Item Detail
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29355
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Book
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English
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Stapley, Jonathan A.
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The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
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New York, NY
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Oxford University Press
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2018
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184
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The Power of Godliness is a key work to understand Mormon conceptions of priesthood, authority, and gender. With in-depth research and never previously used documents, Jonathan A. Stapley explores the rituals of ordination, temple "sealings," baby blessings, healing, and cunning-folk traditions. In doing so, he demonstrates that Mormon liturgy includes a much larger and more complex set of ritualized acts of worship than the specific rites of initiation, instruction, and sealing that take place within the temple walls.
By exploring Mormonism's liturgy more broadly, The Power of Godliness shows both the nuances of Mormon belief and practice, and how the Mormon ordering of heaven and earth is not a mere philosophical or theological exercise. Stapley examines Mormonism's liturgical history to reveal a complete religious world, incorporating women, men, and children all participating in the construction of the Mormon universe. This book opens new possibilities for understanding the lived experiences of women and men in the Mormon past and present, and investigates what work these rituals and ritualized acts actually performed in the communities that carried them out. By tracing the development of the rituals and the work they accomplish, The Power of Godliness sheds important new light on the Mormon universe, its complex priesthoods, authorities, and powers. -
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"Except Among that Portion of Mankind" : Early Mormon Conceptions of the Apostasy
"Is There No Blessing for Me?" Jane James's Construction of Space in Latter-day Saint History and Practice
"Our Wise and Prudent Women" : Twentieth-Century Trends in Female Missionary Service
"Pouring in Oil" : The Development of the Modern Mormon Healing Ritual
"Real, Live Mormon Women" : Understanding the Role of Early Twentieth-Century LDS Lady Missionaries
"Rely Upon the Things Which are Written" : Text, Context, and the Creation of Mormon Revelatory Records
"Saviors on Mount Zion" : Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead
"They Shall be Made Whole" : A History of Baptism for Health
"We Latter-day Saints are Methodists" : The Influence of Methodism on Early Mormon Religiosity
"Weak-Kneed Republicans and Socialist Democrats" : Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1953-61, Part 2
'Satan Mourns Naked upon the Earth' : Locating Mormon Possession and Exorcism Rituals in the American Religious Landscape, 1830-1977
A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
A History of Female Missionary Activity in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1898
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
A Ministry of Meetings : The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson
A Mormon Chronicle : The Diaries of John D. Lee, 1848-1876
A Pathway to Prophethood : Joseph Smith Junior as Rodsman, Village Seer, and Judeo-Christian Prophet
A Schoolmarm All My Life : Personal Narratives from Frontier Utah
A Symbol of New Directions : George Franklin Richards and the Mormon Church, 1861-1950
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
An Abundant Life : The Memoirs of Hugh B. Brown
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
An Uncommon Common Pioneer : The Journals of James Henry Martineau 1828-1918
Another Side of Early Mormonism
At the Pulpit : 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women
Bosom Serpentry among the Puritans and Mormons
By Our Rites of Worship : Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
Candid Insights of a Mormon Apostle : The Diaries of Abraham H. Cannon, 1889-1895
Church, State, and Politics : The Diaries of John Henry Smith
Danish Apostle : The Diaries of Anthon H. Lund, 1890-1921
Doctrines of Salvation : Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith
Early Mormon Adoption Theology and the Mechanics of Salvation
Early Mormon Priesthood Revelations : Text, Impact, and Evolution
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Eliza R. Snow : The Complete Poetry
Eternal Progression : Mormonism and American Progressivism
Female Ritual Healing in Mormonism
From Men to Boys : LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829-1996
Heart Throbs of the West
Hearts Turned to the Fathers : A History of the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1894-1994
Heber C. Kimball : Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
History and the Claims of Revelation : Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates
Housework : The Problem that Does Have a Name
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph (Smith) in Egypt : Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden
Last Rites and the Dynamics of Mormon Liturgy
Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle; the Father and Founder of the British Mission
Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept : Reflections on the 1877 Commencement of the Performance of Endowments and Sealings of the Dead
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Mormon Women Have Had the Priesthood since 1843
Mormon Women as 'Natural' Seers : An Enduring Legacy
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism's Last Colonizer : The Life and Times of William H. Smart
Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings : A Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances, 1841-1846
No Toil nor Labor Fear : The Story of William Clayton
On the Potter's Wheel : The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Pedestals and Podiums : Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights
Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from Utah
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Restoration of the Melchisedec [sic] Priesthood
Saying Goodbye to the Final Say : The Softening and Reimagining of Mormon Male Headship Ideologies
Shakers, Mormons, and Religious Worlds : Conflicting Visions, Contested Boundaries
Single Cursedness : An Overview of LDS Authorities' Statements About Unmarried People
Some Botanical Cures in Mormon Folk Medicine : An Analysis
Superstitions, Customs, and Prescriptions of Mormon Midwives
The Acts of the Apostle William E. McLellin
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Church in Britain and the 1851 Religious Census
The Democratization of American Christianity
The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000 : A Documentary History
The Diaries of Charles Ora Card, The Canadian Years, 1886-1903
The Diary of Charles Lowell Walker
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy : Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood
The History of LDS Temple Admission Standards
The Journals of William E. McLellin 1831-1836
The Last Shall Be First and the First Shall Be Last : Discourse and Mormon history
The Medical Practice of Dr. Frederick G. Williams
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion
The Mormon People :
The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Reformation of 1856-1857 : The Rhetoric and the Reality
The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847 : Norton Jacob's Record
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Orson Pratt Journals
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Pioneer Memorial Museum and Saramarie J. Van Dyke Carriage House
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Power and Form of Godliness : Methodist Conversion Narratives and Joseph Smith's First Vision
The Practice of Rebaptism at Nauvoo
The Priesthood Reform Movement, 1908-1922
The Religious Heritage of the British Northwest and the Rise of Mormonism
The Tide of Mormon Migration Flowing Through the Port of Liverpool England
What Has Pentecostalism to do with Mormonism? The Case of John Alexander Dowie
Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Women and the Priesthood : What One Mormon Woman Believes
Women of Principle : Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny
Zion Rising : Joseph Smith's Early Social and Political Thought