TY - BOOK ID - 7152600 TI - Saints Under Siege AU - Richardson, James T AU - Wright, Stuart A PY - 2011 SN - 0814795307 9780814795286 0814795285 9780814795293 0814795293 9780814795309 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Church and state KW - Christianity and state KW - Separation of church and state KW - State and church KW - History KW - Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints KW - FLDS KW - Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints KW - Iglesia Fundamentalista de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días KW - Eldorado (Texas) KW - Church history KW - State, The KW - 21st century. KW - Eldorado Region (Tex.) KW - 21st century KW - Eldorado Region (Texas) KW - Church and state - Texas - Eldorado Region - History - 21st century KW - Eldorado Region (Tex.) - Church history - 21st century KW - Short Creek raid KW - children KW - government raids KW - child abuse KW - the LDS KW - the Salt lake Tribune KW - the Deseret News KW - the Texas State raid on the FLDS KW - the Branch Davidian raid KW - FLDS raids KW - the Twelve Tribes KW - the Appeal Court KW - the FLDS children KW - Eldorado polygamy raid KW - the Yearning for Zion Ranch raid KW - crime control theater UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7152600 AB - 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. ER -