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Prophet's Daughter:

My Life With Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant (Google eBook)
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Globe Pequot, Sep 24, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 286 pages
In early 1990, in response to apocalyptic prophecies given by her mother, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Erin Prophet entered a network of underground bunkers in Montana along with members of her mother's Church Universal and Triumphant, a controversial New Age sect. Emerging to find the world still intact, Erin was forced into a radical reassessment of her life and her beliefs. She had spent her adolescence watching her mother vilified as a dangerous cult leader even while attempting to meet her expectations by becoming a "prophet" herself. Prophet's Daughter describes Erin's search for her mother's origins and motivations. With the craft of a storyteller, she describes the combination of health crises and external pressure that drove her mother's ever-more dire prophecies. She reveals how the allure of infallibility led her mother to a conspicuous downfall, and how her mother's rapidly progressing Alzheimer's disease truncated any hope of resolution. A remarkable memoir with implications for the dialog about power, group behavior and the future of religion.
 
  

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Review: Prophet's Daughter: My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant

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Erin Prophet has written a fascinating expose of life with her parents Mark and Elizabeth Prophet, and her brother and sisters, in the cultish environment they created. I have studied ECP's works for ... Read full review

Review: Prophet's Daughter: My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet Inside the Church Universal and Triumphant

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Mostly for research, but this book is actually really interesting in that Erin does not want to totally vilify her mother or her mother's religion, when this was clearly a pretty out there cult.

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About the author (2008)

Erin Prophet coauthored the New Age favorite Reincarnation: The Missing Link in Christianity. As the longtime spokesperson of her mother's church, she appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Donahue. Today she leads a low-profile life in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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