In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the rise and development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, through Brigham Young's founding of the Territory of Deseret on the shores of Great Salt Lake, to the spread of the Latter-Day Saints around the globe.
In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the rise and development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, through Brigham Young's founding of the Territory of Deseret on the shores of Great Salt Lake, to the spread of the Latter-Day Saints around the globe.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Terryl L. Givens is Professor of Literature and Religion and James A. Bostwick Chair of English, University of Richmond. His books on Mormonism and American religious culture include The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America, By the Hand of Mormon, and Viper on the Hearth.
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* Introduction * Part I: Foundations and Paradoxes in Mormon Cultural Origins * 1. The Iron Rod and the Liahona: Authority and Radical Freedom * 2. The Endless Quest and Perfect Knowledge: Searching and Certainty * 3. Everlasting Burnings and Cinder Blocks: The Sacred and the Banal * 4. Peculiar People and Loneliness at the Top: Election and Exile * Part II: Varieties of Mormon Cultural Expression * Beginnings (1830-1890): The Dancing Puritans * 5. "The Glory of God is Intelligence": Mormons and the Life of the Mind * 6. "Zion Shall Be Built": Architecture and City Planning * 7. "No Music in Hell": Music and Dance * 8. "On a Cannibal Island": Theater * 9. "Novels Rather than Nothing": Literature * 10. "A Goodly Portion of Painters and Artists": Visual Arts * Part III: The Varieties of Mormon Cultural Expression * A Movable Zion (1890-Present): Pioneed Nostalgia and Beyond the American Religion * 11. "Fomenting the Pot": The Life of the Mind * 12. "A Uniform Look for the Church": Architecture * 13. "No Tabernacle Choir on Broadway": Music and Dance * 14. "Cinema as Sacrement": Theater and Film * 15. "To the Fringes of Faith": Literature * 16. "Painting the Mormon Story": Visual Arts * Conclusion: "Through the Particular to the Universal" * Notes * Index
* Introduction * Part I: Foundations and Paradoxes in Mormon Cultural Origins * 1. The Iron Rod and the Liahona: Authority and Radical Freedom * 2. The Endless Quest and Perfect Knowledge: Searching and Certainty * 3. Everlasting Burnings and Cinder Blocks: The Sacred and the Banal * 4. Peculiar People and Loneliness at the Top: Election and Exile * Part II: Varieties of Mormon Cultural Expression * Beginnings (1830-1890): The Dancing Puritans * 5. "The Glory of God is Intelligence": Mormons and the Life of the Mind * 6. "Zion Shall Be Built": Architecture and City Planning * 7. "No Music in Hell": Music and Dance * 8. "On a Cannibal Island": Theater * 9. "Novels Rather than Nothing": Literature * 10. "A Goodly Portion of Painters and Artists": Visual Arts * Part III: The Varieties of Mormon Cultural Expression * A Movable Zion (1890-Present): Pioneed Nostalgia and Beyond the American Religion * 11. "Fomenting the Pot": The Life of the Mind * 12. "A Uniform Look for the Church": Architecture * 13. "No Tabernacle Choir on Broadway": Music and Dance * 14. "Cinema as Sacrement": Theater and Film * 15. "To the Fringes of Faith": Literature * 16. "Painting the Mormon Story": Visual Arts * Conclusion: "Through the Particular to the Universal" * Notes * Index
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