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English
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Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
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Chicago, Illinois
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University Of Chicago Press
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"Make Yourselves Gods tells the story of the Mormon nineteenth century. More precisely, it tells a story of the Mormons, stretching from their emer-gence as a dissident sect, notable as much for their post- Protestant het-erodoxy as for a dramatically nonnormative sexual imagination, through to their renunciation of polygamy at century’s end, in 1890.......Finally, and most largely, Make Yourselves Gods is a book about the accu-mulating force— the origins and history and ongoingness— of a centuries- long globe- enveloping project whose most familiar name is “secularism." [Author]