From the outside looking in : : essays on Mormon history, theology, and culture / / edited by Reid L. Neilson and Matthew J. Grow.

• TeilnehmendeR: Neilson, Reid Larkin, 1972-; Grow, Matthew J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Oxford University Press,, [2016]; 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (439 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

The free seekers : religious culture in upstate New York, 1790-1835 / Alan Taylor -- Prophets in America ca. 1830 : Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith / Richard H. Brodhead -- Historical reflections on Mormon futures / Stephen J. Stein -- Catherine A. Brekus, Mormon women and the problem of historical agency -- Mormons, freethinkers, and the limits of toleration / Leigh Schmidt -- The construction of the Mormon people / Charles L. Cohen -- Becoming Mormon / Elliott West -- "Faith in the religion of their fathers" : passing Mormonism from one generation to the next / Randall Balmer -- What the Mormon cultural landscape can teach us / Dell Upton -- Thoughts from the farther West : Mormons, California, and the Civil War / William Deverell -- The Mormons and America's empires / Walter Nugent -- Mormon stories : a librarian's perspective / George A. Miles -- The Latter-day Saints, the doughnut, and post-Christian Canada / David B. Marshall -- Letting go : understanding Mormon growth in Africa / Philip Jenkins -- "Would that all God's people were prophets" : Mormonism and the new shape of global Christianity / Jehu J. Hanciles.