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9780195167115

People of Paradox A History of Mormon Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195167115

  • ISBN10:

    0195167112

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-08-29
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography


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.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. xi
Foundations and Paradoxes in Mormon Cultural Origins
The Iron Rod and the Liahona: Authority and Radical Freedomp. 3
The Endless Quest and Perfect Knowledge: Searching and Certaintyp. 21
Everlasting Burnings and Cinder Blocks: The Sacred and the Banalp. 37
Peculiar People and Loneliness at the Top: Election and Exilep. 53
The Varieties of Mormon Cultural Expression: Beginnings (1830-1890): The Dancing Puritans
"The Glory of God Is Intelligence": Mormons and the Life of the Mindp. 65
"Zion Shall Be Built": Architecture and City Planningp. 101
"No Music in Hell": Music and Dancep. 117
"On a Cannibal Island": Theaterp. 143
"Novels Rather than Nothing": Literaturep. 157
"A Goodly Portion of Painters and Artists": Visual Artsp. 179
The Varieties of Mormon Cultural Expression: A Movable Zion (1890-Present): Pioneer Nostalgia and Beyond the American Religion
"Fomenting the Pot": The Life of the Mindp. 195
"A Uniform Look for the Church": Architecturep. 241
"No Tabernacle Choir on Broadway": Music and Dancep. 253
"Cinema as Sacrament": Theater and Filmp. 265
"To the Fringes of Faith": Literaturep. 285
"Painting the Mormon Story": Visual Artsp. 325
Conclusion: "Through the Particular to the Universal"p. 339
Notesp. 345
Indexp. 397
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