Mormon Visual Culture and the American West

Mormon Visual Culture and the American West
Author: Nathan Rees
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2021-03-17
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000349799

This book explores the place of art in Latter-day Saint society during the first 50 years of the Utah settlement, beginning in 1847. Nathan Rees uncovers the critical role that images played in nineteenth-century Mormon religion, politics, and social practice. These artists not only represented, but actively participated in debates about theology, politics, race, gender, and sexuality at a time when Latter-day Saints were grappling with evolving doctrine, conflict with Native Americans, and political turmoil resulting from their practice of polygamy. The book makes an important contribution to art history, Mormon studies, American studies, and religious studies.

Latter-Day Saint Art

Latter-Day Saint Art
Author: Amanda K. Beardsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 665
Release: 2024
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0197632505

Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader seeks to fill a substantial gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth century to the present. The volume includes twenty-two essays examining art by, for, or about Mormons, as well as over 200 high-quality color illustrations.

By the Hand of Mormon

By the Hand of Mormon
Author: Walter Rane
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Total Pages: 69
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781570089190

Mormon Women’s History

Mormon Women’s History
Author: Rachel Cope
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611479657

Mormon Women’s History: Beyond Biography demonstrates that the history and experience of Mormon women is central to the history of Mormonism and to histories of American religion, politics, and culture. Yet the study of Mormon women has mostly been confined to biographies, family histories, and women’s periodicals. The contributors to Mormon Women’s History engage the vast breadth of sources left by Mormon women—journals, diaries, letters, family histories, and periodicals as well as art, poetry, material culture, theological treatises, and genealogical records—to read between the lines, reconstruct connections, recover voices, reveal meanings, and recast stories. Mormon Women’s History presents women as incredibly inter-connected. Familial ties of kinship are multiplied and stretched through the practice and memory of polygamy, social ties of community are overlaid with ancestral ethnic connections and local congregational assignments, fictive ties are woven through shared interests and collective memories of violence and trauma. Conversion to a new faith community unites and exposes the differences among Native Americans, Yankees, and Scandinavians. Lived experiences of marriage, motherhood, death, mourning, and widowhood are played out within contexts of expulsion and exile, rape and violence, transnational immigration, establishing “civilization” in a wilderness, and missionizing both to new neighbors and far away peoples. Gender defines, limits, and opens opportunities for private expression, public discourse, and popular culture. Cultural prejudices collide with doctrinal imperatives against backdrops of changing social norms, emerging professional identities, and developing ritualization and sacralization of lived religion. The stories, experiences, and examples explored in Mormon Women’s History are neither comprehensive nor conclusive, but rather suggestive of the ways that Mormon women’s history can move beyond individual lives to enhance and inform larger historical narratives.

The Gathering Home

The Gathering Home
Author: Emily Belle Freeman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-12-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781629728223

Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites
Author: Chris Heimerdinger
Publisher: Covenant Communications
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1991-03-01
Genre: Adventure stories, American
ISBN: 9781555031312