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Taylor & Francis Ltd American Babylon
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Taylor & Francis Gender Inequality in the Ordained Ministry of the Church of England
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evangelicals Engaging in Practical Theology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evangelicalism and Dissent in Modern England and Wales
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Research Companion to the History of Evangelicalism
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Taylor & Francis Sport and Spirituality
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Taylor & Francis Singing the Gospel along Scotlands NorthEast Coast 18592009
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Evangelicalism and the Emerging Church A Congregational Study of a Vineyard Church Explorations in Practical Pastoral and Empirical Theology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Meeting Jesus at University Rites of Passage and Student Evangelicals
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Cambridge University Press A Short History of Global Evangelicalism
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Cambridge University Press A Short History of Global Evangelicalism
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Oxford University Press Inc Divided by Faith
Book SynopsisA revealing study of the radical attitudes of white evangelical Americans.Trade Reviewthis is an important text that sheds light on the inner theological and sociological workings of white evangelicals in connection to one of the most pressing issues in the United States ... valuable for its insights into Evangelicalism, religion and race, and religious pluralism. * Anthony B.Pinn, Reviews in Religion and Theology, Vol.8, Issue 3, June 2001 *"This is an important book. With thoughtful conceptual distinctions and careful analysis of data from a variety of empirical sources, Emerson and Smith provide an interesting account of how white evangelicals perpetuate the very racial divisions they publicly oppose. Divided by Faith breaks new ground in the study of religion and American race relations."--William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, Harvard University, and author of The Truly Disadvantaged and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide"Divided by Faith is just that--an account of the deep racial division within American religion. But more than that, it is a penetrating look at the societal and religious-based reasons for this division within the Evangelical Christian sector, and a compassionate plea on the part of the authors for Christians to engage the issue of race and to lead the country in solving this 'American Dilemma.' A thorough and very readable book, to be read by scholars and church members alike."--Wade Clark Roof, J.F. Rowny Professor of Religion and Society, University of California, Santa Barbara"This path-breaking book is the best study in print on the racial attitudes of white evangelical Protestants. The book's unusual strength comes from its ability to combine a reliable summary of historical circumstances with careful attention to what evangelicals actually say and sensitive use of responsible sociological theory. The arguments of the book are made even more forceful by the willingness of Emerson and Smith to take the evangelicals' own theology seriously, especially where that theology calls into question standard patterns of evangelical racial practice."--Mark A. Noll, Professor of History, Wheaton College
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University of Chicago Press The Life of Lady Johanna Eleonora Petersen
Book SynopsisIn a time when the Pauline dictum decreed that women be silent in matters of the Church, Johanna Eleonora Petersen (1644-1724) was a pioneering author of religious books, insisting on her right to speak out as a believer above her male counterparts.
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Zondervan Awakening the Evangelical Mind
Book SynopsisThe first major study to draw upon unknown or neglected sources, as well as original interviews with figures like Billy Graham, Awakening the Evangelical Mind uniquely tells the engaging story of how evangelicalism developed as an intellectual movement in the middle of the 20th century. Beginning with the life of Harold Ockenga, Strachan shows how Ockenga brought together a small community of Christian scholars at Harvard University in the 1940s who agitated for a reloaded Christian intellect.With fresh insights based on original letters and correspondence, Strachan highlights key developments in the movement by examining the early years and humble beginnings of such future evangelical luminaries as George Eldon Ladd, Edward John Carnell, John Gerstner, Gleason Archer, Carl Henry, and Kenneth Kantzer.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Boston Brahmin in Training: The Preparation of Harold Ockenga Chapter 2 “A Mighty Man of God”: The Pastoral Work of Harold Ockenga Chapter 3 Three Mystics, Three Skeptics, and Three Evangelicals: Trial by Fire at Harvard Chapter 4 Notes from the Revolution: Ockenga Cultivates the Cambridge Evangelicals Chapter 5 Evangelical Acts of Intellectual Daring: Ockenga and Henry on the Evangelical Mind Chapter 6 In Search of the Ivory Tower: Carl Henry and Crusade University Conclusion
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Believing in Baptism Understanding and Living
