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Material Type: | Audio book, etc. |
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Document Type: | Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Terryl Givens |
OCLC Number: | 213496478 |
Notes: | Originally published: Oxford, [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2007. |
Awards: | Winner of Mormon History Association Best Book Award, 2007. |
Description: | 1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Foundations and paradoxes in Mormon cultural origins: Iron rod and the Liahona, authority and radical freedom; Endless quest and perfect knowledge, searching and certainty; Everlasting burnings and cinder blocks, the sacred and the banal; Peculiar people and loneliness at the top, election and exile -- Varieties of Mormon cultural expression, beginnings (1830-1890), the dancing puritans: "Glory of God is intelligence", Mormons and the life of the mind; "Zion shall be built", architecture and city planning; "No music in Hell", music and dance; "On a cannibal island", theater; "Novels rather than nothing", literature; "Goodly portion of painters and artists", visual arts -- Varieties of Mormon cultural expression, a movable Zion (1890-Present), pioneer nostalgia and beyond the American religion: "Fomenting the pot", the life of the mind; "Uniform look for the church", architecture; "No Tabernacle Choir on Broadway", music and dance; "Cinema as sacrament", theater and film; "Fringes of faith", literature; "Painting the Mormon story", visual arts -- Conclusion: "Through the particular to the universal." |
Responsibility: | Terryl L. Givens. |
Abstract:
In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, to the global spread of the Latter-Day Saints. Here is a religion shaped by an authoritarian hierarchy and individualism, intellectual investigation, existence in exile and a yearning for acceptance by the larger world.
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In People of Paradox, Givens has accomplished a great deal in the analysis of Mormon culture * Quincy D. Newell, Politics and Religion *
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