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The oracle's daughter : the rise and fall of an American cult / Harrison Hill.
Van Pelt - New Book Display BL2525 .H55 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Harrison (Journalist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Green, Deborah.
- Green, Sarah.
- Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps.
- Cults--United States--History--20th century.
- Cults.
- Religious militants--United States.
- Religious militants.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 331 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2026.
- Summary:
- "On a cool fall night in 1999, twenty-six-year-old Sarah Green crept out of her house, retrieved a backpack from its hiding place, and ran for her life. She was escaping not just the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, a paramilitary religious cult operating out of the New Mexico desert, but also the punishments and cruelty of the cult's leader - her mother, Deborah. In The Oracle's Daughter, Harrison Hill traces the fascinating beginnings and violent end of ACMTC, from its early days as an outgrowth of the 1960s counterculture to its descent into conspiracy-fueled abuse. This is the story of three women - Deborah, the group's founder and self-proclaimed oracle; Maura, one of its first members; and Sarah, Deborah's daughter - bound together by a punitive, baroque set of radical beliefs and practices, including exorcism, kidnapping, and the horrific mistreatment of those who fell out of the leaders' favor. With a dramatic, deeply researched narrative tracing the strange twists and turns of the country's religious development, The Oracle's Daughter illuminates the porous boundary between the fringe and the mainstream - and shows how much more vulnerable we are to extremism than we might like to think" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Signs and wonders
- The blessing
- Born again
- Deliverance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 166801887X
- 9781668018873
- OCLC:
- 1523199234
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