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Mormon Identities in Transition.
"This collection of interdisciplinary essays explores the prime concern of Mormon Studies - the relationship between knowledge and spirituality - and how that relationship has been defined and reinterpreted over time. Beginning with an examination of the international prospects for Mormonism at...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Bloomsbury UK : Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Scholars, Saints and Mormonism; Scholars, Saints and knowledge; Part I Dimensions of Identity; 1 Identity and boundary maintenance: International prospects for Mormonism at the dawn of the twenty-first century; Boundaries and identity; Religious identities as exports; Mormonism as a new world religion?; Future prospects for international Mormon identities: some illustrations; Mormon institutions in identity-building; 2 Modernity, history and Latter-day Saint faith
- 3 The Book of Mormon wars: A non-Mormon perspectiveA non-Mormon perspective; 4 Coffee, tea and the ultra-Protestant and Jewish nature of the boundaries of Mormonism; Origins and development of the ban; Coffee, tea and health; Coffee, tea and the collective identity and boundaries of Mormons, Jews and Seventh-day Adventists; Mormons, Jews and ultra-Protestants; Concluding thoughts on coffee, tea, Protestants, Jews, and Mormons; Notes; 5 Latter-day Saint exceptionalism and membership growth; Methodology; Findings; Discussion and conclusion
- 6 Neither Mormon nor Protestant? The Reorganized Church and the challenge of identityNotes; Part II The Expansion of Mormonism; 7 Ethnic American Mormons: The development of a community; Notes; 8 Mormonism in Chile; Mormonism in Latin America; Mormonism in Chile; Distribution of members; Pentecostalism; Urban Santiago and social process; Conclusion; Notes; 9 Mormonism in black Africa; 10 India: A synopsis of cultural challenges; Part III Emotional and Social Life; 11 Childhood in early nineteenth-century Britain reflected in some Latter-day Saint sources; Notes
- 12 Guilt, fear, anxiety and love: Disciplinary councils among Latter-day Saints todayChurch disciplinary councils; Obedience to righteous authority versus free agency; Violations of Church sexual standards and the ideal of unconditional love; Conclusion; Notes; 13 An overview of Mormonism and mental health; Previous reviews of religiosity and mental health; A decade review (1985-95); Positive trend; Specific outcomes (1985-95); The mental health of the Mormons; Mormonism and depression; Mormonism and family life; Premarital sex; Delinquency; Mormonism and substance abuse
- Mormonism and well-beingConclusions; 14 Commitment making: Mate selection processes among active Mormon American couples; The Mormon context for mate selection; The mate selection process in American culture; Method; Results; Desired traits and initial attraction; Rapidity of movement; Spiritual confirmation; The importance of commitment making; Discussion; Note; Part IV Early Mormonism; 15 Mormons and the millennial world-view; Notes; 16 Magic and Mormon religion; Magic as a distancing category; Commitment to the founding era