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From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (439 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190244675
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From the Outside Looking InDDC classification:
  • 289.309
LOC classification:
  • BX8611 .F76 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction by Richard Lyman Bushman -- PART 1 The American Religious Landscape -- Introduction BY REID L. NEILSON -- 1. Alan Taylor, The Free Seekers: Religious Culture in Upstate New York, 1790-1835 -- 2. Richard H. Brodhead, Prophets in America Circa 1830: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith -- 3. Stephen J. Stein, Historical Reflections on Mormon Futures -- 4. Catherine A. Brekus, Mormon Women and the Problem of Historical Agency -- 5. Leigh Eric Schmidt, Mormons, Freethinkers, and the Limits of Toleration -- PART 2 The Creation of Mormon Identities -- Introduction BY MATTHEW J. GROW -- 6. Charles L. Cohen, The Construction of the Mormon People -- 7. Elliott West, Becoming Mormon -- 8. Randall Balmer, "Faith in the Religion of Their Fathers": Passing Mormonism from One Generation to the Next -- PART 3 The Study of Western Histories -- Introduction BY MATTHEW J. GROW -- 9. Dell Upton, What the Mormon Cultural Landscape Can Teach Us -- 10. William Deverell, Thoughts from the Farther West: Mormons, California, and the Civil War -- 11. Walter Nugent, The Mormons and America's Empires -- 12. George A. Miles, Mormon Stories: A Librarian's Perspective -- PART 4 The Study of Global Religions -- Introduction BY REID L. NEILSON -- 13. David B. Marshall, The Latter-day Saints, the Doughnut, and Post-Christian Canada -- 14. Philip Jenkins, Letting Go: Understanding Mormon Growth in Africa -- 15. Jehu J. Hanciles, "Would That All God's People Were Prophets": Mormonism and the New Shape of Global Christianity -- Index.
Summary: This book contains fifteen essays from leading historians and religious studies scholars, each originally presented as the annual Tanner lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association. Approaching Mormon history from a variety of angles, such as gender, identity creation, American imperialism, and globalization, these scholars, all experts in their fields but new to the study of Mormon history itself, ask intriguing questions about Mormonism's past and future and analyze familiar sources in unexpected ways.
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Cover -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction by Richard Lyman Bushman -- PART 1 The American Religious Landscape -- Introduction BY REID L. NEILSON -- 1. Alan Taylor, The Free Seekers: Religious Culture in Upstate New York, 1790-1835 -- 2. Richard H. Brodhead, Prophets in America Circa 1830: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith -- 3. Stephen J. Stein, Historical Reflections on Mormon Futures -- 4. Catherine A. Brekus, Mormon Women and the Problem of Historical Agency -- 5. Leigh Eric Schmidt, Mormons, Freethinkers, and the Limits of Toleration -- PART 2 The Creation of Mormon Identities -- Introduction BY MATTHEW J. GROW -- 6. Charles L. Cohen, The Construction of the Mormon People -- 7. Elliott West, Becoming Mormon -- 8. Randall Balmer, "Faith in the Religion of Their Fathers": Passing Mormonism from One Generation to the Next -- PART 3 The Study of Western Histories -- Introduction BY MATTHEW J. GROW -- 9. Dell Upton, What the Mormon Cultural Landscape Can Teach Us -- 10. William Deverell, Thoughts from the Farther West: Mormons, California, and the Civil War -- 11. Walter Nugent, The Mormons and America's Empires -- 12. George A. Miles, Mormon Stories: A Librarian's Perspective -- PART 4 The Study of Global Religions -- Introduction BY REID L. NEILSON -- 13. David B. Marshall, The Latter-day Saints, the Doughnut, and Post-Christian Canada -- 14. Philip Jenkins, Letting Go: Understanding Mormon Growth in Africa -- 15. Jehu J. Hanciles, "Would That All God's People Were Prophets": Mormonism and the New Shape of Global Christianity -- Index.

This book contains fifteen essays from leading historians and religious studies scholars, each originally presented as the annual Tanner lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association. Approaching Mormon history from a variety of angles, such as gender, identity creation, American imperialism, and globalization, these scholars, all experts in their fields but new to the study of Mormon history itself, ask intriguing questions about Mormonism's past and future and analyze familiar sources in unexpected ways.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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