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From the outside looking in : essays on Mormon history, theology, and culture /

This book contains fifteen essays, each first presented as the annual Tanner Lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association by a leading scholar. Renowned in their own specialties but relatively new to the study of Mormon history at the time of their lectures, these scholars approach Mo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Neilson, Reid L., 1972- (Editor ), Grow, Matthew J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The free seekers : religious culture in upstate New York, 1790-1835 / Alan Taylor
  • Prophets in America ca. 1830 : Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith / Richard H. Brodhead
  • Historical reflections on Mormon futures / Stephen J. Stein
  • Catherine A. Brekus, Mormon women and the problem of historical agency
  • Mormons, freethinkers, and the limits of toleration / Leigh Schmidt
  • The construction of the Mormon people / Charles L. Cohen
  • Becoming Mormon / Elliott West
  • "Faith in the religion of their fathers" : passing Mormonism from one generation to the next / Randall Balmer
  • What the Mormon cultural landscape can teach us / Dell Upton
  • Thoughts from the farther West : Mormons, California, and the Civil War / William Deverell
  • The Mormons and America's empires / Walter Nugent
  • Mormon stories : a librarian's perspective / George A. Miles
  • The Latter-day Saints, the doughnut, and post-Christian Canada / David B. Marshall
  • Letting go : understanding Mormon growth in Africa / Philip Jenkins
  • "Would that all God's people were prophets" : Mormonism and the new shape of global Christianity / Jehu J. Hanciles.