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Eugene England : a Mormon liberal
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ISBN: 0252052862 Year: 2021 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Eugene England championed an optimistic Mormon faith open to liberalizing ideas from American culture. At the same time, he remained devoted to a conservative Mormonism that he saw as a vehicle for progress even as it narrowed the range of acceptable belief. Kristine L. Haglund views England's writing through the tensions produced by his often-opposed intellectual and spiritual commitments.


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Contemporary Mormon pageantry : seeking after the dead
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ISBN: 0472124234 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press,

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In Contemporary Mormon Pageantry, theater scholar Megan Sanborn Jones looks at Mormon pageants, outdoor theatrical productions that celebrate church theology, reenact church history, and bring to life stories from the Book of Mormon. She examines four annual pageants in the United States-the Hill Cumorah Pageant in upstate New York, the Manti Pageant in Utah, the Nauvoo Pageant in Illinois, and the Mesa Easter Pageant in Arizona. The nature and extravagance of the pageants vary by location, with some live orchestras, dancing, and hundreds of costumed performers, mostly local church members. Based on deep historical research and enhanced by the author's interviews with pageant producers and cast members as well as the author's own experiences as a participant-observer, the book reveals the strategies by which these pageants resurrect the Mormon past on stage. Jones analyzes the place of the productions within the American theatrical landscape and draws connections between the Latter-day Saints theology of the redemption of the dead and Mormon pageantry in the three related sites of sacred space, participation, and spectatorship. Using a combination of religious and performance theory, Jones demonstrates that Mormon pageantry is a rich and complex site of engagement between theater, theology, and praxis that explores the saving power of performance.


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Vardis Fisher : a Mormon novelist
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ISBN: 0252053036 Year: 2021 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Raised by devout Mormon parents, Vardis Fisher drifted from the faith after college. Yet throughout his long career, his writing consistently reflected Mormon thought. Beginning in the early 1930s, the public turned to Fisher's novels like 'Children of God' to understand the increasingly visible Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His striking works vaulted him into the same literary tier as William Faulkner while his commercial success opened the New York publishing world to many of the founding figures in the Mormon literary canon. Michael Austin looks at Fisher as the first prominent American author to write sympathetically about the Church and examines his work against the backdrop of Mormon intellectual history.


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I spoke to you with silence
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ISBN: 1647690803 9781647690809 9781647690793 Year: 2022 Publisher: Salt Lake City

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"I Spoke to You with Silence" is a collection of original essays and previously published writing that first appeared on blogs and social media outlets where self-identifying Mormons of marginalized genders share their thoughts anonymously without risking friendships, their marriages, their standing in the church, or their lives"--

Faithful transgressions in the American West
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ISBN: 1283267179 9786613267177 0874214955 087421551X 9780874214956 9780874215519 9781283267175 6613267171 Year: 2004 Publisher: Logan Utah State University Press

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The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, ""I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits herself in writing to trust her own ideas and authority over official religious authority while also conceiving of and depicting herself to be a 'faithful' member of the Church."" Bush recognizes her book as her own act of faithful transgression. Writing it involved wrestling, she states, ""with my own deeply

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The Columbia sourcebook of Mormons in the United States
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ISBN: 9780231149426 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York Columbia University Press

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints --- History --- Sources --- Mormon Church --- Mormons --- Correspondence --- American prose literature --- Mormon authors --- theology and doctrine --- Joseph Smith --- Latter Day Saints --- religious denominations --- the United States --- The Book of Mormon --- Oliver Cowdery --- W.W. Phelps --- the Prophecy of Enoch --- Kirtland Temple --- Heber J. Grant --- Anthony W. Ivins --- Charles W. Nibley --- Quorum of the Twelve Apostles --- Isaac Russell --- Brigham Young --- Lyman Wight --- George Miller --- James J. Strang --- Christ --- priesthood --- Community of Christ Herald --- the city of Zion --- Haun's Mill Massacre --- Heber C. Kimball --- Sidney Rigdon --- Hyrum Smith --- the Female Relief Society --- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- Israel --- conversion --- Mormonism --- Valborg Rasmussen Wheelwright --- John R. Winder --- Anthon H. Lund --- the Netherlands --- government and politics --- Margaret L. Scott --- J. Allen Scott --- Martha Hughes Cannon --- Angus M. Cannon --- Reed Smoot --- the United States Senate --- woman suffrage in Utah --- J. Reuben Clark --- Sonia Johnson --- Mormon thought --- public service --- faith in America --- Thomas S. Monson --- Henry B. Eyring --- Dieter F. Uchtdorf --- race and ethnicity --- the Lamanites --- spiritual gifts --- Hell --- the spirit world --- the Elders and the nations --- the Temple --- Helen Sekaquaptewa --- Native Americans --- Spencer W. Kimball --- N. Eldon Tanner --- Marion G. Romney --- Gospel --- sexuality and gender --- marriage in polygamy --- Annie Clark Tanner --- sex teaching --- sexual intimacy in marriage --- gay Mormons --- same-gender attraction --- LDS newsroom --- Mormon feminism --- Latter-day Saint women --- education and intellectualism --- vocational education --- science and religion --- Latter-day Saint scholars --- American history --- contemporary religious life --- Baptism --- Mabel Jones Gabbott --- Rowland H. Prichard --- Karen Lynn Davidson --- Hans Leo Hassler --- Truman G. Madsen

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