Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

15 reviews

pearlisarobot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Violence, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, Racism, Rape, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Hate crime, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Alcohol, Death, Incest, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

jamiejanae_6's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Colonisation, Death, Incest, Murder, Pedophilia, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Sexism, Xenophobia, and Sexual assault

badbookstagrammer's review

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Incest, Child death, Rape, and Murder

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

eegred's review against another edition

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Blood, Sexual violence, Sexism, Incest, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, Stalking, and Kidnapping

Minor: Animal cruelty

bseigel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Racism, Gun violence, Violence, Child death, Incest, Racial slurs, and Child abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Domestic abuse

firstknight's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Racial slurs, Sexual harassment, Death, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Incest, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Child death, Hate crime, and Murder

Moderate: Miscarriage, Self harm, Drug use, Gun violence, Genocide, and Drug abuse

bat11692's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.5

3.5 ⭐️ This book was an informative deep dive into the history of the church of Latter Day Saints. I think it sort of misrepresents itself by being marketed as a true crime book. True, it does focus on the murders committed by the fundamentalist LDS Lafferty brothers. But the majority of the book is the genesis of Mormonism, which I’m interested in, but maybe not to this extent. All in all, a shocking and enjoyable book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Gore, and Murder

daishaspencer's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

This book captured my attention right away as someone with family ties to the Mormon church. John’s writing isn’t linear, but that of a season journalist which he is. If you have a fascination with Mormonism, religious extremes, and the domino effect that it has this is the book for you. It can be challenging to follow the timeline and different people this book follows, so don’t pick this up as casual read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Trafficking, and Violence

laurenleigh's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

Thanks @greta.Humphrey for the rec! This book was wild. I knew the basic storyline of Joseph Smith and the birth of Mormonism, but there was SO much I didn’t know. Fair warning, there are a number of sad, bloody, gruesome details in this book. Krakauer is not just focused on the history of Mormonism, but on all the ways the religion has been used as a justification for violence, both past and present. I was most interested to learn about the differences between the current day mainstream LDS church and the fundamentalist offshoots. It might be easy to read this book and condemn or judge any current Mormons, but seemingly no religion is removed from violent pasts or present extremists. Not that any of that is excusable of course. My main problem with the text was its structure (too much chronological hopping for me), but I also understand Krakauer’s reasonings for writing it so.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Death, Death of parent, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Misogyny, Xenophobia, Rape, Trafficking, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Adult/minor relationship, Violence, Mental illness, Racism, Racial slurs, Incest, Homophobia, and Colonisation

Minor: Animal death and Animal cruelty

lomur98's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Incest, Violence, and Stalking

Minor: Xenophobia, Racism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis