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 87
עמוד xi
... faith, and not by sight.'' Then he asked, ''Do you, as individuals, at this time, want to choose a Prophet or a guardian to lead you?'' No one raised a hand. ''Elder Rigdon claims to be spokesman to the Prophet,'' he continued: Very ...
... faith, and not by sight.'' Then he asked, ''Do you, as individuals, at this time, want to choose a Prophet or a guardian to lead you?'' No one raised a hand. ''Elder Rigdon claims to be spokesman to the Prophet,'' he continued: Very ...
עמוד xiii
... faith to develop a distinctive mode of self-expression.''6 Mormonism has been around for nearly two centuries. While it is still a new religious community compared to the great world faiths and even to Protestant denominations, many ...
... faith to develop a distinctive mode of self-expression.''6 Mormonism has been around for nearly two centuries. While it is still a new religious community compared to the great world faiths and even to Protestant denominations, many ...
עמוד xvi
... faith with America's providential role in history. Mormon origins, the Book of Mormon as artifact and as history, church headquarters, the garden of Eden, and the New Jerusalem—all are identified with a specifically American locale. But ...
... faith with America's providential role in history. Mormon origins, the Book of Mormon as artifact and as history, church headquarters, the garden of Eden, and the New Jerusalem—all are identified with a specifically American locale. But ...
עמוד xvii
... faith is acquiring in over 100 countries where it is currently practiced, have led me to focus on Mormonism as the essentially American religion it was until the current generation. I express the sincere hope that scholars better ...
... faith is acquiring in over 100 countries where it is currently practiced, have led me to focus on Mormonism as the essentially American religion it was until the current generation. I express the sincere hope that scholars better ...
עמוד 9
... faith in God unto life and salvation,'' he believed).25 Among other things, this correct idea would entail a radically unorthodox rendering of the godhead as three distinct individuals (God and Christ both having corporeal form). Added ...
... faith in God unto life and salvation,'' he believed).25 Among other things, this correct idea would entail a radically unorthodox rendering of the godhead as three distinct individuals (God and Christ both having corporeal form). Added ...
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 |
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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 |