| Description |
1 online resource (439 pages) |
| Contents |
The free seekers : religious culture in upstate New York, 1790-1835 / Alan Taylor -- Prophets in America ca. 1830 : Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith / Richard H. Brodhead -- Historical reflections on Mormon futures / Stephen J. Stein -- Catherine A. Brekus, Mormon women and the problem of historical agency -- Mormons, freethinkers, and the limits of toleration / Leigh Schmidt -- The construction of the Mormon people / Charles L. Cohen -- Becoming Mormon / Elliott West -- "Faith in the religion of their fathers" : passing Mormonism from one generation to the next / Randall Balmer -- What the Mormon cultural landscape can teach us / Dell Upton -- Thoughts from the farther West : Mormons, California, and the Civil War / William Deverell -- The Mormons and America's empires / Walter Nugent -- Mormon stories : a librarian's perspective / George A. Miles -- The Latter-day Saints, the doughnut, and post-Christian Canada / David B. Marshall -- Letting go : understanding Mormon growth in Africa / Philip Jenkins -- "Would that all God's people were prophets" : Mormonism and the new shape of global Christianity / Jehu J. Hanciles |
| Summary |
This book contains fifteen essays, each first presented as the annual Tanner Lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association by a leading scholar. Renowned in their own specialties but relatively new to the study of Mormon history at the time of their lectures, these scholars approach Mormon history from a wide variety of perspectives, including such concerns as gender, identity creation, and globalization. Several of these essays place Mormon history within the currents of American religious history--for example, by placing Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saints in conversation |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fast |
| Subject |
Latter Day Saint churches -- History
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
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Mormon Church
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Neilson, Reid L., 1972- editor.
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Grow, Matthew J., editor
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| ISBN |
9780190244675 |
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0190244674 |
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