Out of Obscurity

Contributor biographies Introduction Patrick Q. Mason Part I. Internationalization 1. International Legal Experience and the Mormon Theology of the State, 1945-2012 Nathan Oman 2. The Internationalization of Mormonism: Indications from India Taunalyn Rutherford Part II. Political Culture 3. Ezra Taft Benson and Modern (Book of) Mormon Conservatism Patrick Q. Mason 4. The Romney Lens: A Bifocal Approach to Mormonism, American Religion, and Politics in the Past Half-Century J. B. Haws 5. "The Puritan Ethic on High": LDS Media and the Mormon Embrace of Free Enterprise in the 20th Century James Dennis LoRusso 6. The Pageantry of Protest in Temple Square Max Perry Mueller 7. Mormons and Same-Sex Marriage: From ERA to Prop 8 Neil J. Young Part III. Gender 8. Mahana, You Naked! Modesty, Sexuality, and Race in the Mormon Pacific Amanda Hendrix-Komoto 9. Mormons and Housework during Second Wave Feminism Kate Holbrook 10. Saying Goodbye to the Final Say: The Softening and Reimagining of Mormon Male Headship Ideologies Caroline Kline 11. Blogging the Boundaries: Mormon Mommy Blogs and the Construction of Mormon Identity Kristine Haglund Part IV. Religious Culture 12. The Evangelical Countercult Movement and Mormon Conservatism Matthew Bowman 13. Holding on to the "Chosen Generation": The Mormon Battle for Youth in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s Rebecca de Schweinitz 14. Everyone Can Be a Pioneer: The Sesquicentennial Celebrations of Mormon Arrival in the Salt Lake Valley Sara M. Patterson 15. "All the truth does not always need to be told": The LDS Church, Mormon History, and Religious Authority John G. Turner Index