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Titolo |
From the outside looking in : essays on Mormon history, theology, and culture / / edited by Reid L. Neilson and Matthew J. Grow |
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New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-049345-3 |
0-19-024467-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (439 p.) |
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Latter Day Saint churches - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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, |
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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 |
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