Under the Banner of Heaven

A Story of Violent Faith

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Remarkable . . . for anyone interested in the wilder frontiers of spiritual conviction, this book is a must. Independent

Brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty insist they were commanded to kill by God. In Under The Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer's investigation is a meticulously researched, bone-chilling narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith: an incisive look inside isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities in America, this gripping work of non-fiction illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behaviour.

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Ron and Dan Lafferty killed Brenda Lafferty and her 18-month-old daughter, Erica, while acting on a divine revelation. Krakauer's even, breezy, investigative style plumbs the the depths of the grotesque Lafferty murder and other horrors done under the banner of heaven.

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Subjects

  • Mormon fundamentalism
  • TRUE CRIME
  • Murder
  • Religious fundamentalism
  • General
  • Fundamentalisme
  • Geweldsdelicten
  • Mormonen
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Church of jesus christ of latter-day saints
  • Mormons
  • Violence, religious aspects