Book SynopsisGordon Kuhrt served in Parish Ministry for over twenty years (1967-1989) and was then Archdeacon of Lewisham (1989-1996) before becoming Director of Ministry for the Church of England (1996-2006).Stephen Kuhrt has been Vicar of Christ Church, New Malden, UK since 2007. Previously, he was curate of Christ Church and before that a school teacher. He is the author of Tom Wright for Everyone: Putting the Theology of N.T. Wright into Practice in the Local Church (2011).Trade ReviewWe have every reason to be grateful to the Kuhrts for this deeply biblical and eminently practical study of baptism. Well-researched, thorough and rich, this is a fine book with wide sympathies and a clear centre of gravity. It could well be a classic. * John Pritchard, former Bishop of Oxford, UK *This is a great book, which any thoughtful Christian would be blessed to read, with any number of valuable insights into Scripture as much as into Baptism, and I thoroughly recommend it. * Baptismal Integrity *Table of ContentsPreface Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction: Baptism in Melton Sudbury 1 Who believes in baptism? 2 The Bible and baptism 3 God’s covenant (part one) 4 God’s covenant (part two) 5 John the Baptist and baptism 6 The baptism of Jesus 7 Baptism in the Early Church 8 Baptism as a sacrament 9 Baptism and the Christian family 10 The ‘Baptist’ view 11 Discrimination in baptism 12 ‘Rebaptism’ – Is it ever justified? 13 Baptism and its completion? 14 Living and preaching baptism Epilogue: Changes to baptism in Melton Sudbury Notes Bibliography Index of biblical references General index
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Shaker Legacies Hancock and Mount Lebanon
Book SynopsisDozens of beautiful photos, both vintage and contemporary, draw us into the fascinating world of Shaker communities' accomplishments, their progressive views, and their still-resonating impact on American life. This book focuses specifically on two Shaker villages, Hancock and Mount Lebanon, which were close neighbors situated on either side of the Taconic Mountain Range bordering New York and Massachusetts. Mount Lebanon was the vibrant voice of Shakerism for over 160 years while Hancock lived in the shadows of its larger sister. Explaining the beliefs that grounded these villages, this book unfolds the Shaker legacies we live with today, involving Shakers' spiritual beliefs, their social welfare structures, their wide-ranging industries from seeds to herbal medicines to furniture to fancy goods, and their building of villages and of lives with a sense of purpose and permanency.
£28.79
Baker Publishing Group Fighting for Your Prophetic Promises
Book SynopsisThe fulfillment of prophetic promises from God is not automatic. Here's how to make sure they're fulfilled--and to rightly understand the amazing prophetic gift.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Spirit Possession and Popular Religion Origins Of
Book SynopsisThe Shakers emerge as the culmination of the century's religious quest, preserving the immediacy of spirit possession while making it the basis for the formation of an ideal Christian community.Originally published as Spirit Possession and Popular Religion: From the Comisards to the ShakersTrade ReviewClearly written and richly detailed, Garrett's work is an excellent study of such dramatic spiritual performances, what he pictures as the sacred theater of popular religion. Journal of American Culture The description is outstanding. Nowhere else can one find such a succinct and eminently readable account that places Shakerism in its broadest context. Garrett makes character and personality come alive throughout the book, from the Prophets' strange gyrations to Mother Ann Lee's drinking problem. Journal of American History [Unravels] the subtle links among such apparently divergent manifestations of popular religion as that of the Camisards and French Prophets of the seventeenth century, German pietism, the early Methodists in England, the revivals of the Great Awakening, the Amana community, and the Shakers... Garrett's study deserves the attention of all who would understand the history and nature of ecstatic experience and its continuing presence in Western religion. Church History Shaker buffs will not find this study very comforting, but serious students of Shakerism and historians interested in other communal societies stand in Garrett's debt for his excellent contribution to the field, for his determination to address a range of important but difficult interpretive issues, and for his willingness to employ a critical approach to texts too long handled uncritically. American Historical Review A carefully researched, methodologically sophisticated, and lucidly written work. Catholic Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Anthropology and HistoryChapter 1. Your Sons and Daughters Shall ProphesyChapter 2. The Prophetic DiasporaChapter 3. The Community of True InspirationChapter 4. The Methodist AwakeningChapter 5. The Transatlantic AwakeningChapter 6. A Prophetess in ManchesterChapter 7. The Woman in the WildernessChapter 8. Into New EnglandChapter 9. Spiritual Wars and Sharp TestimoniesChapter 10. The Gathering Into OrderNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Amish Enterprise From Plows to Profits Center
