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Blessed be the wicked
Detective Abish Taylor left Utah for a reason, but with her husband's passing she's come home to reconnect with her family. Now she's serving as the sole police detective in the small town of Pleasant View. When the quiet Mormon suburb in the Wasatch Mountains is shaken by a macabre death-- with the hallmarks of a sacred ritual dating back to the days of Brigham Young-- Abbie uncovers the dark side of the picturesque neighborhood. She'll discover just how far some powerful leaders of the Church will go to bury their secrets.-- Adapted from jacket.
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Marianne Meets the Mormons
In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonism a common trope in French journalism, art, literature, politics, and popular culture. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee bring to light French representations of Mormonism from the 1830s to 1914, arguing that these portrayals often critiqued and parodied French society. Mormonism became a pretext for reconsidering issues such as gender, colonialism, the family, and church-state relations while providing artists and authors with a means for working through the possibilities of their own evolving national identity.
Surprising and innovative, Marianne Meets the Mormons looks at how nineteenth-century French observers engaged with the idea of Mormonism in order to reframe their own cultural preoccupations.
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One step enough
\"Now that she's married, Della believes that she and Owen will live happily ever after, but he can't keep his promise to stop working in the coal mines.\"--Provided by the publisher.
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Still, the Small Voice
Memorates-personal experience narratives of encounters with the supernatural-that recount individuals' personal revelations, primarily through the Holy Ghost, are a pervasive aspect of the communal religious experience of Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In accordance with current emphases in folklore studies on narrative and belief, Tom Mould uses ethnographic research and an emic approach that honors the belief systems under study to analyze how people within Mormon communities frame and interpret their experiences with the divine through the narratives they share. In doing so, he provides a significant new ethnographic interpretation of Mormon culture and belief and also applies his findings directly to broader scholarly folklore discourse on performance, genre, personal experience narrative, belief, and oral versus written traditions.
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Irish Mormons
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the international religions that have arrived from abroad to find adherents in Ireland. Drawing on fieldwork in two LDS communities, Hazel O'Brien explores how these adherents experience the Church in Ireland against the backdrop of the country's increasingly complex religious identity. Irish Latter-day Saints live on the margins of the nation's religious life and the worldwide LDS movement. Nonetheless, they create a sense of belonging for themselves by drawing on collective memories of both their Irishness and their faith. As O'Brien shows, Irish Latter-day Saints work to shift the understanding of Ireland's religious landscape away from a predominant focus on Roman Catholicism. They also challenge Utah-based constructions of Mormonism in order to ensure their place in the Church's powerful religious and cultural lineage.
Examining the Latter-day Saint experience against one nation's rapid social and religious changes, Irish Mormons blends participant observation and interviews with analysis to offer a rare view of the Latter-day Saints in contemporary Ireland.
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The Mormons are coming
Filmmakers are granted exclusive access to the Church of Latter-day Saints' Manchester chapter and its growing congregation of young converts in this eye-opening and thought-provoking documentary. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), or Mormons as they're commonly known, has cracked the formula for attracting young members to its ranks. But what's their secret? In this film, the LDS Manchester chapter opens its doors for the first time. Offering over-stimulated young people a simpler life of inner peace and happiness, the Church also rigorously bans pleasures such as caffeine, booze and sex. But are these sacrifices worth a place in heaven when you're surrounded by the temptations of today's world?
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The whites want every thing : Indian-Mormon relations, 1847-1877
\"Examines the cooperation and conflict, violence and political maneuvering between the Mormons and Native Americans using the journals, letters, reports, and recollections of the people closest to the experience, and provide basic cultural, historical, and environmental perspectives to comprehend the Native world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Columbia sourcebook of Mormons in the United States
This anthology offers rare access to key original documents illuminating Mormon history, theology, and culture in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. Brief introductions describe the theological significance of each text and its reflection of the practices, issues, and challenges that have defined and continue to define the Mormon community. These documents balance mainstream and peripheral thought and religious experience, institutional and personal perspective, and theoretical and practical interpretation, representing pivotal moments in LDS history and correcting decades of misinformation and stereotype. The authors of these documents, male and female, not only celebrate but speak critically and question mainline LDS teachings on sexuality, politics, gender, race, polygamy, and other issues. Selections largely focus on the Salt Lake–based LDS tradition, with a section on the post–Joseph Smith splintering and its creation of a variety of similar yet different Mormon groups. The documents are arranged chronologically within specific categories to capture both the historical and doctrinal development of Mormonism in the United States.
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