In Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith, Martha Beck recounts her experiences in the Mormon church. As the daughter of a highly respected Mormon apologist, the Mormon faith played a foundational role in Beck’s life. She left Utah to study at Harvard, then moved back to teach...
It's not often these days that I stay up all night to finish a book. "Leaving the Saints" was so gripping that I did just that.PhD sociologist Martha N. Beck tells the story of growing up as the child of one of the LDS church's "general authorities," and of all the social pressures on her to be the...
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