Book SynopsisIn this new edition, the authors update demographic and technological changes, and describe Amish enterprises outside of Pennsylvania in a new chapter.Trade ReviewUseful in courses in religion and culture; an excellent supplementary text for courses in sociology... Amish and other minority groups... may be inspired and instructed by this heartening document. -- Gene Burd Utopian Studies 2005 Important for anyone interested in the interplay between a small, separate religious group and the dominant culture. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 2005Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: The Cultural ContextChapter 1. The Roots of Amish LifePart II: Cultural Resources for Entrepreneurship Chapter 2. From Plows to ProfitsChapter 3. A Profile of Amish EnterprisesChapter 4. Homespun Entrepreneurs Chapter 5. Labor and Human ResourcesPart III: Cultural Constraints of EntrepreneurshipChapter 6. The Moral Boundaries of BusinessChapter 7. Taming the Power of TechnologyChapter 8. Small-Scale LimitationsPart IV: The Public Face of Amish EnterpriseChapter 9. Promotion and Professional NetworksChapter 10. Coping with Litigation and LiabilityChapter 11. Negotiating with CaesarChapter 12. Failure and SuccessPart V: The Transformation of Amish SocietyChapter 13. The Fate of a Traditional PeopleChapter 14. National Patters of Amish WorkAppendixes: Research Methods and Data SourcesNotesReferencesIndex
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Beacon Press The World in Flames A Black Boyhood in a White
Book SynopsisA lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird. It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions—including a prohibition against doctors and hospitals—the underpinning tenet of Herbert W. Armstrong’s Worldwide Church of God was that its members were divinely chosen and all others would soon perish in rivers of flames. The substantial membership was ruled by fear, intimidation, and threats. Anyone who dared leave the church would endure hardship for the remainder of this life and eternal suffering in the next. The next life, according to Armstrong, would arrive in 1975, three years after the start of the Great Tribulation. Jer
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Rutgers University Press Awesome Families The Promise of Healing
Book SynopsisExplains how and why this religious group, founded on principles of enforced community, explicit authoritative relationships, and therapeutic ideals, attracted so many individuals. Tracing the rise and fall of this fast-growing religious movement, this study offers insight into the difficulties that revivalist movements have in sustaining growth.Trade ReviewA masterful work. This book is a must-read. It artfully weaves engaging ethnography with social theory to take the reader on a learning adventure. Through this study of family life, gender relations, and culture in a fast-rising and then falling 'therapeutic religious movement,' we learn about life in the modern world. Given that the conditions that led to this movement's appeal and growth remain, similar groups will continue to appear. As they do, we will want to turn to Awesome Families to understand their meaning. -- Michael O. Emerson * author of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in Amer *Awesome Families is an excellent study of a Christain based religious movement that offered the promise of healing and family to over one thousand members throughout the world. Jenkins's work is well researched, well written and presents new and exciting insights into religious conversion and disillusionment. Her book is at the cutting edge of the new scholarship on commitment to religious movements, providing a much needed understanding of the complex ways in which alternative religions function in contemporary society. -- Janet Jacobs * author of Hidden Heritage the Legacy of the Crypto-Jews *"This work is a valuable resource for the sociologist of religion as well as a fine exemplar of, and introduction to, the cultural turn in sociology for the scholar of religion in general" -- Brad Nabors * Sociology of Religion *A masterful work. This book is a must-read. It artfully weaves engaging ethnography with social theory to take the reader on a learning adventure. Through this study of family life, gender relations, and culture in a fast-rising and then falling 'therapeutic religious movement,' we learn about life in the modern world. Given that the conditions that led to this movement's appeal and growth remain, similar groups will continue to appear. As they do, we will want to turn to Awesome Families to understand their meaning. -- Michael O. Emerson * author of Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in Amer *Awesome Families is an excellent study of a Christain based religious movement that offered the promise of healing and family to over one thousand members throughout the world. Jenkins's work is well researched, well written and presents new and exciting insights into religious conversion and disillusionment. Her book is at the cutting edge of the new scholarship on commitment to religious movements, providing a much needed understanding of the complex ways in which alternative religions function in contemporary society. -- Janet Jacobs * author of Hidden Heritage the Legacy of the Crypto-Jews *"This work is a valuable resource for the sociologist of religion as well as a fine exemplar of, and introduction to, the cultural turn in sociology for the scholar of religion in general" -- Brad Nabors * Sociology of Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: "It's Like Free Counseling All the Time" 1. Sacred Counsel: "Ambassadors for God" 2. An Unsinkable Raft in a Foreboding Divorce Culture 3. Collective Performances of Healing 4. In with the Old and the New 5. Awesome Kids 6. Brothers and Sisters for the Kingdom of God 7. A Kingdom That Promised Too Much Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Hollywood Faith Holiness Prosperity and Ambition
