Item Detail
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30841
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4
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15
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English
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Context and the New-New Mormon History
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Journal of Mormon History
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2009
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35
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3
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Layton, Utah
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Mormon History Association
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208-213
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"ACCORDING TO THE PEW FORUM on Religion and Public Life, we Mormons are very satisfied with ourselves, with what we believe to be our uniqueness, our
singular significance, our blazingly new ideas and practices. These attitudes are, of course, rooted in the soil of the Mormon theology of restoration, and have flowered into a broader cultural marker, but the idea also turns up in a great deal of the best of our academic work. The notion of uniqueness is popular, in part, because it leads to an argument that frequently teaches us something useful. For example, applying it to Mormon intellectual history helps to emphasize the naive radicalism of a homespun faith. Religious thinkers like Joseph Smith and Brigham Young broke laws of Christian thought they were likely not even aware existed. Or sociologists might note that Mormonism is the most successful of America’s homegrown faiths and locate reasons why this is so: its flexible but sturdy priesthood hierarchy (odd for a fiercely democratic antebellum America), its lay ministry, and the religious legitimacy gained of its extensive new scripture." [Author] -
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