Disenchanted Lives : : Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints / / E. Marshall Brooks.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Rather than strengthening their faith, the study of church history and scriptures by many members pushes them away from Mormonism and...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (254 p.) :; 9 b-w photographs |
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| Summary: | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Rather than strengthening their faith, the study of church history and scriptures by many members pushes them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, E. Marshall Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community and not out of a lack of dedication as prominently portrayed in religious and scholarly writing on apostasy. |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780813592220 9783110666083 |
| DOI: | 10.36019/9780813592220 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | E. Marshall Brooks. |