Jim Phillips

Murdering Holiness

The Trials of Franz Creffield and George Mitchell

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Produktbeschreibung

Murdering Holiness explores the story of the "Holy Roller" sect led by Franz Creffield, a charismatic, self-styled messiah, in the early years of the 20th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780774809078
• ISBN-10: 0774809078
• Artikelnr.: 58619693

Autorenporträt

Jim Phillips is director of the Centre of Criminologyand a professor in the Faculty of Law and Department of History at theUniversity of Toronto. Rosemary Gartner is a professorat the Centre of Criminology and the Department of Sociology at theUniversity of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Cast of Principal Characters
 
1. Introduction
2. The Creffield Sect in Corvallis, 1903
3. Driving Out the Sect: The Triumph of the White Caps, 1903-4
4. "Sensualist Practices Prescribed and Ordained as Coming fromHeaven": Sex
and the Creffield Sect
5. Disciplining the Sect: Invoking Insanity Law, 1904
6. Revival and Revenge, January to May 1906
7. Seattle Prepares for Trial, May and June 1906
8. Justifiable Homicide and the Unwritten Law: Seattle Debates theMitchell
Case
9. The Trial of George Mitchell, Part 1: Jury Selection and the Casefor the
Prosecution
10. The Trial of George Mitchell,
 
Part 2: The Unwritten Law
11. "And the Evil That Men Do Lives After Them": The Deathof George
Mitchell
12. The Law, Maud Creffield, and Esther Mitchell
 
Epilogue
Appendix: The Creffield Sect Membership
Notes
Bibliography
Index