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Mason, Patrick Q., Turner, John G.

Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945

New York, NY

Oxford University Press

2016

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In the years since 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown rapidly in terms of both numbers and public prominence. Mormonism is no longer merely a home-grown American religion, confined to the Intermountain West; instead, it has captured the attention of political pundits, Broadway audiences, and prospective converts around the world. While most scholarship on Mormonism concerns its colorful but now well-known early history, the essays in this collection assess recent developments, such as the LDS Church's international growth and acculturation; its intersection with conservative politics in recent decades; its stances on same-sex marriage and the role of women; and its ongoing struggle to interpret its own tumultuous history. The scholars draw on a wide variety of Mormon voices as well as those of outsiders, from Latter-day Saints in Hyderabad, India, to "Mormon Mommy blogs," to evangelical "countercult" ministries. Out of Obscurity brings the story of Mormonism since the Second World War into sharp relief, explaining the ways in which a church very much rooted in its nineteenth-century prophetic and pioneering past achieved unprecedented influence in the realms of American politics and international business.

Gender roles
International church
Politics, U.S., 20th century

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Ezra Taft Benson, Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Emergence of a Conspiracy Culture within the Mormon Church
Faith Across Cultures : Research on Mormonism in Oceania
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
Toward a Catholic History of Mormonism

Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
"A Style of Our Own" : Modesty and Mormon Women, 1951-2008
"Redeemed from the Curse Placed upon Her" : Dialogic Discourse on Eve in the Woman's
Exponent
"There Is Always a Struggle" : An Interview with Chieko N. Okazaki
"Would That All God's People Were Prophets” : Mormonism and the New Shape of Global Christianity
'Changing Times Bring Changing Conditions' : Relief Society 1960 to Present
'Olelo : Women of Faith Speak
'The Abominable and Detestable Crime against Nature' : A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840-1980
'The ERA is a Moral Issue' : The Mormon Church, LDS Women, and the Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment
'The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect'
'What Though Our Rights Have Been Assailed?' Mormons, Politics, Same-Sex Marriage, and Cultural Abuse in the Sandwich Islands (Hawai'i)
'Witnessing for Christ' : The Hill Cumorah Pageant of Palmyra, New York
A Century of Mormon Theory and Practice in Church-State Relations : Constancy Amidst Change
A Chosen People, a Promised Land : Mormonism and Race in Hawai'i
A Feminist Challenge : 'Mormons for ERA' as an Internal Social Movement
A Miracle in Weekday Religious Education : A History of the Church Educational System
A Note on the 1963 Civil Rights Statement
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Rational Theology : As Taught by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Small and Piercing Voice : The Sermons of Spencer W. Kimball
A Study of Factors Which May Influence Attitudes of LDS Teen-Agers Toward Family Home Evening
A Swelling Tide : Nineteen-Year-Old Sister Missionaries in the Twenty-First Century
A Turbulent Spectrum : Mormon Reactions to the Darwinist Legacy
Adventures of a Church Historian
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
America's Saints : The Rise of Mormon Power
American Christianities : A History of Dominance and Diversity
American Grace : How Religion Divides and Unites Us
An International LDS Trio, 1974-1997
At the Pulpit : 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women
Becoming a World Religion : Blacks, the Poor, All of Us
Between Biculturalism and Assimilation : The Changing Place of Maori Culture in the Twentieth-Century New Zealand Mormon Church
Blacks in Utah History : An Unknown Legacy
Boyd K. Packer : A Watchman on the Tower
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Brigham Young University : A House of Faith
Brigham Young University : A School of Destiny
Building Zion : The Latter-day Saint Legacy of Urban Planning
By Our Rites of Worship : Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Career Apostates : Reflections on the Works of Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Celebrating Zion : Pioneers in Mormon popular historical expression
Centennial Caravan
Church Unity and the Challenge of Cultural Diversity : A View from across the Sahara
Conservative Christian Identity and Same-Sex Orientation : The Case of Gay Mormons
Contemporary Mormonism : Latter-day Saints in Modern America
Conversion and Retention in Mormonism
Cross Fire : The Eight Years with Eisenhower
Dale Morgan on the Mormons : Collected Works
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Dealing with Social Change : The Mormon Church's Response to Change in Women's Roles
Dimensions of Faith : A Mormon Studies Reader
Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Doctrines of Salvation : Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith
Enduring Believers : Czechoslovakia and the LDS Church, 1884-1990
Essentials in Church History
Ezra Taft Benson and Mormon Political Conflicts
Faithful History
Fascinating Womanhood : Helen Andelin and the Politics of Religion in the "Other" Women's Movement, 1963-2006
Fawn McKay Brodie : A Biographer's Life
Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygamy
Frederick Vining Fisher : Methodist Apologist for Mormonism
Friendly Fire : The ACLU in Utah
From Housewife to Heretic
From Satyr to Saint : American Attitudes Toward the Mormons, 1860-1960
From the East : The History of the Latter-day Saints in Asia, 1851-1996
George Romney : Mormon in Politics
George Romney in 1968 : From Front-Runner to Drop-Out, an Analysis of Cause
God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
Helen Andelin and the Fascinating Womanhood Movement
Homosexuality : An LDS Perspective
Hubert Howe Bancroft and the History of Utah
I Don't Have a Testimony of the History of the Church
Imaging a Global Religion, American Style : Mormon Pageantry as a Ritual of Community Formation
Imagining Lamanites : Native Americans and the Book of Mormon
Inventing Mormon Identity in Tonga
Issues in Writing European History and in Building the Church in Europe
Joseph Fielding Smith : Faithful Historian
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith as Scientist : A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy
Juanita Brooks : Mormon Woman Historian
Latter-day Saint Social Life : Social Research on the LDS Church and its Members
Latter-day Saints under Siege : The Unique Experience of Nicaraguan Mormons
Lengthen Your Stride : The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball
