Item Detail
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30444
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3
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15
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English
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Geography and Mormon Identity
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The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
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Cambridge, England
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Oxford University Press
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406-438
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The Latter-day Saints have developed a remarkable sense of place and an uncanny sense of direction. Their appreciation of place and their spatial cognition is closely linked to Mormon history, which is often depicted in terms of evocative locales and far-flung migrations. These not only position the Americas as central to theology, but also link the New World to the Old World through scripture. Moreover, the Mormon missionary program ensures that Latter-day Saints think spatially as they spread the faith. Mormonism, in fact, proves the axiom that time and space—history and geography—are inseparable. From its inception, both centrifugal and centripetal forces have characterized the geography of the Mormon experience.
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Believing History : Latter-day Saints Essays
Believing in Place : A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin
"Like the Hajis of Meccah and Jerusalem" : Orientalism and the Mormon Experience
Making Space for the Mormons : Ideas of Sacred Geography in Joseph Smith's America
Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin : A Cartographic History
Mormon Perception and Settlement
On Zion's Mount : Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
Running the Line : James Henry Martineau's Surveys in Northern Utah, 1860-1882
Space Matters : A Geographical Context for the Reorganization's Great Transformation
The Book and the Map : New Insights into Book of Mormon Geography
The Mapmakers of New Zion : A Cartographic History of Mormonism
The Mormon Culture Region : Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847-1964
The Mormon Experience : The Plains as Sinai, the Great Salt Lake as the Dead Sea, and the Great Basin as Desert-cum-Promised Land
The Mormon Landscape : Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region