Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : the incident at Eldorado, Texas / Cardell K. Jacobson and Lara Burton -- A repeat of history : a comparison of the Short Creek and Eldorado raids on the FLDS / Martha Sonntag Bradley -- One vision : the making, unmaking, and remaking of a fundamentalist polygamous community / Heber B. Hammon and William Jankowiak -- Twenty years of observations about the fundamentalist polygamists / Ken Driggs -- History, culture, and variability of Mormon schismatic groups / Janet Bennion -- Differing polygamous patterns : nineteenth-century LDS and twenty-first-century FLDS marriage systems / Kathryn M. Daynes -- Demographic, social, and economic characteristics of a polygamist community / Tim B. Heaton and Cardell K. Jacobson -- The many faces of polygamy : an analysis of the variability in modern Mormon fundamentalism in the intermountain west / Janet Bennion -- "What love got to do with it?" : earthly experience of celestial marriage, past and present / Carrie A Miles -- Social scientific perspectives on the FLDS rain and the corresponding media coverage / Ryan T. Cragun and Michael Nielsen -- Learning the wrong lessons : a comparison of FLDS, Family International, and Branch Davidian child-protection interventions / Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd -- The international fight against barbarism : historical and comparative perspectives on marriage timing, consent, and polygamy / Arland Thornton -- Child protection law and the FLDS raid in Texas / Linda F. Smith -- The intricacies and ethics of parental genetic testing / Deborah L. Cragun and Ryan T. Cragun.

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