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(4) | 1 | The New Mormon History is the banner under which many professional historians today approach Latter-day Saint historiography. Scholars who embrace this term attempt to put significant events into context rather than bracketing data that might seem challenging to traditional assumptions. These scholars are also as interested in the experience of the rank-and-file as in the lives and edicts of the leaders, and pursue questions about women, minorities, domestic life, diet, fashion, and the common church experience. They employ statistical analysis and theories and methods of the social sciences in their work. In this collection, D. Michael Quinn has selected fifteen essays which demonstrate the methods of this new history. Contributors include Thomas G. Alexander, James B. Allen, Leonard J. Arrington, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Eugene E. Campbell, Kenneth L. Cannon II, Mario S. DePillis, Robert B. Flanders, Klaus J. Hansen, William G. Hartley, Stanley S. Ivins, Dean L. May, Linda King Newell, B. H. Roberts, Jan Shipps, and Ronald W. Walker. Participants offer new ideas and give readers the opportunity to determine for themselves the relative success of these approaches by presenting examples. The collection demonstrates areas of interpretation that may be considered revisionist as well.… (more) |
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▾Book descriptions The New Mormon History is the banner under which many professional historians today approach Latter-day Saint historiography. Scholars who embrace this term attempt to put significant events into context rather than bracketing data that might seem challenging to traditional assumptions. These scholars are also as interested in the experience of the rank-and-file as in the lives and edicts of the leaders, and pursue questions about women, minorities, domestic life, diet, fashion, and the common church experience. They employ statistical analysis and theories and methods of the social sciences in their work. In this collection, D. Michael Quinn has selected fifteen essays which demonstrate the methods of this new history. Contributors include Thomas G. Alexander, James B. Allen, Leonard J. Arrington, Maureen Ursenbach Beecher, Eugene E. Campbell, Kenneth L. Cannon II, Mario S. DePillis, Robert B. Flanders, Klaus J. Hansen, William G. Hartley, Stanley S. Ivins, Dean L. May, Linda King Newell, B. H. Roberts, Jan Shipps, and Ronald W. Walker. Participants offer new ideas and give readers the opportunity to determine for themselves the relative success of these approaches by presenting examples. The collection demonstrates areas of interpretation that may be considered revisionist as well. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contents:
Editor’s Introduction
The Search for Truth and Meaning in Mormon History / Leonard J. Arrington
The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism / Mario S. De Pillis
The Significance of Jospeh Smith's "First Vision" in Mormon Thought / James B. Allen
The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith / Jan Shipps
Dream and Nightmare: Nauvoo Revisited / Robert Bruce Flanders
A Gift Given, a Gift Taken: Washing, Annointing, and Blessing the Sick Among Mormon Women / Linda King Newell
A Demographic Portrait of Mormons, 1830-1980 / Dean May
Mormons, Crickets, and Gulls: A New Look at an Old Story / William G. Hartley
The "Leading Sisters": A Female Hierarchy in Nineteenth Century Mormon Society / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
Notes on Mormon Polygamy / Stanley S. Ivins
Divorce Among Mormon Polygamists: Extent and Explanations / Eugene E. Campbell, Bruce L. Campbell
After the Manifesto: Mormon Polygamy, 1890-1906 / Kenneth L. Cannon II
The Metamorphosis of the Kingdom of God: Toward a Reinterpretation of Mormon History / Klaus J. Hansen
"To Maintain Harmony": Adjusting to External and Internal Stress, 1890-1930 / Thomas G. Alexander
Sheaves, Bucklers, and the State: Mormon Leaders Respond to the Dilemmas of War / Ronald W. Walker
Epilogue: "Justice Will Follow Truth" / B.H. Roberts  | |
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