of a “widespread pattern and practice” of child sexual abuse and underage marriage within the FLDS. The book analyzes the Texas raid in a broader sociological context by comparing it with other government raids on new or minority religions both historically and across cultures. It argues that the Texas raid was only one example of social intolerance and state repression of unpopular minority faiths in general, and the FLDS in particular.
James Marten (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479894147
- eISBN:
- 9781479804078
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479894147.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers ...
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In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation's top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. This book explores both nineteenth-century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. The book offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the book foregrounds the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them.Less
In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a “search for order,” as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation's top priorities should be its children and youth, who, they believed, suffered more from the disorder plaguing the rapidly growing nation than any other group. This book explores both nineteenth-century conditions that led Progressives to their search for order and some of the solutions applied to children and youth in the context of that search. The book offers case studies relevant to educational reform, child labor laws, underage marriage, and recreation for children, among others. Including important primary documents produced by children themselves, the book foregrounds the role that youth played in exerting agency over their own lives and in contesting the policies that sought to protect and control them.
