From the Outside Looking In
Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Published on 5. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-0-19-024466-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains fifteen essays, each first presented as the annual Tanner lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association by leading historians and religious studies scholars, approaching Mormon history from a wide variety of angles, from gender to globalization. Renowned in their own fields but relatively new to the study of Mormon history at the time of their lecture, the scholars bring their own expertise to understanding Mormonism's past and present. Examining Mormon history from an outsider's perspective, they ask intriguing questions, share fresh insights and perspectives, analyze familiar sources in unexpected ways, and place Mormonism in broader scholarly debates.
Several essays place Mormonism within the currents of American religious history - for example, by placing Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saints in conversation with Emerson, Nat Turner, fellow millenarians, and freethinkers. Other essays explore the creation of Mormon identities, demonstrating how Mormons created a unique sense of themselves as a distinct people. Historians of the American West examine Mormon connections with American imperialism, the Civil War, and the cultural landscape. Finally, essayists study recent Latter-day Saint growth around the world in recent decades, including in Africa, within the context of the study of global religions.
Several essays place Mormonism within the currents of American religious history - for example, by placing Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saints in conversation with Emerson, Nat Turner, fellow millenarians, and freethinkers. Other essays explore the creation of Mormon identities, demonstrating how Mormons created a unique sense of themselves as a distinct people. Historians of the American West examine Mormon connections with American imperialism, the Civil War, and the cultural landscape. Finally, essayists study recent Latter-day Saint growth around the world in recent decades, including in Africa, within the context of the study of global religions.
Reviews / Votes
From the Outside Looking In is an accurate title that will open windows for historically minded non-LDS readers. * Douglas Davies, Theology *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
744 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-024466-8 (9780190244668)
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Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
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Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
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Matthew J. Grow | Reid L. Neilson
From the Outside Looking In
Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
E-Book
10/2015
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€18.49
Available for download
Persons
Reid L. Neilson is Assistant Church Historian and Recorder/Managing Director in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew J. Grow is the Director of Publications in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Matthew J. Grow is the Director of Publications in the Church History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Author
Assistant Church Historian and Recorder/Managing DirectorAssistant Church Historian and Recorder/Managing Director, Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT
Editor
Assistant Church Historian and Recorder/Managing DirectorAssistant Church Historian and Recorder/Managing Director, Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, UT
Content
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 ca. 1830: 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 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