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Leaving the witness : exiting a religion and finding a life

Title: Leaving the witness : exiting a religion and finding a life / Amber Scorah.
Author: Scorah, Amber
Publication: [New York] : Viking, [2019]

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Description

279 pages; 22 cm

Summary

A first book by the creator of the "Dear Amber" podcast describes her strict upbringing as a third-generation Jehovah's Witness and her efforts to find her true place in the world apart from the edicts of her family and faith.
A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She took the message to China, where immersion in a foreign language and culture turned her world upside down, and eventually led her to lose all that she had been sure was true. Beginning to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world, her loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse. Shunned by family and friends as an apostate, Scorah was thrown into a world she had only known from the periphery. Here she examines what it's like to start one's life over again with an entirely new identity, trying to find meaning in the absence of religion.-- adapted from jacket

Alternative Title

Leaving the Jehovah's Witness

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Call Number

JFD 19-4843

ISBN

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OCLC

1097367246

Author

Scorah, Amber, author.

Title

Leaving the witness : exiting a religion and finding a life / Amber Scorah.

Publisher

[New York] : Viking, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 279).

Other Standard Identifier

40029276861

Research Call Number

JFD 19-4843