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English
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The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
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New York, NY
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
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336
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With Mormonism on the nation's radar as never before, religious historian Matthew Bowman has written an essential book that pulls back the curtain on more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church's origins and explains how the Mormon vision has evolved--and with it the esteem in which Mormons have been held in the eyes of their countrymen. Admired on the one hand as hardworking paragons of family values, Mormons have also been derided as oddballs and persecuted as polygamists, heretics, and zealots. The place of Mormonism in public life continues to generate heated debate, yet the faith has never been more popular. One of the fastest-growing religions in the world, it retains an uneasy sense of its relationship with the main line of American culture.
Mormons will surely play an even greater role in American civic life in the years ahead. The Mormon People comes as a vital addition to the corpus of American religious history--a frank and balanced demystification of a faith that remains a mystery for many.
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A Brief History of the Mormon Smile
A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
A Harmony of Voices : Negotiating Latter-day Saint Unity on Women’s Suffrage
A Kingdom Transformed : Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
'America Reads' and the Book of Mormon
“A More Universal Sisterhood” : Latter-day Saints in the National Council of Women, 1888–1987
Another Look at Joseph Smith's First Vision
Authority in Mormonism : A Rational Choice Analysis
Books of Mormon: Latter-day Saints, Latter Day Saints, and the Book of Mormon
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Church History from the International Periphery: The South American Perspective
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) (Mormonism)
Church Unity and the Challenge of Cultural Diversity : A View from across the Sahara
Coming Out Mormon : An Examination of Religious Orientation, Spiritual Trauma, and PTSD among Mormons and Ex-Mormon LGBTQQA Adults
Contemporary Developments : LDS Conference Trends from 1980-2009
Contest and Controversy in the Creation of the Brigham Young University Jerusalem Center
Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century
Dorian : A Peculiar Edition with Annotated Text and Scholarship
Early Mormonism's Expansive Family and the Browett women
Eternal Progression : Mormonism and American Progressivism
Eternity in the Ether
Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal
Exceptionally Queer : Mormon Peculiarity and US Exceptionalism
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
Ex-Mormon Narratives and Pastoral Apologetics
Expanding Research for the Expanding International Church
Explaining Mormonism: A Believing Skeptic's Guide to the Latter-day Saint Worldview
Ezra Taft Benson, Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Emergence of a Conspiracy Culture within the Mormon Church
Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere : The Gülen Movement and the Mormon Church
First to Vote : Utah's Unique Place in the Suffrage Movement
Foundations of the Restoration : Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes
Foundations of the Restoration : Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes : the 45th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857–1907
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857-1907
Gender, Belief Level, and Priesthood Authority in the LDS Church
Global Mormonism : A Historical Overview
Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
“In Their Promised Canaan Stand” : Outlawry, Landscape, and Memory in C. C. A. Christensen’s Mormon Panorama
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Irish Mormons: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism
Joseph Fielding Smith’s Evolving Views on Race: The Odyssey of a Mormon Apostle-President
Kingdom of Nauvoo : The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism
Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator
Mapping the Extent of Plural Marriage in St. George, 1861-1880
Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France
Media as compromise : a cultural history of Mormonism and new communication technology in twentieth-century America
Mormon cinema : Origins to 1956
Mormon Conquest : Whites and Natives in the Intermountain West
Mormon Hermeneutics: Five Approaches to the Bible by the LDS Church
Mormonism
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America
Mormons, Musical Theatre and Belonging in America
Mormons, Musical Theatre, and Belonging in America
Mormon Studies as an Academic Discipline
Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Navigating Mormonism's Gendered Theology and Practice : Mormon Women in a Global Context
Non-Traditional Families
No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America
Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Parallel Paths : LDS General Conference and Mormon History
Patterns of Mormon Commitment Rhetoric
Perspectives on Latter-day Saints Names and Naming: Names, Identity, and Belief
Polygamy in the Nation's Capitol : Protestant Women and the 1899 Campaign against B.H. Roberts
Polygamy’s Impact on Mortality : Modeling Polygamous Mortality in the Great Basin
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Seeing Things: Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism
Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport :
Intellectual journeys of a Mormon academic
Spiritualizing Electronic Scripture In Mormonism
Staging the Saints : Mormonism and American Musical Theater
Standing Apart : Mormon Historical Consciousness And The Concept Of Apostasy
Summing Up : Problems and Prospects for a Global Church in the Twenty-first Century
Tabernacles of Clay : Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Testimony and Theology : The Mormon Struggle with America's Civil Religion
The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition (book)
The Book of Enoch "Revised, Corrected, and the Missing Parts Restored"
The Book of Mormon, the Early Nineteenth-Century Debates over Universalism, and the Development of the Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments
The Cold War and the Invention of Free Agency
The Cold War and the Invention of Free Agency
The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America
The Dynamics of LDS Growth in the Twenty-First Century
The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
The Landscape of Modern Mormonism: Understanding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through Its Twentieth-Century Architecture
The Latter-day Saints, the Doughnut, and Post-Christian Canada
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
The Medium Is the Institution : Reflections on an Ethnography of Mormonism and Media
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Church in Utah
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Next Mormons : How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
"The Prophet Said to Plant a Garden": Spencer W. Kimball and the Transformation of the Mormon Agrarian Tradition
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
The Spirituality of Sport : Los Mormones in Argentina, 1938–1943
The Worldwide Church : Mormonism as a Global Religion
Thunder From the Right : Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
"To Dress It and to Keep It" : Toward a Mormon Theology of Work
True and Faithful : Joseph Fielding Smith as Mormon Historian and Theologian
Utopia, Family, and Authority : The Major Rhetorical Themes of LDS General Conference
Watchman on the Tower : Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
"We do not love war, but ..." : Mormons, the Great War, and the crucible of nationalism
"We Do Not Love War, But ..." : Mormons, the Great War, and the Crucible of Nationalism
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
What Is Women's Relationship to Priesthood?
What Jane James Saw
What Size of City, and What Sort of City, Could (or Should) the City of Zion Be?
Why Denominations Can Climb Hills: RLDS Conversions in Highland Tribal India and Midwestern America, 1964–2000
William Bickerton's Cooperative Views on Scripture and Revelation
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Women and Religious Organization: A "Microbiological" Approach to Influence
Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology
Zion : The Progressive Roots of Mormon Correlation