Book SynopsisIn Christianity, as with most religions, attaining holiness and a higher spirituality while simultaneously pursuing worldly ideals such as fame and fortune is nearly impossible. This book looks at religion among the ""creative class."" It is suitable for those who wants to understand how religion adapts to social change.Trade ReviewDrawing on rich ethnographic data from his study of Oasis Christian Center in Hollywood, Gerardo Marti describes an emergent style of neo-Pentecostal worship and religious community that speaks to members of the 'creative class' of youthful Millennials who are in their 20s and early 30s. This cutting-edge analysis of where religion may be heading is theoretically sophisticated and yet highly readable. -- Donald E. Miller * Executive Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of S *Drawing on rich ethnographic data from his study of Oasis Christian Center in Hollywood, Gerardo Marti describes an emergent style of neo-Pentecostal worship and religious community that speaks to members of the 'creative class' of youthful Millennials who are in their 20s and early 30s. This cutting-edge analysis of where religion may be heading is theoretically sophisticated and yet highly readable. -- Donald E. Miller * Executive Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of S *Addressing the perspectives of students of religion, media and the film industry, and ethnic differences, the book speaks to all three subjects, combining them in a novel, interesting fashion. Highly recommended. * Choice *Hollywood Faith is an engaging ethnography that makes multiple contributions to the sociology of contemporary U.S. religion. Marti's analysis of Oasis, a fast-growing multiracial church in Hollywood, CA, contributes much to our understanding of multiracial churches in a nation whose religious landscape has long been divided by race and ethnicity. The careful attention to congregational dynamics and how they support a multiracial congregation make this a valuable addition to literature on religion, race, and ethnicity. * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Negotiating Holiness and Hollywood 2. The Making of a Star: Hollywood as Destination and Dream 3. Love and Hate between Hollywood and Christianity 4. Save the World, Starting in Hollywood 5. Celebrity, Heartache, and the Pressue to Make It 6. Religion: Playing at a Theater Near You 7. Fade to Black 8. Becoming Champions of Life 9. Conclusion: Religion in the Era of Identity Commodification Appendix: Research Methodology Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Alabama Press Its a New Day Race and Gender in the Modern
Book SynopsisExamines how popular American religious leaders navigate problems of race and gender in society. This title chronicles the rise of women and African American evangelists in the independent charismatic movement in post-World War II America.Trade ReviewScott Billingsley does a good job of explaining who people are and how they relate in the modern charismatic movement. The world he describes is richly textured and enormously influential, and the biographical sketches point readers toward an understanding of the origins and development of the movement. - Edith L. Blumhofer, Professor of History and Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton College, Illinois ""It's A New Day not only fills a gap in the historical literature of postwar American religion, it also ably tracks the growth, success, and surprising social outlook of one of the most significant mass-religious movements to emerge in the late 20th century."" - Randall S. Stephens, History Department, Eastern Nazarene College, Quinoy, Massachusetts
£999.99
Utah State Special Collection Whats True in Mormon Folklore
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Utah State University Press Joseph Morris the Saga of the Morrisites
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John Wiley & Sons The Giant Joshua
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Prometheus Books UK Mormon Polygamy A History
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The Magnificient World of Spirits Eyewitness
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Cfi Visions of Glory
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Cedar Fort Book of Mormon Made Easier Box Set with
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Cfi The Temple Experience
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Herald Press (VA) All about the Amish: Answers to Common Questions
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Herald Press (VA) Amish Voices, Volume 2: In Their Own Words
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Emanuel Swedenborg: Essential Readings
Book SynopsisBest known for his focus on the intuitive force within, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) also anticipated major modern discoveries in mineralogy, psychology, and anatomy. In this succinct and readable collection, Stanley expertly brings the most significant writings from Swedenborg''s oeuvre together, showing readers a man who created a hieroglyphic language, reimagined the Genesis story, influenced Blake, Balzac, Strindberg, and Yeats, and authored a number of anonymous works that put the Swedish clergy of his day on high alert. This is the fourth title in the Western Esoteric Masters Series from North Atlantic Books.
