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English
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"I Constructed in My Mind a Vast, Panoramic Picture" : The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint and Postmodern, Postdenominational Mormonism
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Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University Press
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144-162
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"Clearly, Mormonism is experienced locally. Indeed, instead of relying on existing condemnatory or hagiographic metanarratives, it would be better to assume that adherents experience any religion in ways mediated by social forces and individual proclivities. Consequently, a religiously marked literary character's experience would not speak to the theological claims made by that character's religion in a totalizing way. Such a portrayal of localized Mormonism exists in The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. In this novel, Brady Udall creates a postmodern, postdenominational version of Mormonism that is compelling precisely because it caricatures the religion while still granting it a level of spiritual validity." [From author's introduction]