Item Detail
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24256
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English
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The Early Mormon Theatre
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Quarterly Journal of Speech
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1958
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44
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40-49
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Robertson explains the reasons why, in an age when religion generally frowned upon theatre, the Mormon Church was so supportive of it. He outlines these reasons as: 1) Mormon leaders stressed that physical and temporal welfare were important to spiritual welfare, 2) Mormons were socially isolated and thus could form their own ideas free from the dominant influences at the time, 3) because of the harsh persecution Mormons endured, they found relief from forgetting the harsh facts of their rigorous life, and 4) the Mormon community came to be composed of many racial and cultural strains, so this contributed to new ways of activity.