Introduction: Responses to the Branch Davidian Tragedy
Introductory Essays
Chapter 1: The Crime of Piety: Wounded Knee to Waco
Chapter 2: Misinterpreting Religious Commitment
Chapter 3: Tailhook and Waco: A Commentary
Understanding the Branch Davidians
Chapter 4: The Waco Tragedy: An Autobiographical Account of One Attempt to Avert Disaster
Chapter 5: The Davidian Dilemma -- To Obey God or Man?
Chapter 6: The Davidian Tradition
Millennialism and the Waco Confrontation
Chapter 7: Reflections after Waco: Millennialists and the State
Chapter 8: The Millennial Dream
Chapter 9: Varieties of Millennialism and the Issue of Authority
Law Enforcement and Tactical Assessments
Chapter 10: Cult Label and Waco Violence Inevitable
Chapter 11: What Went Wrong in Waco? Poor Planning, Bad Tactics Result in Botched Raid
Chapter 12: Killed by Semantics: Or Was it a Keystone Kop Kaleidescope Kaper?
Chapter 13: Showdown at the Waco Corral: ATF Cowboys Shoot Themselves in the Foot
Chapter 14: Misguided Tactics Contributed to Apocalypse in Waco
Mass Suicide?
Chapter 15: Excavating Waco
Chapter 16: Who Started the Fires? Mass Murder, American Style
Chapter 17: Fanning the Flames of Suspicion: The Case against Mass Suicide at Waco
The Role of the Anti-cult Movement
Chapter 18: The Mythology of Cults
Chapter 19: &Cults,& &Mind Control,& and the State
Chapter 20: The Cult Awareness Network: Its Role in the Waco Tragedy
Dynamics and Impact of the Media
Chapter 21: The Media and New Religious Movements
Chapter 22: Television and Metaphysics at Waco
Chapter 23: Waco and the War of the Worlds: Media Fantasy and Modern Reality
Polygamy and Accusations of Child Abuse
Chapter 24: A More Righteous Seed: A Comparison of Polygamy among Branch Davidians and the Fundamentalist Mormons
Chapter 25: Who Committed Child Abuse at Waco?
Chapter 26: Suffer the Little Children
Academic Reflections
Chapter 27: Lessons from Waco: When Will We Ever Learn?
Chapter 28: Why Did Waco Happen?
Chapter 29: Reflections on the Waco Disaster: Trying to Make Sense of Insane Events
Chapter 30: Deconstructing Waco
Chapter 31: Did the G-Men Sleep Through SOC 100?
Chapter 32: Reflections on the Tragedy at Waco
Chapter 33: How Future Wacos Might Be Avoided: Two Proposals
Chapter 34: Sticks 'n Stones May Break Your Bones but Words CAN Really Hurt You
Selected Responses
Chapter 35: Christian Holocaust
Chapter 36: Open Season on Messiahs?
Chapter 37: Waco Probe Should Not Be Used to Define Religion
Chapter 38: A New Religious Movement's Response to the Waco Tragedy
Chapter 39: Church Universal and Triumphant Not Like Branch Davidians
Chapter 40: FBI Uses &Cults& as Bait
Chapter 41: Waco: Bill Clinton's Bay of Pigs
Selected Letters to Public Officials
Chapter 42: Letter James Dunn and Dean M. Kelly to President Clinton
Chapter 43: Letter from Dean M. Kelly to Donald Edwards
Chapter 44: Letter from Laura Murphy Lee to Jack Brooks
Chapter 45: Letter from Edward C. Lehman, Jr. to Janet Reno
Chapter 46: Letter from Larry Shinn to Donald Edwards
Epilogue: A Fiery Ending
Title: From the ashes : making sense of Waco / James R. Lewis, editor. Published: Lanham, MD. : Rowman & Littlefield, c1994. Description: xvi, 269 p. ; 24 cm. LC Call No.: BP605.B72F76 1994 Dewey No.: 976.4/284063 20 ISBN: 0847679144 (cloth : alk. paper) 0847679152 (pbk. : alk. paper) Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993. Branch Davidians. Koresh, David, 1959-1993. Control No.: 93048400
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