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Informationen zum Autor Douglas J. Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion and Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Natural Burial (2012), The Theology of Death (2008) and A Brief History of Death (2004). He is also the editor, along with Lewis Mates, of The Encyclopedia of Cremation (2005). Professor Davies is a Fellow of the British Academy, as well as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Learned Society of Wales.This Bloomsbury Academic Collection consists of classic titles in religious studies. Zusammenfassung 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 the turn of the century, the volume’s overarching theme, from sociological, anthropological and theological approaches, is the examination of changing Mormon identities.The contributors review the expansion of Mormonism, the emotional and social contexts of its historic and contemporary manifestations, the distinction between ‘Utah’ Mormons and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and issues in Mormon feminism, concluding with a valuable review of the sources and documents available for studying Mormonism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Scholars, Saints and Mormonism Douglas J. Davies Part I – Dimensions of Identity 1. Identity and Boundary Maintenance: International Prospects for Mormonism at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Armand L. Mauss 2. Modernity, History and Latter-Day Saint Faith L. C. Midgley 3. The Book of Mormon Wars: A Non-Mormon Perspective Massimo Introvigne 4. Coffee, Tea and the Ultra-Protestant and Jewish Nature of the Boundaries of Mormonism Christie Davies 5. Latter-Day Saint Exceptionalism and Membership Growth James T. Duke 6. Neither Mormon Nor Protestant? The Reorganized Church and the Challenge of Identity Roger D. Launius Part II – The Expansion of Mormonism 7. Ethnic American Mormons: The Development of a Community Jessie L. Embry 8. Mormonism in Chile David Clark Knowlton 9. Mormonism in Black Africa E. Dale LeBaron 10. India: A Synopsis of Cultural Challenges Roger R. Keller Part III – Emotional and Social Life 11. Childhood in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain Reflected in Some Latter-Day Sources Malcolm R. Thorp 12. Guilt, Fear, Anxiety and Love: Disciplinary Councils Among Latter-Day Saints Today Melvyn Hammarberg 13. An Overview of Mormonism and Mental Health Daniel K. Judd 14. Commitment Making: Mate Selection Process Among Active Mormon American Couples Thomas B. Holman Part IV – Early Mormonism15. Mormons and the Millennial World-View Grant Underwood 16. Magic and Mormon Religion Douglas J. Davies 17. ‘Companions and Forerunners’: English Romantics and the Restauration Gordon K. Thomas I Part V – Female Factors 18. Issues in Contemporary Mormon Feminism Lynn Matthews Anderson 19. ‘Choose ye this day whom ye will serve’: Latter-Day Saint Mothers’ Reaction To A Church Leader’s Instruction to Remain in the Home Bruce A. Chadwick and H. Dean Garrett Part VI – Mormon Scripture and Theology 20. Does the Book of Mormon Support ‘My Country Right or Wrong,’ Just War or Pacifism? Andrew Bolton 21. The Death/Rebirth Mytheme in the Book of Mormon Seth D. Kunin 22. Must God Be Incorporeal? David L. Paulsen Part VII – The Future of Mormon Studies 23. Mormon Studies: Progress and Prospects David J. Whittaker 24. Views of an International Religion Douglas J. Davies BibliographyIndex...
