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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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 60
עמוד 3
... heaven,'' says the writer of Revelation in the most prominent example. ''Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven'' (12:7 ...
... heaven,'' says the writer of Revelation in the most prominent example. ''Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven'' (12:7 ...
עמוד 4
... heaven are described. Abraham presents readers with an account of a celestial assemblage of unborn spirits, ''intelligences organized before the world was.''3 Joseph preferred the word ''organize'' to ''create,'' since the latter ...
... heaven are described. Abraham presents readers with an account of a celestial assemblage of unborn spirits, ''intelligences organized before the world was.''3 Joseph preferred the word ''organize'' to ''create,'' since the latter ...
עמוד 8
... heaven has so graciously bestowed upon the human family as one of its choicest gifts.''23 So it is all the more ironic that the church Joseph founded is one of the most centralized, hierarchical, authoritarian churches in America to ...
... heaven has so graciously bestowed upon the human family as one of its choicest gifts.''23 So it is all the more ironic that the church Joseph founded is one of the most centralized, hierarchical, authoritarian churches in America to ...
עמוד 10
... heaven-sent messengers. Preceding Christ's ministry, for example, John the Baptist was ordained by an angel at the age of eight days (D&C 84:28). Following the dispersal and death of Christ's personally ordained apostles, a hiatus of ...
... heaven-sent messengers. Preceding Christ's ministry, for example, John the Baptist was ordained by an angel at the age of eight days (D&C 84:28). Following the dispersal and death of Christ's personally ordained apostles, a hiatus of ...
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 |