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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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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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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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Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
In this never-before-told history of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons,
Brent M. Rogers presents the intersections in the epic histories of
William F. \"Buffalo Bill\" Cody and the Latter-day Saints from 1846
through 1917. In Cody's autobiography he claimed to have been a
member of the U.S. Army wagon train that was burned by the Saints
during the Utah War of 1857-58. Less than twenty years later he
began his stage career and gained notoriety by performing
anti-Mormon dramas. By early 1900 he actively recruited Latter-day
Saints to help build infrastructure and encourage growth in the
region surrounding his town of Cody, Wyoming. In Buffalo Bill
and the Mormons Rogers unravels this history and the
fascinating trajectory that took America's most famous celebrity
from foe to friend of the Latter-day Saints. In doing so, the book
demonstrates how the evolving relationship between Cody and the
Latter-day Saints can help readers better understand the political
and cultural perceptions of Mormons and the American West.
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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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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 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 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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