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* Reprinted with the permission of The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen—A Study of Gurus by Anthony Storr. Copyright 1996 by Anthony Storr.
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* Published by the American Psychiatric Association, DSM-IV functions as the bible of the mental-health professions.
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* Of course, many have argued that psychiatry is itself simply a variety of secular faith—religion for the nonreligious.
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* This exchange took place in the Provo Courthouse on April 2, 1996, with Dan Lafferty on the witness stand, during the retrial of Ron Lafferty.
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* This biblical allegory, more commonly known as the parable of the weeds (“tare” is a synonym for a noxious weed that infests fields of grain), appears in Matthew 13:24. It tells how one night when everyone was sleeping, Satan sowed weeds through the wheat fields of the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus instructed his followers to let the weeds grow with the wheat “until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: ‘First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn.' ” Dan Lafferty, it bears mentioning, is by no means the only zealot enamored of this parable. Brian David Mitchell, the Mormon Fundamentalist who abducted fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart in 2002, cited it in his tract, The Book of Immanuel David Isaiah: “. . . there has been corruption and perversion in the priesthood. For Satan doth creep in unawares and doth sow tares among the wheat. . . .”
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* A horror of miscegenation is something Mormon Fundamentalists have in common with their Mormon brethren: even after LDS President Spencer W. Kimball's 1978 revelation reversing the church doctrine that banned blacks from the priesthood, official LDS policy has continued to strongly admonish white Saints not to marry blacks. Make no mistake: the modern Mormon church may now be in the American mainstream, but it usually hugs the extreme right edge of the flow.
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Krakauer, Jon.
Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith / Jon Krakauer.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Mormon fundamentalism. I. Title.
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KENNETH ANDERSON: Excerpts from the articles “The Magic of the Great Salt Lake” by Kenneth Anderson, published in the Times Literary Supplement, March 24, 1995; and “A Peculiar People: The Mystical and Pragmatic Appeal of Mormonism” by Kenneth Anderson, published in the Los Angeles Times, November 28, 1999. Reprinted by permission of Kenneth Anderson.
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Excerpts from Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans by R. Laurence Moore. Copyright © 1987 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Used by permission of Oxford University Press, Inc.
TIM FITZPATRICK AND THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: Excerpts from the articles “Widespread Search Under Way for American Fork Murder Suspect” by Mike Gorrell and Ann Shields, and “Neighbors Recall Changes in Murder Suspect, 42,” both published in the Salt Lake Tribune, July 26, 1984; and “Two Murders a Religious Revelation?” by Ann Shields, published in the Salt Lake Tribune, July 28, 1984. Reprinted by permission of Tim Fitzpatrick and the Salt Lake Tribune.
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