Bibliograph

Leaving the witness, exiting a religion and finding a life, Amber Scorah

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Leaving the witness, exiting a religion and finding a life, Amber Scorah

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Leaving the witness

Oclc number

1097367246

Responsibility statement

Amber Scorah

Sub title

exiting a religion and finding a life

Summary

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

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