Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West, David Walker

Автор: David Walker
Название: Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
ISBN: 1469653192 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469653198
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Описание: Railroads, tourism, and government bureaucracy combined to create modern religion in the American West, argues David Walker in this innovative study of Mormonism's ascendency in the railroad era. The center of his story is Corinne, Utah—an end-of-the-track, hell-on-wheels railroad town founded by anti-Mormon businessmen. In the disputes over this town's frontier survival, Walker discovers intense efforts by a variety of theological, political, and economic interest groups to challenge or secure Mormonism's standing in the West. Though Corinne's founders hoped to leverage industrial capital to overthrow Mormon theocracy, the town became the site of a very different dream.

Economic and political victory in the West required the production of knowledge about different religious groups settling in its lands. As ordinary Americans advanced their own theories about Mormondom, they contributed to the rise of religion itself as a category of popular and scholarly imagination. At the same time, new and advantageous railroad-related alliances catalyzed LDS Church officials to build increasingly dynamic religious institutions. Through scrupulous research and wide-ranging theoretical engagement, Walker shows that western railroads did not eradicate or diminish Mormon power. To the contrary, railroad promoters helped establish Mormonism as a normative American religion.

Автор: Mary Ella Engel
Название: Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
ISBN: 0820355615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820355610
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Описание: Ptrovides a true crime account of religion, mob violence, and vigilante justice in postbellum Georgia.

Автор: Konden Smith Hansen
Название: Frontier Religion: Mormons in America, 1857–1907
ISBN: 1607816881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607816881
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Описание: Endeavouring to understand the sway of the frontier on religion in the US, this book follows Mormon-American conflicts, from the Utah War and the antipolygamy crusades to the Reed Smoot hearings. The story of Mormonism`s move toward American acceptability represents a larger story of the US`s transition toward modernity and religious pluralism.

Автор: Mary Ella Engel
Название: Praying with One Eye Open: Mormons and Murder in Nineteenth-Century Appalachian Georgia
ISBN: 0820355259 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820355252
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Описание: Ptrovides a true crime account of religion, mob violence, and vigilante justice in postbellum Georgia.

Автор: Chamberlin Ann
Название: Clogs and Shawls: Mormons, Moorlands, and the Search for Zion
ISBN: 1607817365 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607817369
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Описание: In this revealing family memoir, best-selling author Ann Chamberlin explores the history of her Mormon grandmother Frances Lyda and her seven sisters who grew up desperately poor in Bradford, Yorkshire, in the early years of the twentieth century.

Автор: Brinton, Daniel G.
Название: Guide-book of florida and the south, for tourists, invalids, and emigrants
ISBN: 1947372521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781947372528
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Описание: The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Автор: Coviello, Peter
Название: Make yourselves gods - mormons and the unfinished business of american secularism
ISBN: 022647416X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226474168
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Описание: Between 270 and 535 AD the city of Rome underwent a dramatic transformation, from an imperial capital into the centre of western Christendom. This volume focuses on the city`s senatorial elite to provide a uniquely comprehensive view of the period, arguing that its transformation was the result of a process of great political and cultural dynamism.

Автор: Coviello Peter
Название: Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
ISBN: 022647433X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226474335
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Описание: From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged--socially, sexually, even racially--by the extravagances of belief they called "religion." Make Yourselves Gods offers a counter-history of early Mormon theology and practice, tracking the Saints from their emergence as a dissident sect to their renunciation of polygamy at century's end.

Over these turbulent decades, Mormons would appear by turns as heretics, sex-radicals, refugees, anti-imperialists, colonizers, and, eventually, reluctant monogamists and enfranchised citizens. Reading Mormonism through a synthesis of religious history, political theology, native studies, and queer theory, Peter Coviello deftly crafts a new framework for imagining orthodoxy, citizenship, and the fate of the flesh in nineteenth-century America. What emerges is a story about the violence, wild beauty, and extravagant imaginative power of this era of Mormonism--an impassioned book with a keen interest in the racial history of sexuality and the unfinished business of American secularism.