Railroading religion: Mormons, tourists, and the corporate spirit of the West
"Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, W...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Press
[2019]
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| In: | Jahr: 2019 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
USA
/ Mormonen
/ Eisenbahnbau
/ Tourismus
/ Geschichte 1800-1900
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik AZ Neue Religionen KBQ Nordamerika KDH Christliche Sondergemeinschaften |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Railroads (West (U.S.))
History 19th century
B Corinne (Utah) History 19th century B Mormon Church Public opinion History 19th century B Mormon Church History 19th century B Tourism (United States) History 19th century |
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| Parallele Ausgabe: | Elektronisch
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, Walker argues, accomplished nothing less than the rise of religion as a category of both the popular and scholarly imagination. As it happened, the burgeoning of railroad-related alliances and businesses stimulated LDS Church officials to mobilize in ways that ironically yielded increasingly dynamic and expansive religious institutions. Rather than eradicating or diminishing Mormonism western railroads and their boosters helped to establish it as a normative American religion"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1469653192 |