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Contemporary Mormon Pageantry: Seeking After the Dead
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
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University of Michigan Press
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"In Contemporary Mormon Pageantry, theater scholar Megan Sanborn Jones looks at Mormon pageants, outdoor theatrical productions that celebrate church theology, reenact church history, and bring to life stories from the Book of Mormon. She examines four annual pageants in the United States-- the Hill Cumorah Pageant in upstate New York, the Manti Pageant in Utah, the Nauvoo Pageant in Illinois, and the Mesa Easter Pageant in Arizona. The nature and extravagance of the pageants vary by location, with some live orchestras, dancing, and hundreds of costumed performers, mostly local church members. Based on deep historical research and enhanced by the author's interviews with pageant producers and cast members as well as the author's own experiences as a participant-observer, the book reveals the strategies by which these pageants resurrect the Mormon past on stage. Jones analyzes the place of the productions within the American theatrical landscape and draws connections between the Latter-day Saints theology of the redemption of the dead and Mormon pageantry in the three related sites of sacred space, participation, and spectatorship. Using a combination of religious and performance theory, Jones demonstrates that Mormon pageantry is a rich and complex site of engagement between theater, theology, and praxis that explores the saving power of performance." [Abstract from back of book]
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Autobiography of Willard Washington Bean : Exploits of the Fighting Parson
Basic Methodological Problems with the Anti-Mormon Approach to the Geography and Archaeology of the Book of Mormon
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Excavating Nauvoo : The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America
Experiencing Zion: Contemporary Pilgrimage in the Latter-day Saint Tradition
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Four C's of the Mormon Family : Chastity, Conjugality, Children and Chauvinism
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God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
Go Forward with Faith : The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley
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Inventing Mormonism : Tradition and the Historical Record
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Joseph Smith's First Vision : A Guide to the Historical Accounts
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Latter-day Political Views
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Lucy's Book : A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir
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Mormon Doctrine
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The Early Mormon Chain of Belonging
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The Mormon Culture of Salvation : Force, Grace, and Glory
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Shaping Public Perception of Latter-day Saints, 1968-2008
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
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The Mormon Succession Crisis of 1844
The Rest of the Story : Latter-day Saint Relations with Utah's Native Americans
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The Road to Hill Cumorah
The Sanctification of Mormonism's Historical Geography
The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
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