People of Paradox: A History of Mormon CultureOxford University Press, 29 באוג׳ 2007 - 432 עמודים In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the rise and development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, through Brigham Young's founding of the Territory of Deseret on the shores of Great Salt Lake, to the spread of the Latter-Day Saints around the globe. Throughout the last century and a half, Givens notes, distinctive traditions have emerged among the Latter-Day Saints, shaped by dynamic tensions--or paradoxes--that give Mormon cultural expression much of its vitality. Here is a religion shaped by a rigid authoritarian hierarchy and radical individualism; by prophetic certainty and a celebration of learning and intellectual investigation; by existence in exile and a yearning for integration and acceptance by the larger world. Givens divides Mormon history into two periods, separated by the renunciation of polygamy in 1890. In each, he explores the life of the mind, the emphasis on education, the importance of architecture and urban planning (so apparent in Salt Lake City and Mormon temples around the world), and Mormon accomplishments in music and dance, theater, film, literature, and the visual arts. He situates such cultural practices in the context of the society of the larger nation and, in more recent years, the world. Today, he observes, only fourteen percent of Mormon believers live in the United States. Mormonism has never been more prominent in public life. But there is a rich inner life beneath the public surface, one deftly captured in this sympathetic, nuanced account by a leading authority on Mormon history and thought. |
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... religious commitment, personal sacrifice, and distinctive religious practices have welded the adherents of Mormonism into a people who so powerfully identify with one another that one writer did not hesitate to call them the only ...
... religious commitment, personal sacrifice, and distinctive religious practices have welded the adherents of Mormonism into a people who so powerfully identify with one another that one writer did not hesitate to call them the only ...
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... religion making. The Prophet emphasized in his religious thinking the possibility of epistemological certainty even as he elaborated a theology of audacious scope and a program of eternal learning. Smith made intellectual pursuit a ...
... religion making. The Prophet emphasized in his religious thinking the possibility of epistemological certainty even as he elaborated a theology of audacious scope and a program of eternal learning. Smith made intellectual pursuit a ...
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... religious liberty to the whole of the human race. Love of liberty was diffused into my soul by my grandfathers while ... religions of the world, it is probably the primeval conflict between good and evil. Christianity has long contended ...
... religious liberty to the whole of the human race. Love of liberty was diffused into my soul by my grandfathers while ... religions of the world, it is probably the primeval conflict between good and evil. Christianity has long contended ...
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... religious culture, as in Jacksonian America generally, any theory that privileged individual responsibility over ... religion had for Americans. This elevation of the individual, this “new importance given to the single person” was, in ...
... religious culture, as in Jacksonian America generally, any theory that privileged individual responsibility over ... religion had for Americans. This elevation of the individual, this “new importance given to the single person” was, in ...
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... the spiritual. As one religious historian has remarked, “Puritanism and its Reformedpietist successors” frequently engaged in the project of “rebuilding Christendom by making towns and eventually nations into virtually Christian.
... the spiritual. As one religious historian has remarked, “Puritanism and its Reformedpietist successors” frequently engaged in the project of “rebuilding Christendom by making towns and eventually nations into virtually Christian.
תוכן
Searching | |
The Sacred and | |
Election | |
PART II | |
Architecture and City Planning | |
Music and Dance | |
Literature | |
Visual Arts | |
PART III | |
Architecture | |
Theater and Film | |
Literature | |
Visual Arts | |
Through the Particular to the Universal | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture <span dir=ltr>Terryl L. Givens</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2007 |
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