£12.59
Paragon House Publishers The Vision of Mormonism: Pressing the Boundaries
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Signature Books Evolution and Mormonism: A Quest for
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Signature Books American Apocrypha: Essays on the Book of Mormon
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Signature Books Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham
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Signature Books The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon
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Signature Books The Mormon Hierarchy: Wealth and Corporate Power
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YWAM Publishing,U.S. William Booth: Soup, Soap and Salvation
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WW Norton & Co The Story of the Shakers
Book SynopsisToday, as the number of Shakers has dwindled to only a handful, the story of the Shakers has never been more important to record and understand. In this classic book featuring a brand new introduction, Flo Morse offers a stimulating, graceful summary of Shaker beliefs and the way of life that still endures among a chosen few.
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WW Norton & Co The Shaker's Guide to Good Manners
Book Synopsis"Never make more free with your inferiors than you are willing they should make with you; it learns them to be saucy." Such sage words of advice come from Mother Ann Lee's Society of the Shakers, who in 1844 published A Juvenile Guide, or Manual of Good Manners, Consisting of Counsels, Instructions, & Rules of Deportment for the Young. Known for their piety, their economy, and (perhaps most famously) their celibacy, the Shakers knew a thing or two about etiquette and proper decorum. With this incredible artifact of a bygone era, you can experience what it was like to live in a rural 19th century religious community, where children were taught to "be careful not to talk too loud, nor too much" and to "always have a place for every thing, and keep every thing in its place."
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University of Utah Press,U.S. A Kingdom Transformed: Early Mormonism and the
Book SynopsisTo survive in an often disapproving society, the LDS Church has made adaptive changes in belief, practice, and organization over time. Gordon and Gary Shepherd elucidate these changes through statistical analyses of the rhetoric found in proceedings of the church’s semiannual General Conference. The first edition of A Kingdom Transformed covered the years 1830 to 1979. This new edition revises that work and adds to it by examining the subsequent thirty years of conference talks, revealing what new trends have emerged. Every chapter has been rewritten and updated with theoretical and empirical support from contemporary sources and a new conceptual framework for interpreting findings.Early twentieth-century LDS leaders mainstreamed church doctrines, but by the mid-twentieth century, church authorities began emphasizing a more conservative theology that coincided with an increasingly conservative political orientation. This new edition adds such current issues as the roles of women in the church and of international growth versus member retention.Trade Review“A valuable addition, both substantively and methodologically, to the study of the transformations that have occurred in institutional Mormonism across time… It will be an easy and interesting read.”—Armand L. Mauss, author of Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic “The book is already an essential work on Mormonism in the twentieth century; this new edition, expanding its reach into the twenty-first century, is quite welcome.”—Matthew Bowman, author of The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith “Shepherd and Shepherd have produced a remarkable piece of scholarship in A Kingdom Transformed. By zooming out and examining aggregate trends in emphasis over time, they have provided a real contribution to the study of the development of the church, and one can hope that the authors or others picking up their legacy will continue to update this important study going into the future.” —Mormon Studies Review “This book is surprisingly easy to read, virtually jargon-free, and provides a substantial overview of Mormonism’s core beliefs, practices, and history. For those interested, this book includes three appendices that detail this study’s statistical method and data. And as a theoretical approach to Mormonism, A Kingdom Transformed yields new insights and suggests new directions for those interested in Mormon studies.”—Nova Religio
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University of Utah Press,U.S. Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History
Book SynopsisStories of the ordinary people who helped build Salt Lake City emerge from a study of their often humble adobe houses. Rather than focusing on men and women in positions of power and influence, the emphasis here is on the lives of people who built their sturdy, simple homes from mud.A Modest Homestead provides architectural descriptions of ninety-four extant adobe houses. They are as basic as the people who built them—small tradesmen and farmers, laborers and domestics. Author Laurie Bryant discusses the neighbourhoods in Salt Lake City where adobe houses have survived, often much renovated and disguised, and she showcases the houses not just as they appear today but as they were originally built. Almost all the houses now have additions and improvements, and without some dissection they are not always recognisable, often being both more comfortable and pleasant than might have been the case in the nineteenth century. What emerges through Bryant’s research is an enlarged picture of the roughhewn life of many early Utahns. Includes 120 historic and contemporary photographs.Trade Review“Madsen’s absorbing biography is meticulously researched and elegantly composed. No Mormon studies education is complete without this book.” —Kate Holbrook, specialist in Women’s History, LDS Church History