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 53
עמוד xi
... president of the Nauvoo Stake, called the meeting to choose a successor to Joseph Smith, who had been murdered in a Carthage jail together with his brother Hyrum six weeks earlier. For ninety minutes, Sidney Rigdon, one-time counselor ...
... president of the Nauvoo Stake, called the meeting to choose a successor to Joseph Smith, who had been murdered in a Carthage jail together with his brother Hyrum six weeks earlier. For ninety minutes, Sidney Rigdon, one-time counselor ...
עמוד xii
... president of the Twelve, would be the chief executive. But it would take three long years, the unprecedented orchestration of a 2,000-mile exodus, and the successful resettlement in Utah of thousands of refugees and convert immigrants ...
... president of the Twelve, would be the chief executive. But it would take three long years, the unprecedented orchestration of a 2,000-mile exodus, and the successful resettlement in Utah of thousands of refugees and convert immigrants ...
עמוד xvii
... president Spencer W. Kimball's administration, leaders, painters, and writers renewed the emphasis on the project of a Mormon artistic tradition. Equally significant for Mormon culture, Kimball's ambitious vision for an invigorated ...
... president Spencer W. Kimball's administration, leaders, painters, and writers renewed the emphasis on the project of a Mormon artistic tradition. Equally significant for Mormon culture, Kimball's ambitious vision for an invigorated ...
עמוד 13
... president over an enormous— and remote—territory that, by his death, encompassed over 100,000 followers. Critics blasted what they considered his despotic control over all affairs in Utah, both ecclesiastical and temporal. Even admirers ...
... president over an enormous— and remote—territory that, by his death, encompassed over 100,000 followers. Critics blasted what they considered his despotic control over all affairs in Utah, both ecclesiastical and temporal. Even admirers ...
עמוד 14
... president, Lorenzo Snow, in the Salt Lake Temple in 1898, and that experience was shared privately.38 But what is important is that the heritage of encounters with a physically embodied Deity who speaks his will to a prophet continues ...
... president, Lorenzo Snow, in the Salt Lake Temple in 1898, and that experience was shared privately.38 But what is important is that the heritage of encounters with a physically embodied Deity who speaks his will to a prophet continues ...
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 |