Sex Cult Nun - Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

Informationen zum Autor Faith Jones is a lawyer, activist, entrepreneur, and business advisor. She began her career as an attorney with Skadden Arps representing clients in a wide variety of cross-border corporate transactions and has worked with businesses and government leaders in the Pacific Rim. Faith has been a featured TEDx speaker, has traveled the world, and has done humanitarian aid work in Kazakhstan, Russia, Japan, and Taiwan.  Klappentext Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and Recommended by People, TIME, USA Today, Real Simple, Glamour, Nylon, Bustle, Purewow, Shondaland, and more! Educated meets The Vow in this story of liberation and self-empowerment?an inspiring and stranger-than-fiction memoir of growing up in and breaking free from the Children of God, an oppressive, extremist religious cult. Faith Jones was raised to be part of a religious army preparing for the End Times. Growing up on an isolated farm in Macau, she prayed for hours every day and read letters of prophecy written by her grandfather, the founder of the Children of God. Tens of thousands of members strong, the cult followers looked to Faith's grandfather as their guiding light. As such, Faith was celebrated as special and then punished doubly to remind her that she was not. Over decades, the Children of God grew into an international organization that became notorious for its alarming sex practices and allegations of abuse and exploitation. But with indomitable grit, Faith survived, creating a world of her own?pilfering books and teaching herself high school curriculum. Finally, at age twenty-three, thirsting for knowledge and freedom, she broke away, leaving behind everything she knew to forge her own path in America. Honest, eye-opening, uplifting, and intensely affecting, Sex Cult Nun is a complicated family story mixed with an intimate coming-of-age narrative that brings to life a hidden world that's hypnotically alien yet unexpectedly relatable. ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Faith Jones
• Edition: William Morrow
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 08.11.2022
• EAN: 9780062952479
• ISBN: 978-0-06-295247-9
• Pages: 408
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits) > Correspondance, journaux intimes; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Memoirs, Biography: business and industry, Biography: religious and spiritual, Fashion and textile design, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: arts and entertainment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Business, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Fashion, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Culinary, PSYCHOLOGY: Social Psychology, RELIGION: WOMEN AND RELIGION, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Jewish, RELIGION: Cults, SOCIOLOGY: Sociology of Religion, Religion / Women & Religion, Sociology / Sociology of Religion