Department, and coeditor of Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives “Carol Madsen, having previously dealt with Emmeline Wells’ public life, now ably explores her interior landscape, tracing the contrast between her public triumph and her private pain, from her ‘wild and fanciful’ youth to her unexpected humiliations. Wells’ excellent record-keeping habit enables the rich detail of her story. This extended and sympathetic inner biography of the best known Mormon woman of her time is told largely in her own words, linked by Madsen’s steady and judicious narrative.” —Claudia L. Bushman, author of Contemporary Mormonism “A significant contribution to women’s history, Utah history, and LDS history that will also appeal to the general reader.” —Kathryn L. McKay, professor of history, Weber State University “Emmeline B. Wells is an admirable and engaging work of historical research and imagination. It offers a compelling portrait of an ambitious, loving, often unhappy but always striving human being, and as it does so it offers readers also a refreshing new perspective on domestic and political possibilities in the nineteenth century.” —Mormon Studies Review "A thorough and engaging biography of Emmeline Wells’s private life. Massive amounts of careful research create a three-dimensional picture of Mormon society from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City as Emmeline moved through it, as well as the late 19th- and early 20th-century American suffrage and national political circles she became part of. The biography is as readable as a good novel and even more engaging because the story it tells is of a real woman whose extraordinary achievements were made despite personal tragedies that would have defeated someone less hopeful and resilient." —Susan Elizabeth Howe, poet and retired professor of English, Brigham Young University “Despite the daunting physical presence of the book, its prose and short chapter structure makes it accessible for a broad audience. . . . The intimate biography is important because it recognizes the multiple ways we can know this woman who is famous for her remarkable public achievements. Readers not only see someone who writes, leads, and organizes. We see someone who feels.” —Juvenile Instructor “Few historians have written as well or as much on Mormon history as author Carol Madsen, and in this work she does not disappoint in the least. Required reading for anyone associated with Mormon studies as well as researchers studying 19th century American religion more generally or women’s history, and certainly recommended for anyone who enjoys a good biography." —Association for Mormon Letters “This attractively designed book is a moving and well-told introduction to an unforgettable woman.” —Western Historical Quarterly “Every chapter, every page invites the reader into the thinking and the social world of Emmeline and her contemporaries. … This era of female writers and defenders of the faith, of innovators and preservers of tradition, and of socially alert women in times of transition will undoubtedly be better understood and valued because of Carol Madsen’s notable achievement.”—BYU Studies Quarterly
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Life Sentence Publishing My People, the Amish: The True Story of an Amish
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. Mormons in Paris: Polygamy on the French Stage,
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Best International Book Award from the Mormon History Association In the late nineteenth century, numerous French plays, novels, cartoons, and works of art focused on Mormons. Unlike American authors who portrayed Mormons as malevolent “others,” however, French dramatists used Mormonism to point out hypocrisy in their own culture. Aren't Mormon women, because of their numbers in a household, more liberated than French women who can't divorce? What is polygamy but another name for multiple mistresses? This new critical edition presents translations of four musical comedies staged or published in France in the late 1800s: Mormons in Paris (1874), Berthelier Meets the Mormons (1875), Japheth’s Twelve Wives (1890), and Stephana’s Jewel (1892). Each is accompanied by a short contextualizing introduction with details about the music, playwrights, and staging. Humorous and largely unknown, these plays use Mormonism to explore and mock changing French mentalities during the Third Republic, lampooning shifting attitudes and evolving laws about marriage, divorce, and gender roles. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Trade Review"Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." -- Susan McCready * author of Staging France between the World Wars *"This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." -- Andrea Goulet * co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics *"Mormons in Paris is as erudite as it is enchanting. In their introduction, Corry Cropper and Christopher Flood show exceptional depth and breadth of knowledge about French theater, opera, and light opera and their place in late nineteenth-century French culture. The language of the translations is natural and readable, and the little songs in verse are especially delightful." -- Susan McCready * author of Staging France between the World Wars *"This well-introduced collection of little-known musical comedies featuring French characterizations of Mormonism is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century French cultural studies. The translations themselves are excellent . . . the authors’ choices of idiomatic expressions capture just the right tone, neither anachronistically modern nor too archaic to retain their impact." -- Andrea Goulet * co-editor of Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: Mormons in Paris Louis Leroy and Alfred Delacour Chapter 2: Berthelier Meets the Mormons Chapter 3: Japheth’s Twelve Wives Antony Mars and Maurice Desvallières Chapter 4: Stephana’s Jewel Arthur Bernède and Albert Dubarry Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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