Sojourner in the Promised Land
Forty Years Among the Mormons
Published on 29. December 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-0-252-07383-0 (ISBN)
Description
Infused with Jan Shipps's lively curiosity, scholarly rigor, and contagious fascination with a significant subculture, Sojourner in the Promised Land presents a distinctive parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time shares with the reader what it has been like to be on the outside of a culture that remains both familiar and strange.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
9 line drawings, 2 tables
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-252-07383-0 (9780252073830)
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E-Book
04/2024
University of Illinois Press
€18.49
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Person
Jan Shipps is the president of the American Society of Church History and professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and coeditor of The Journals of William E. McLellin.
Content
CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowlegmentsPrologue1. Gentiles, Mormons, and the History of the American WestPART 1: STUDIES IN PERCEPTION2. From Satyr to Saint" American Perceptions pf the Mormons, 1860-19603. Surveying the Mormon Image since 19604. From Gentile to Non-Mormon: Mormon Perceptions of the Other5. Media Coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention in Salt Lake CityPART 2: HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND WRITING ABOUT RELIGIOUS HISTORY6. History, Her-story, and Their Story7. A Capsule Bibliography of Mormonism8. Remembering, Recovering, and Inventing What Being a People of God Means: Reflections on Method in the Scholarly Writing of Religious History9. Dangerous History: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Her Mormon Sisters10. Thoughts about the Academic Community's Response to John Brooke's Refiner's FirePART 3: PUTTING RELIGION AT THE HEART OF MORMON HISTORY AND HISTORY AT THE HEART OF MORMONISM11. The Reality of the Restoration in LDS Theology and Mormon Experience12. Brigham Young and His Times: A Continuing Force in Mormonism13. The Scattering of the Gathering and the Gathering of the Scattered: The Mid-Twentieth-Century Mormon DiasporaPART 4: DECIPHERING, EXPLICATING, CLARIFYING: EXERCISING AN INSIDE-OUTSIDER'S INFORMAL CALLING14. Joseph Smith and the Creation of LDS Theology15. Difference and Otherness: Mormonism and the American Religious MainstreamPART 5: HOW MY MIND WAS CHANGED AND MY UNDERSTANDING AMPLIFIED16. Is Mormonism Christian?: Reflections on a Complicated Question17. Knowledge and UnderstandingEpilogue: PassagesBack cover