Title A kingdom transformed : early Mormonism and the modern LDS Church / Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd

Edition Second edition Published Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Contents 1. Mormon prophetic rhetoric and the institution of LDS General Conference -- 2. Parallel paths : LDS General Conference and Mormon history -- 3. The social-historical context of Mormon beliefs -- 4. Utopia, family, and authority : the major rhetorical themes of LDS General Conferences -- 5. Mormon commitment mechanisms -- 6. Patterns of Mormon commitment rhetoric -- 7. Mormon accommodation -- 8. Mormon responses to secularization -- 9. Contemporary developments : LDS Conference trends from 1980-2009 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : content analysis procedures for obtaining and evaluating a representative sample of LDS General Conference Addresses, 1830-1979 -- Appendix B : listing of addresses in the LDS conference sample -- Appendix C : General Conference topic index with salience scores for thirty-year periods, 1830-1979 Summary "The evolution of LDS doctrinal emphases uncovered through content analysis. To survive in an often disapproving external social world, the LDS Church has made many adaptive changes in belief, practice, and organization over time. Gordon and Gary Shepherd identify and elucidate these changes through statistical analysis of the rhetoric from General Conference proceedings in their book. The first edition of A Kingdom Transformed, published in 1984, covered the years 1830 to 1979. This new edition revises this earlier work and adds to it by examining the subsequent thirty years of LDS church rhetoric revealing what new trends have emerged and what old ones have continued. It retains the summary and analysis of data from the first 150 years of LDS Church history, but every chapter, including the narrative history of early Mormonism, has been thoroughly rewritten with updated theoretical and empirical support from contemporary research sources. The first edition showed how early twentieth century LDS leaders were fairly liberal in mainstreaming church doctrines and social teaching, but by mid-twentieth century, as the church became more stable, accepted, and successful, church authorities reversed several earlier modifications and began emphasizing a stricter, more conservative theology that coincided with an increasingly conservative political orientation. The new book adds current issues of concern, such as the role of women in the church and international growth versus member retention. It also introduces a new conceptual framework for interpreting findings"-- Provided by publisher Subject Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History SUBJECT Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints fast Subject Christian sociology -- Latter Day Saint churches -- History Social change -- History Latter Day Saint churches -- History RELIGION / Christianity / Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Christian sociology -- Mormon Church Mormon Church Social change Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Shepherd, Gary, 1943- ISBN 9781607814450 1607814455

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