Satanic Ritual Abuse and Mormonism
Author | : Jerald Tanner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Mormon Church |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jerald Tanner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Mormon Church |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Frankfurter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0691186979 |
In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to these sinister theories, it occurred to him how strikingly similar they were to those that swept parts of the early Christian world, early modern Europe, and postcolonial Africa. He began to investigate the social and psychological patterns that give rise to these myths. Thus was born Evil Incarnate, a riveting analysis of the mythology of evilconspiracy. The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, the book uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation of evil recur in such typical patterns?" Frankfurter guides the reader through such diverse subjects as witch-hunting, the origins of demonology, cannibalism, and the rumors of Jewish ritual murder, demonstrating how societies have long expanded upon their fears of such atrocities to address a collective anxiety. Thus, he maintains, panics over modern-day infant sacrifice are really not so different from rumors about early Christians engaging in infant feasts during the second and third centuries in Rome. In Evil Incarnate, Frankfurter deepens historical awareness that stories of Satanic atrocities are both inventions of the mind and perennial phenomena, not authentic criminal events. True evil, as he so artfully demonstrates, is not something organized and corrupting, but rather a social construction that inspires people to brutal acts in the name of moral order.
Author | : Martha Beck |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307237982 |
Leaving the Saints is an unforgettable memoir about one woman’s spiritual quest and journey toward faith. As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders—known as the apostles—and her existence was framed by their strict code of conduct. Wearing her sacred garments, she married in a secret temple ceremony—but only after two Mormon leaders ascertained that her “past contained no flirtation with serious sins, such as committing murder or drinking coffee.” She went to church faithfully with the other brothers and sisters of her ward. When her son was born with Down syndrome, she and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Provo, Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them. However, soon after Martha began teaching at Brigham Young University, she began to see firsthand the Church’s ruthlessness as it silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Church’s most prominent authorities. This book chronicles her difficult decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had cradled her for so long and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply. This beautifully written, inspiring memoir explores the powerful yearning toward faith. It offers a rare glimpse inside one of the world’s most secretive religions while telling a profoundly moving story of personal courage, survival, and the transformative power of spirituality.
Author | : Colin A. Ross |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780802073570 |
. Although Dr. Ross has found no evidence of a widespread Satanic network, he is open to the possibility that a certain percentage of his patients' memories may be entirely or partially historically accurate. In treatment, he recommends that the therapist adopt an attitude hovering between disbelief and credulous entrapment.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Adult child sexual abuse victims |
ISBN | : |
The first issue deals with sexual abuse within the membership and leadership of the Mormon Church.
Author | : Michelle Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1989-07-15 |
Genre | : Recovered memory |
ISBN | : 9780671694333 |
"A best-seller, Michelle Remembers was the first book written on the subject of satanic ritual abuse and is an important part of the controversies beginning in the 1980s regarding satanic ritual abuse and "recovered" memory. The book has subsequently been discredited by several investigations which found no corroboration of the book's events, and that the events described in the book were extremely unlikely and in some cases impossible. ... Soon after the book's publication, Pazder was forced to withdraw his assertion that it was the Church of Satan that had abused Smith when Anton LaVey (who founded the church years after the alleged events of Michelle Remembers) threatened to sue for libel"--Wikipedia.
Author | : Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2019-12-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004424806 |
The horrifying idea of child sacrifice, and the offering to the gods of a beloved only son by his father is a theme which appears repeatedly in Western traditions. This book focuses on religious rituals of violence, imagined and real.
Author | : William H. Kennedy |
Publisher | : Reviviscimus |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Child sexual abuse by clergy |
ISBN | : 9780900588068 |
Many people are not only appalled but puzzled by the Catholic pedoplilia scandal. What could explain the Church's ongoing tendency to protect molesters, even after they have brought that institution to the brink of ruin? William H. Kennedy may have the answer: that behind some of the molestations lies a cabal of Satanists operating within the Catholic Church, sometimes with the protection of high Church officials. Fr. Malachi Martin (Windswept House; Hostage to the Devil), Fr. Charles Fiore (a traditional Catholic priest), and Fr. Alfred Kunz to investigate charges of pedophilia within the Catholic Church, years before the scandal broke. These men believed they had solid evidence that some of the pedophilia was the work of organized Satanists. Fr. Kunz who hosted the Catholic Family Hour radio program in Wisconsin through which he attempted to expose pedophile priests, was murdered in March of 1998, just before Fr. Fiore was to take over the program, effectively silencing both of them. In view of the recent publication of major reports on the Catholic pedophile scandal, which have left many victims unsatisfied, and increasing news coverage of priestly sexual abuse with ritualistic elements, no book could be more timely than Lucifer's Lodge.
Author | : Lawrence Wright |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2011-04-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307790673 |
In 1988 Ericka and Julie Ingram began making a series of accusations of sexual abuse against their father, Paul Ingram, who was a respected deputy sheriff in Olympia, Washington. At first the accusations were confined to molestations in their childhood, but they grew to include torture and rape as recently as the month before. At a time when reported incidents of "recovered memories" had become widespread, these accusations were not unusual. What captured national attention in this case is that, under questioning, Ingram appeared to remember participating in bizarre satanic rites involving his whole family and other members of the sheriff's department. Remembering Satan is a lucid, measured, yet absolutely riveting inquest into a case that destroyed a family, engulfed a small town, and captivated an America obsessed by rumors of a satanic underground. As it follows the increasingly bizarre accusations and confessions, the claims and counterclaims of police, FBI investigators, and mental health professionals. Remembering Satan gives us what is at once a psychological detective story and a domestic tragedy about what happens when modern science is subsumed by our most archaic fears.
Author | : Walter Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
A comprehensive reference work containing a thorough analysis of all the major cults and the significant minor cults.