E. Marshall Brooks

Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism Among the Latter-Day Saints

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Produktbeschreibung

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons) once heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Many members’ study of church history and scriptures has pushed them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among Mormons in Utah.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592190
• ISBN-10: 0813592194
• Artikelnr.: 50759564

Autorenporträt

Brooks, E. Marshall

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The "Crisis of Apostasy" in Modern Mormonism             
1    Ambivalent Pasts: Sacred History and the Crisis of Memory            
    
2    "Digging too Deep": The Paradox of Faith                            
  
3    "The Other Side of Happiness": Disenchantment, Loss, and
World-Collapse
4    "I Lost My Body to the Church": Sexual and Spiritual (dis)Embodiment  
        
5    "Living in the Shadow of the Church": Apostasy, Stigma, and Projective
Fantasy          
6    "I'm Apostate, Yes I am": The Politics and Performance of Secular
Identity               
7    Religious (dis)Identification: Acquiescence and Anger on the Edge of
Mormonism     
Conclusions: "Pastoral Apologetics" and the Future of Mormonism        
References
About the Author