Mormon Americana
Author | : David J. Whittaker |
Publisher | : Brigham Young University Studies |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : David J. Whittaker |
Publisher | : Brigham Young University Studies |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Joanna Brooks |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-08-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451699697 |
From her days of feeling like “a root beer among the Cokes”—Coca-Cola being a forbidden fruit for Mormon girls like her—Joanna Brooks always understood that being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints set her apart from others. But, in her eyes, that made her special; the devout LDS home she grew up in was filled with love, spirituality, and an emphasis on service. With Marie Osmond as her celebrity role model and plenty of Sunday School teachers to fill in the rest of the details, Joanna felt warmly embraced by the community that was such an integral part of her family. But as she grew older, Joanna began to wrestle with some tenets of her religion, including the Church’s stance on women’s rights and homosexuality. In 1993, when the Church excommunicated a group of feminists for speaking out about an LDS controversy, Joanna found herself searching for a way to live by the leadings of her heart and the faith she loved. The Book of Mormon Girl is a story about leaving behind the innocence of childhood belief and embracing the complications and heartbreaks that come to every adult life of faith. Joanna’s journey through her faith explores a side of the religion that is rarely put on display: its humanity, its tenderness, its humor, its internal struggles. In Joanna’s hands, the everyday experience of being a Mormon—without polygamy, without fundamentalism—unfolds in fascinating detail. With its revelations about a faith so often misunderstood and characterized by secrecy, The Book of Mormon Girl is a welcome advocate and necessary guide.
Author | : J.B. Haws |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199897646 |
What do Americans think about Mormons - and why do they think what they do? This is a story where the Osmonds, the Olympics, the Tabernacle Choir, Evangelical Christians, the Equal Rights Amendment, Sports Illustrated, and even Miss America all figure into the equation. The book is punctuated by the presidential campaigns of George and Mitt Romney, four decades apart. A survey of the past half-century reveals a growing tension inherent in the public's views of Mormons and the public's views of the religion that inspires that body.
Author | : Matthew Burton Bowman |
Publisher | : Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Mormon Church |
ISBN | : 0679644903 |
A religious historian explores the 180-year history of Mormonism, discussing the church's origins and development, its position as one of the fastest growing religions in the world, and its connection to American life.
Author | : Terryl Givens |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2003-09-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195168887 |
Finally, in exploring what Martin Marty refers to as the Book of Mormon's "revelatory appeal," Givens highlights the Book's role as the engine behind what may become the next world religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Alex Beam |
Publisher | : Public Affairs |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1610393139 |
On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood. At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting the Church of Latter-day Saints and creating his own “Golden Bible” – the Book of Mormon – he had worked as a water-dowser and treasure hunter. He’d led his people to Ohio, then Missouri, then Illinois, where he founded a city larger than fledgling Chicago. He was running for President. And, secretly, he had married more than thirty women. In American Crucifixion, Alex Beam tells how Smith went from charismatic leader to public enemy: how his most seismic revelation – the doctrine of polygamy – created a rift among his people; how that schism turned to violence; and how, ultimately, Smith could not escape the consequences of his ambition and pride. Mormonism is America’s largest and most enduring native religion, and the “martyrdom” of Joseph Smith is one of its transformational events. Smith’s brutal assassination propelled the Mormons to colonize the American West and claim their place in the mainstream of American history. American Crucifixion is a gripping story of scandal and violence, with deep roots in our national identity.
Author | : David J. Whittaker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Latter Day Saints |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas W. Simpson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1469628643 |
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life. At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism's sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.
Author | : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : Mormon Church |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ronald Warren Walker |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Latter Day Saint churches |
ISBN | : 9780252026195 |