Six Communal Religious Groups and Their Spatial Worlds
Constructing Space interrogates the religious worldviews about and experiences with place among a half dozen religious communities: Shakers, Oneida Perfectionists, LDS, Branch Davidians, FLDS, Adidam.
The coming-of-age memoir of a homebirth midwife in the desert Southwest. Within these birth stories is a larger story of Wrankle leaving her childhood religion and raising her three children in the culturally harsh and unforgiving landscape of southern Utah.
According to the Book of Mormon, dissent wracked the Hebrew prophet Lehi's family after they traveled to the Americas around BC. A son, Laman, led rebellious followers who became 'Lamanites,' cursed by God with a 'skin of blackness.' In the nineteenth century, Joseph Smith, the first prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and ......
Marie-Dominique Chenu demonstrates how this once condemned theologian influenced the major shifts of twentieth-century Catholicism and reveals the relevance of his thought for contemporary theology. In 1942, historian Marie-Dominique Chenu was removed from his teaching position at Le Saulchoir, the French Dominican school of theology, and his ......
Hundreds of Nephite stories with essays on the genre's place in the lives of Latter-day Saints Stories of encounters with the Three Nephites, immortal saint-like figures, dominate the folklore of the Latter-day Saint tradition. The authors of this volume use hundreds of legends collected by the renowned folklorist William A. Wilson from across a ......
Hundreds of Nephite stories with essays on the genre's place in the lives of Latter-day Saints Stories of encounters with the Three Nephites, immortal saint-like figures, dominate the folklore of the Latter-day Saint tradition. The authors of this volume use hundreds of legends collected by the renowned folklorist William A. Wilson from across a ......
Abortion and America's Churches explores the surprising history of how American Christians think about abortion. Many people assume that Christians have steadfastly condemned abortion throughout the United States's history. Daniel K. Williams overthrows all assumptions about the unity, consistency, or simplicity of American Christian thought and ......
The correspondence between Bishop John Carroll and Fr. Charles Plowden offers an "insiders'" look at the establishment of the Catholic Church in the United States and the circumstances of the project of bringing about English Catholic emancipation. Carroll was the chief architect of the former; Plowden was a spirited, and public, and published, ......
The Spatial Politics of Idolatry and Magic in Colonial Mexico
For the Spanish colonizers of Mexico in the sixteenth century, the concept of 'excess' - even the word itself - covered a multitude of sins, including idolatry and magic. In Sins of Excess, Anderson Hagler uses the language of excess as a lens for examining how the colonizers of New Spain conflated cultural diversity into a superficially - and ......
