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In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide - Cameron Stauth
In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide
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An anonymous caller tells a detective in a small Oregon town that a woman has just bitten off a man's finger. But the man is not the victim, the caller says. The woman is. She's being held by a group of faith-healing fanatics who are trying to cure her depression with violent exorcisms. Then the... show more
An anonymous caller tells a detective in a small Oregon town that a woman has just bitten off a man's finger. But the man is not the victim, the caller says. The woman is. She's being held by a group of faith-healing fanatics who are trying to cure her depression with violent exorcisms. Then the detective gets an even more ominous message: Children in the church have been dying mysteriously for years, and now several more are in immediate peril.The caller, a church insider, risks everything to work with detectives and prosecutors to stop faith-based child abuse, joined by a mother who’d suffered a faith-healing tragedy herself and dedicated her life to saving others from it. Masterfully written by Cameron Stauth, In the Name of God is the true story of the heroic mission that exposed the darkest secret of American fundamentalism, and the political deals that let thousands of children die at the hands of their own parents--legally.Faith-healing abuse still continues around the country, but the victory in Oregon has lit the path to a better future, in which no child need die because of a parent's beliefs.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781250005793 (1250005795)
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
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4.0 In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide
Well, I've been done with this book for a while now. For a good week after reading this, I was still thinking about the book. I have to admit that my religious beliefs include belief in healing through prayer. So to read about Christian sects that exclusive believe in healing and that seeing a docto...
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