Storming Zion - Wright, Stuart A
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Storming Zion offers a compelling explanation for the growing trend of state raids on new and nontraditional religious communities. Stuart Wright and Susan Palmer base their study on a massive data set documenting 116 government raids over the last six decades, primarily in Western countries.

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Storming Zion offers a compelling explanation for the growing trend of state raids on new and nontraditional religious communities. Stuart Wright and Susan Palmer base their study on a massive data set documenting 116 government raids over the last six decades, primarily in Western countries.
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Stuart A. Wright is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Criminal Justice at Lamar University. Dr. Wright is known internationally for his research on religious and political movements, conflict and violence. He has previously published five books, including Armageddon in Waco (1995), Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing (2007) and Saints under Siege: The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (with James T. Richardson, 2011). Susan J. Palmer is Professor of Religious Studies at Dawson College as well as Affiliate Professor in the Religion Department at Concordia University. She is also a member of the Religious Studies Faculty at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. She is currently working on the research project, "Exploring Government Raids on Religious Communities", supported by the Social Sciences and the Humanities Research Council. She is the author of 10 books including Moon Sisters, Krishna Mother, Rajneesh Lovers: Women's Roles in New Religions (1994); Children in New Religions (co-edited with Charlotte Hardman, 1998); New Heretics of France (2011), and Aliens Adored: Rael's New Religion (2004).