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Book Mormons in the Piazza

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Toronto
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-01-02
  • ISBN : 9781944394103
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Mormons in the Piazza written by James Toronto and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research on Church history and religious change among Italian Mormons is intended to help provide a comprehensive account and thorough analysis of the people, events, and issues related to this important chapter in Church history.This volume highlights the human drama associated with the encounters between foreign missionaries and local spiritual seekers, discussing the tensions and adjustments that result at both the individual and institutional levels, and explores the implications of religious growth across obstacles of faith, geography, and culture.

Book The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism written by R. Gordon Shepherd and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explores contemporary Mormonism within a global context. The authors provide a nuanced picture of a historically American religion in the throes of the same kinds of global change that virtually every conservative faith tradition faces today. They explain where and how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has penetrated national and cultural boundaries in Latin America, Oceania, Europe, Asia, and Africa, as well as in North America beyond the borders of Mormon Utah. They also address numerous concerns within a multinational, multicultural church: What does it mean to be a Latter-day Saint in different world regions? What is the faith’s appeal to converts in these places? What are the peculiar problems for members who must manage Mormon identities in conjunction with their different national, cultural, and ethnic identities? How are leaders dealing with such issues as the status of women in a patriarchal church, the treatment of LGBTQ members, increasing disaffiliation of young people, and decreasing growth rates in North and Latin America while sustaining increasing growth in parts of Asia and Africa?

Book Latter Gay Saints

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  • Author : Gerald S. Argetsinger
  • Publisher : Lethe Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1590212649
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Latter Gay Saints written by Gerald S. Argetsinger and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latter-Gay Saints brings together twenty-five exemplary short works depicting a variety of perspectives of what it means to be both Mormon and queer. Some portray characters determined to reconcile their sexuality with the Mormon faith in accordance with its constantly evolving teachings and policies. The majority present the realities of queer Mormons who have come to terms with their sexuality in a variety of alternative ways. Others are written from outside the Mormon community, commenting on often strange encounters with Mormons who are gay. These stories are also of value for the broader GLBT community revealing similarities that people of faith, regardless of which faith, face in attempting to negotiate their religious heritage with their homosexuality. Some in the GLBT community find a way, while others do not, leaving their faith or having it ripped from them. They are all individuals searching for answers to life's puzzles.

Book The Piazza Tales

Download or read book The Piazza Tales written by Herman Melville and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this Herman Melville collection are six tales that range considerably -- from "The Encantadas" (an allegorical travelogue) to the haunting "Bartleby, the Scrivener." Opening the volume is "The Piazza," a pastoral sketch that frames the collection. "Benito Cerenno" -- a subversive satire -- of grows out of a true story of mutiny among the enslaved . . .

Book True Sisters

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  • Author : Sandra Dallas
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2012-04-24
  • ISBN : 1250005027
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book True Sisters written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four women seeking the promise of salvation and prosperity in a new land.

Book Kingdom of Nauvoo  The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

Download or read book Kingdom of Nauvoo The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier written by Benjamin E. Park and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Book Award • Mormon History Association A brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal). In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others—including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith—the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.

Book The Piazza Tales

Download or read book The Piazza Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Italian Mission

Download or read book The Italian Mission written by Lorenzo Snow and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to his family relating his mission experience.

Book Utah and the Mormons

Download or read book Utah and the Mormons written by Benjamin G. Ferris and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secretary of the Territory of Utah, residence in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, during the severe winter of 1852-53. pref.

Book The Story of the Mormons

Download or read book The Story of the Mormons written by William Alexander Linn and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1902 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of the Mormons  from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901

Download or read book The Story of the Mormons from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901 written by William Alexander Linn and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 1065 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book The Story of the Mormons from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901

Download or read book The Story of the Mormons from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901 written by William Alexander Linn and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 1129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saved at Last from Among the Mormons

Download or read book Saved at Last from Among the Mormons written by Mrs. A. G. Paddock and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empires  Nations  and Families

Download or read book Empires Nations and Families written by Anne Farrar Hyde and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations, and Families makes clear, virgin wilderness discovered by virtuous Anglo entrepreneurs. Rather, the United States was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires. This book documents the broad family associations that crossed national and ethnic lines and that, along with the river systems of the trans-Mississippi West, formed the basis for a global trade in furs that had operated for hundreds of years before the land became part of the United States. ø Empires, Nations, and Families shows how the world of river and maritime trade effectively shifted political power away from military and diplomatic circles into the hands of local people. Tracing family stories from the Canadian North to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands and from the Pacific Coast to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers, Anne F. Hyde?s narrative moves from the earliest years of the Indian trade to the Mexican War and the gold rush era. Her work reveals how, in the 1850s, immigrants to these newest regions of the United States violently wrested control from Native and other powers, and how conquest and competing demands for land and resources brought about a volatile frontier culture?not at all the peace and prosperity that the new power had promised.

Book The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces  1839 1860

Download or read book The Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces 1839 1860 written by Herman Melville and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1987-09 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included are two sea tales that encompass the essence of Melville's art: "Benito Cereno", an exhilarating account of mutiny and rescue aboard a disabled slave ship, which is a parable of man's struggle against the forces of evil, and "The Encantadas", ten allegorical sketches of the Galapagos Islands, which reveal nature to be both enchanting and horrifying. Two pieces explore themes of isolation and defeat found in Melville's great novels: "Bartelby, the Scrivener", a prophetically modern story of alienation and loss on nineteenth-century Wall Street, and "The Bell Tower", a Faustian tale about a Renaissance architect who brings about his own violent destruction. The other two works reveal Melville's mastery of very different writing styles: "The Lightning-Rod Man", a satire showcasing his talent for Dickensian comedy, and "The Piazza", the title story of the collection, which anticipates the author's later absorption with poetry.

Book Remarks   by Bill Nye

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Nye
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Library
  • Release : 1891
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book Remarks by Bill Nye written by Bill Nye and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1891 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rocky Mountain Saints  a Full and Complete History of the Mormons  from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young

Download or read book The Rocky Mountain Saints a Full and Complete History of the Mormons from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young written by T.B.H. Stenhouse and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: