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The Landscape of Modern Mormonism: Understanding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through Its Twentieth-Century Architecture
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Boston
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Boston University
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PhD
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"During the twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints altered its policy of gathering converts to 'Zion,' a centralized location in the western United States, instead encouraging permanent Mormon settlement throughout the world. In order to achieve a dispersed global membership, the Church constructed regional buildings necessary to facilitate the fundamental socioreligious aspects of the faith. Temples provided exclusive ritual space, helping preserve a distinctive form of worship among diverse religious populations. Meetinghouses furnished community space for weekly spiritual worship, religious instruction, ecclesiastical administration, and social activities, enabling connection among other believers as well as non-Mormon visitors.
"Chapter 1 focuses on the central role of temple-building in Mormon Zion-building; without a regional temple, a Mormon landscape was incomplete and therefore perpetually transient. The second and third chapters explore the under-scrutinized role of meetinghouses in Mormon Zion-building. Chapter 2 examines the form and function of meetinghouses, giving attention to stylistic modernization and the evolving multiuse social hall turned basketball gymnasium. Chapter 3 chronicles the evolution of the Church architecture program, which relied heavily upon standardization and branding during the final half of the twentieth century. Chapter 4 observes the construction of the Mormon cultural landscape in Washington D. C. that helped mend the contentious past between the Church and the federal government. Chapter 5 studies the construction of meetinghouses and a temple in Greater Boston, which afforded access to the intellectual and economic opportunities of the Eastern Establishment. Chapter 6 serves as a concentrated lens in Mormon landscapes of training and education in Provo, Utah.
"Together, these six chapters reveal the modern Mormon landscape as one that achieves relative uniformity across a worldwide Church membership and hard-won acceptance within the American religious landscape. The basic programs for modern temples and meetinghouses demonstrate their unique roles in the balancing act of belonging to larger communities as a religious minority while retaining a discernible identity. This dissertation argues that the Church adopted a corporate strategy to efficiently expend into non-Mormon landscapes, maintain control over religious programming, and preserve a resilient yet adaptable socioreligious identity among its membership."
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A House for the Most High : The Story of the Original Nauvoo Temple
American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
Artists of Utah
A Style of Their Own : Transforming Mormon Architecture for California
Brigham Young University : The First One Hundred Years
Building the One Hundredth Temple : A Test Case of Religious Freedom in New England
Building Zion : The Material World of Mormon Settlement
'Called to Serve' : A History of Missionary Training
Correlation of the Church, Administration
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
Discourses of Brigham Young : Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Every Man Shall Hear the Gospel in His Own Language : A History of the Missionary Training Center and its Predecessors
For All the Saints
Gathering as One : The History of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City
Gordon B. Hinckley of the Quorum of the Twelve
Go Ye into all the World : The Growth and Development of Mormon Missionary Work
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of the Mormons in the Greater Washington Area
History of the Washington, D.C. LDS Ward
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Kirtland Temple : The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
Lengthen Your Stride : The Presidency of Spencer W. Kimball
Mapping Mormonism : An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History
Meetinghouses in the Mormon Mind : Ideology, Architecture, and Turbulent Streams of an Expanding Church
Mormon Architecture and Visual Arts
Mormon Garments : Sacred Clothing and the Body
Mormonism and Education
Mormonism and Music : A History
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormon Moderne : Latter-day Saint Architecture, 1925-1945
Nineteenth-Century Mormon Architecture and City Planning
On Being Human : The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Out of Obscurity : The LDS Church in the Twentieth Century
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Places of Worship : 150 Years of Latter-day Saint Architecture
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Reexamining Lorenzo Snow's 1899 Tithing Revelation
Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History : The New England States
Religious Architecture of the LDS Church : Influences and Changes since 1847
Roots of Modern Mormonism
"Spiritualized Recreation" : LDS All-Church Athletic Tournaments, 1950-1971
Sports in Zion : Mormon Recreation, 1890-1940
Temples of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Temples of the Most High
Temples to Dot the Earth
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The 'Americanization' of Utah for Statehood
The Development of Latter-day Saint Temple Worship, 1846-2000 : A Documentary History
The Early Life and Career of Joseph Don Carlos Young (1855-1938) : A Study of Utah's First Institutionally Trained Architect to 1884
The Early Temples of the Mormons : The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West
The Early Twentieth Century Temples
'The ERA is a Moral Issue' : The Mormon Church, LDS Women, and the Defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment
The Fading Curse of Cain : Mormonism in South Africa
The Fading of the Pharaoh's Curse : The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban against Blacks in the Mormon Church
The First Mormon Temple : Design, Construction, and Historic Context of the Kirtland Temple
The Four Mormon Temples in Utah
The Gathering of Zion : The Story of the Mormon Trail
The Mormon Colonies in Mexico
The Mormon Culture Region : Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847-1964
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Landscape: Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Priesthood Revelation and the Sao Paulo, Brazil Temple
The Mormon Temple Square : The Story behind the Scenery
The New Mormon Temple in Washington, D.C.
The Oakland Temple : Portal to Eternity
The Origin, Growth, and Extension of the Educational Program of the Mormon Church in Utah
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Word of Wisdom : From Principle to Requirement
'To Take the Temples to the People'
Utah Place Names : A Comprehensive Guide to the Origin of Geographic Names
Utah's Historic Architecture, 1847-1940 : A Guide
What the Mormon Cultural Landscape Can Teach Us
What You Leave behind : Six Years at the MTC
Why the Coalville Tabernacle had to be Razed