Letting Go : Understanding Mormon Growth in Africa
Light on the 'Mission to the Lamanites'
Like Father, Unlike Son : The Governors Romney, the Kennedy Paradigm, and the Mormon Question
Lords of Creation : Polygamy, the Abrahamic Household, and Mormon Patriarchy
Losing a Lost Tribe : Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church
Maori Traditions and the Mormon Church
Mapping Mormonism : An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History
Matters of Conscience : Conversations with Sterling M. McMurrin on Philosophy, Education, and Religion
Missionaries and Terror : The Assassination of Two Elders in Bolivia
Moramona : The Mormons in Hawaii
Mormon Doctrine
Mormon History
Mormon Masculinity : Changing Gender Expectations in the Era of Transition from Polygamy to Monogamy, 1890-1920
Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy : A Crisis Theology
Mormon Sisters : Women in Early Utah
Mormon Studies : A Bibliographic Essay
Mormon and Maori
Mormonism and Guerrillas in Bolivia
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism and the Moral Majority Make Strange Bedfellows? An Exploratory Critique
Mormonism and the Negro : Faith, Folklore, and Civil Rights
Mormonism and the New Christian Right : An Emerging Coalition?
Mormonism as a World Religion
Mormonism in Latin America : Towards the Twenty-first Century
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Mormonism, the Maori and Cultural Authenticity
Mormons and Mormonism : An Introduction to an American World Religion
Mormons as Citizens of a Communist State : A Documentary History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Germany, 1945-1990
Mormons in America : Certain in Their Beliefs, Uncertain of Their Place in Society
Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
Mystics and Messiahs : Cults and New Religions in American History
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
On Being a Mormon Historian (and its Aftermath)
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
On the Trail of the Twentieth-Century Mormon Outmigration
Once a Peculiar People : Cognitive Dissonance and the Suppression of Mormon Polygamy as a Case Study Negating the Belief-Action Distinction
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Out of Obscurity : The Emergence of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 'That Vast Empire' of Russia
Out of Obscurity : The LDS Church in the Twentieth Century
Pedestals and Podiums : Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Pioneers in Twentieth Century Mormon Media : Oral Histories of Latter-day Saint Electronic and Public Relations Professionals
Plural Marriage
Preaching to the Court House and Judging in the Temple
Presidents and Prophets : The Story of America's President and the LDS church
Reaching the Nations : International church growth almanac
Refuge and Retrenchment : The Mormon Quest for Identity
Religion in the Modern American West
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Religious Influences on Mormon Fertility : Cross-national Comparisons
Remembering Iosepa : History, Place, and Religion in the American West
Reproducing Patriarchy and Erasing Feminism : the Selective Construction of History within the Mormon Community
Rethinking Retrenchment : Course Corrections in the Ongoing Campaign for Respectability
Rethinking the International Expansion of Mormonism
Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History
Romney : A Political Biography
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans : A Mormon Example
Secularization, Higher Education, and Religiosity
Seeking the 'Remnant' : The Native American during the Joseph Smith Period
Seeking the Promised Land : Mormons and American Politics
Selves and Others : A Study of Reflexivity and the Representation of Culture in Touristic Display at the Polynesian Cultural Center, Laie, Hawaii
Service through Industry . . . George Albert Smith as a Businessman
Shifting Focus to Global Mormonism : The LDS Church in India
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood
The 1968 Presidential Decline of George Romney : Mormonism or Politics?
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Book of Mormon : A Biography
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Changing Image of Mormonism
The Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon in the Twentieth Century
The Development of Structured Situations for Role-Playing in the LDS Department of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion
The Evolution of Treatment of the Latter-day Saint Past
The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt : The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 1: July 1828-June 1831
The LDS Church's Campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment
The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership : A Contemporary Chronology
The Lamanite Mission
The Lanai Colony : A Hawaiian Extension of the Mormon Colonial Idea
The Latter-day Saint Century
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Corporate Empire
The Mormon Culture Region : Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847-1964
The Mormon Culture of Salvation : Force, Grace, and Glory
The Mormon Espionage Scare and Its Coverage in Finland, 1982-84
The Mormon Establishment
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Message in the Context of Maori Culture
The Mormon People :
The Making of an American Faith
The Mormons
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The New Mormon History
The New Mormon History : Revisionist Essays on the Past
The Pioneer Sesquicentennial Celebration
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Prohibition of Interracial Marriage in Utah, 1888-1963
The Red Peril, the Candy Maker, and the Apostle : David O. McKay's Confrontation with Communism
The Redemption of Eve
The Restoration of All Things
The Rise of Mormonism
The Rise of a New World Faith
The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History
The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista : Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball
The Translator and the Ghostwriter : Joseph Smith and W. W. Phelps
Those Amazing Mormons' : The Media's Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority
Tiki and Temple : The Mormon Mission in New Zealand 1854-1958
To Fill up the World : Joseph Smith as Urban Planner
Toward a Post-Heterosexual Mormon Theology
Two Integrities : An Address to the Crisis in Mormon Historiography
Under the Banner of Heaven : A Story of Violent Faith
Undie Running on the Line between Church and State
Unique Gospel in Utah
Utah : A People's History
Victims : The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case
Walking in the Sand : A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana
We Gather Together
Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Women at church : Magnifying LDS women's local impact

Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Would-Be Saints : West Africa before the 1978 Priesthood Revelation