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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 45
עמוד xv
... eternal learning. Smith made intellectual pursuit a quest of holiness, founding the School of Prophets, establishing a fledgling university, and devoting himself to the study of ancient languages and lore even as he claimed to bypass ...
... eternal learning. Smith made intellectual pursuit a quest of holiness, founding the School of Prophets, establishing a fledgling university, and devoting himself to the study of ancient languages and lore even as he claimed to bypass ...
עמוד 8
... eternal]19 with, God Himself.... I might with boldness proclaim from the housetop that God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all.... Intelligence is eternal and exists upon a self-existent principle. It is a spirit from ...
... eternal]19 with, God Himself.... I might with boldness proclaim from the housetop that God never had the power to create the spirit of man at all.... Intelligence is eternal and exists upon a self-existent principle. It is a spirit from ...
עמוד 9
... eternal family units presided over by exalted men and women. But wedded to his focus on a restoration of gospel truth was Joseph's particular construction of and emphasis on priesthood authority. Combining the restricted sacerdotalism ...
... eternal family units presided over by exalted men and women. But wedded to his focus on a restoration of gospel truth was Joseph's particular construction of and emphasis on priesthood authority. Combining the restricted sacerdotalism ...
עמוד 10
... eternal power, physically transmitted (by the laying on of hands) from agent to agent in a chain extending back to its primeval origin. In this world, he wrote, ''The priesthood was first given to Adam; he obtained the First Presidency ...
... eternal power, physically transmitted (by the laying on of hands) from agent to agent in a chain extending back to its primeval origin. In this world, he wrote, ''The priesthood was first given to Adam; he obtained the First Presidency ...
עמוד 17
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תוכן
THE VARIETIES OF MORMON CULTURAL EXPRESSION Beginnings 18301890 The Dancing Puritans | 63 |
THE VARIETIES OF MORMON CULTURAL EXPRESSION A Movable Zion 1890Present Pioneer Nostalgia and Beyond the American Religion | 191 |
Through the Particular to the Universal | 339 |
Notes | 345 |
397 | |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture <span dir=ltr>Terryl L. Givens</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2007 |
People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture <span dir=ltr>Terryl L. Givens</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2007 |
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הפניות לספר זה
Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction <span dir=ltr>Richard Lyman Bushman</span> תצוגה מקדימה מוגבלת - 2008 |