Mormon Identities in Transition (Cassell Religious Studies) - Hardcover

Conference On Mormon Studies (1995 University Of Nottingham)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0304336866 ISBN 13: 9780304336869

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Truly interdisciplinary, this collection of essays explores one of the prime concerns of Mormon Studies - the relation between knowledge and spirituality - and how that relation has been defined and reinterpreted over time. Beginning with a 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.
Contributors - including practising Mormons - review the expansion of Mormonism, the emotional and social contexts of its historic and contemporary manifestations, the distinctions between 'Utah' Mormons and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints, and issues in Mormon feminism, concluding with a valuable review of the sources and documents available for studying Mormonism.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0304336866
• ISBN 13: 9780304336869
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246
• Herausgeber: Davies Douglas James
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