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Broken faith : inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, one of America's most dangerous cults / Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr.
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative jouranlist with the Associated Press comes an investigation into Jane Whaley's Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelic cult that destroyed the lives of its congregants through a combination of manipulation, blackmail and violence, and a dramatic portrait of those who escaped. For readers of Lawrence Wright's 'Going Clear'.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781335145239 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 411 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Hanover Square Press, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Word of Faith Fellowship. Cults > United States. Ex-cultists. Offenses against the person. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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An investigation into the Word of Faith Fellowship cult traces its 1979 origins through its expansion across three continents, sharing insights into Jane Whaleyâs abusive and absolute control over her followers. 100,000 first printing. - Harlequin
*An NPR Best Book of the Year*
A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020
“I can’t imagine a more important book.”—Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author
An explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader is a master of manipulation
In 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a promise that she could turn their lives around.
In the years since, Whaley’s following has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continents. In their eyes she’s a prophet. And to disobey her means eternal damnation.
The control Whaley exerts is absolute: she decides what her followers study, where they work, whom they can marry—even when they can have sex.
Based on hundreds of interviews, secretly recorded conversations, and thousands of pages of documents, Pulitzer Prize winner Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr’s Broken Faith is a terrifying portrait of life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades. - Harlequin
*An NPR Best Book of the Year*
A PopSugar Best True Crime Book of 2020
"I can't imagine a more important book.''Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author
An explosive investigation into Word of Faith Fellowship, a secretive evangelical cult whose charismatic female leader is a master of manipulation
In 1979, a fiery preacher named Jane Whaley attracted a small group of followers with a promise that she could turn their lives around.
In the years since, Whaley's following has expanded to include thousands of congregants across three continents. In their eyes she's a prophet. And to disobey her means eternal damnation.
The control Whaley exerts is absolute: she decides what her followers study, where they work, whom they can marry'even when they can have sex.
Based on hundreds of interviews, secretly recorded conversations, and thousands of pages of documents, Pulitzer Prize winner Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr's Broken Faith is a terrifying portrait of life inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, and the harrowing account of one family who escaped after two decades.
