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

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"Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, W...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Walker, David, 1975- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Tourism.
Railroads.
Mormon Church > Public opinion.
Mormon Church.
RELIGION > History.
Église mormone > Opinion publique > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Tourism > United States > History > 19th century.
Railroads > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Mormon Church > Public opinion > History > 19th century.
Mormon Church > History > 19th century.
Utah > Corinne.
West United States.
United States.
Corinne (Utah) > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, Walker argues, accomplished nothing less than the rise of religion as a category of both the popular and scholarly imagination. As it happened, the burgeoning of railroad-related alliances and businesses stimulated LDS Church officials to mobilize in ways that ironically yielded increasingly dynamic and expansive religious institutions. Rather than eradicating or diminishing Mormonism western railroads and their boosters helped to establish it as a normative American religion"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781469653228

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