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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792238403321

Autore

Givens Terryl

Titolo

People of paradox : a history of Mormon culture / / Terryl L. Givens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007

ISBN

0-19-988325-4

0-19-991598-9

1-281-15638-8

0-19-803736-8

1-4356-1953-6

9786611156381

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 pages)

Disciplina

700.88/2893

Soggetti

Latter Day Saint arts

Arts and religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-395) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foundations and paradoxes in Mormon cultural origins -- The varieties of Mormon cultural expression.

Sommario/riassunto

Terryl Givens traces the rise and development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, through Brigham Young's founding of the Territory of Deseret on the shores of Great Salt Lake, to the spread of the Latter-Day Saints around the globe.