{"product_id":"oracles-daughter-harrison-hill-9781668018873","title":"The Oracle's Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gripping chronicle of the rise and fall of a woman-led cult--and the enduring allure of extremism across America's turbulent religious history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Oracle's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003e The Oracle's Daughter \u003c\/i\u003eilluminates 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.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49991122026689,"sku":"9781668018873","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9781668018873.jpg?v=1771450654","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/oracles-daughter-harrison-hill-9781668018873","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}