Synopsis
The story of three teenage boys who manage to escape a polygamist Mormon cult in Utah. The boys talk about the extraordinary lives they used to live while part of the sect.
- Programme: Storyville
- Episode: Leaving The Cult
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2010
- Sociology | How are religion, belief and faith defined and measured? | Defining religion, faith and belief. Different types of religious institutions, organisations and movements: churches and denominations; sects and cults; new religious movements; new age movements; religious fundamentalism.
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