03133nam 2200493 450 991046108860332120200520144314.00-19-049345-30-19-024467-4(CKB)3710000000468225(EBL)2198491(MiAaPQ)EBC2198491(Au-PeEL)EBL2198491(CaPaEBR)ebr11093794(CaONFJC)MIL825976(OCoLC)920166529(EXLCZ)99371000000046822520150210h20162016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFrom the outside looking in essays on Mormon history, theology, and culture /edited by Reid L. Neilson and Matthew J. GrowNew York, NY :Oxford University Press,[2016]©20161 online resource (439 p.)Includes index.0-19-024466-6 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.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 Mormon ChurchHistoryElectronic books.Mormon ChurchHistory.289.309Neilson Reid Larkin1972-Grow Matthew J.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461088603321From the outside looking in1991723UNINA