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Zusatztext This book is a great example of a text that is suitable for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students wishing to expand their knowledge of Mormon history, as most chapters assume more than a basic knowledge of the subject. Individual chapters could easily be assigned for both undergraduate and graduate classes. The book's chapters are relatively short in length, around twenty pages or so each, and this allows one to dip in and out of the text. The inclusion of chapters by established academics in the field, as well students in the last stages of their doctoral work at the time of publication, helps demonstrate a plurality of voices and is an excellent example of the editors' efforts to support junior scholars. Informationen zum Autor Patrick Q. Mason is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University.John G. Turner is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University. Klappentext Out of Obscurity brings the story of Mormonism since the Second World War into sharp relief, explaining the ways in which a church very much rooted in its nineteenth-century prophetic and pioneering past achieved unprecedented influence in the realms of American politics and international business. Zusammenfassung Out of Obscurity brings the story of Mormonism since the Second World War into sharp relief, explaining the ways in which a church very much rooted in its nineteenth-century prophetic and pioneering past achieved unprecedented influence in the realms of American politics and international business. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributor biographies Introduction Patrick Q. Mason Part I. Internationalization 1. International Legal Experience and the Mormon Theology of the State, 1945-2012 Nathan Oman 2. The Internationalization of Mormonism: Indications from India Taunalyn Rutherford Part II. Political Culture 3. Ezra Taft Benson and Modern (Book of) Mormon Conservatism Patrick Q. Mason 4. The Romney Lens: A Bifocal Approach to Mormonism, American Religion, and Politics in the Past Half-Century J. B. Haws 5. "The Puritan Ethic on High": LDS Media and the Mormon Embrace of Free Enterprise in the 20th Century James Dennis LoRusso 6. The Pageantry of Protest in Temple Square Max Perry Mueller 7. Mormons and Same-Sex Marriage: From ERA to Prop 8 Neil J. Young Part III. Gender 8. Mahana, You Naked! Modesty, Sexuality, and Race in the Mormon Pacific Amanda Hendrix-Komoto 9. Mormons and Housework during Second Wave Feminism Kate Holbrook 10. Saying Goodbye to the Final Say: The Softening and Reimagining of Mormon Male Headship Ideologies Caroline Kline 11. Blogging the Boundaries: Mormon Mommy Blogs and the Construction of Mormon Identity Kristine Haglund Part IV. Religious Culture 12. The Evangelical Countercult Movement and Mormon Conservatism Matthew Bowman 13. Holding on to the "Chosen Generation": The LDS Church and the Battle for Youth in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s Rebecca de Schweinitz 14. Everyone Can Be a Pioneer: The Sesquicentennial Celebrations of Mormon Arrival in the Salt Lake Valley Sara M. Patterson 15. "All the truth does not always need to be told": The LDS Church, Mormon History, and Religious Authority John G. Turner Index ...
