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Auteur

JEFFS, Rachel

Titel

Breaking Free. How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult, and My Father, Warren Jeffs

Type document

Boek

Nummer ISBN/ISBD

978-0-06-267052-6

ISSN

Uitgever

Harper Collins Publishers

Uitgaveplaats

New York, NY

Publicatiejaar

2017

Pagina's

289

Bijlagen

Nummer van het werk

SEK-SEK-B0692-00113

Taal van het werk

Engels

Vindplaats

B 0692/00113

Rubrieknaam

B0692 protestantisme NRM Mormonen - protestantisme NRM mormons - Protestantism Latter Day Saints - P

Dossiernummer

1052

Samenvatting

In this searing memoir of survival in the spirit of Stolen Innocence, the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet of the FLDS Church, takes you deep inside the secretive polygamist Mormon fundamentalist cult run by her family and how she escaped it.

Born into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Rachel Jeffs was raised in a strict patriarchal culture defined by subordinate sister wives and men they must obey. No one in this radical splinter sect of the Mormon Church was more powerful or terrifying than its leader Warren Jeffs - Rachel’s father.

Living outside mainstream Mormonism and federal law, Jeffs arranged marriages between under-age girls and middle-aged and elderly members of his congregation. In 2006, he gained international notoriety when the FBI placed him on its Ten Most Wanted List. Though he is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, Jeffs' iron grip on the church remains firm, and his edicts to his followers increasingly restrictive and bizarre.

In 'Breaking Free', Rachel blows the lid off this taciturn community made famous by Jon Krakauer's bestselling 'Under the Banner of Heaven' to offer a harrowing look at her life with Warren Jeffs, and the years of physical and emotional abuse she suffered. Sexually assaulted, compelled into an arranged polygamous marriage, locked away in 'houses of hiding' as punishment for perceived transgressions, and physically separated from her children, Rachel, Jeffs' first plural daughter by his second of more than fifty wives, eventually found the courage to leave the church in 2015. But 'Breaking Free' is not only her story - Rachel's experiences illuminate those of her family and the countless others who remain trapped in the strange world she left behind.

A shocking and mesmerizing memoir of faith, abuse, courage, and freedom, 'Breaking Free' is an expose of religious extremism and a beacon of hope for anyone trying to overcome personal obstacles.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Free-Escaped-Polygamy-Father/dp/0062670522

Samenvatting

Author's note
Prologue

1. You could drive a car through my family tree
2. Sins of the Father
3. Mind games
4. Rebellion
5. Keep your enemy close
6. Heavenly Father offers a blessing
7. Wedding
8. Love, plural style
9. The Prophet rises

10. Plural wife
11. Do you have cows?
12. Land of refuge
13. This is what hell feels like
14. The good years
15. The raid
16. Life goes on
17. The noose tightens
18. Purgatory
19. Back in the fold

20. Solitary confinement
21. Enough
22. Flirting with damnation
23. Sister secret
24. First one out
25. Over the wall
26. Answered prayers

Epilogue

Family tree
Acknowledgments

Website(s) in overeenstemming met het werk

http://hc.com

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