Download or read book The Christian Reconstruction of Utah written by Robert Gibson McNiece and published by . This book was released on 1879* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Reconstruction written by Michael J. McVicar and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001). Drawing on exclusive access to Rushdoony's personal papers and extensive correspondence, Michael J. McVicar demonstrates the considerable role Reconstructionism played in the development of the radical Christian Right and an American theocratic agenda. As a religious movement, Reconstructionism aims at nothing less than "reconstructing" individuals through a form of Christian governance that, if implemented in the lives of U.S. citizens, would fundamentally alter the shape of American society. McVicar examines Rushdoony's career and traces Reconstructionism as it grew from a grassroots, populist movement in the 1960s to its height of popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He reveals the movement's galvanizing role in the development of political conspiracy theories and survivalism, libertarianism and antistatism, and educational reform and homeschooling. The book demonstrates how these issues have retained and in many cases gained potency for conservative Christians to the present day, despite the decline of the movement itself beginning in the 1990s. McVicar contends that Christian Reconstruction has contributed significantly to how certain forms of religiosity have become central, and now familiar, aspects of an often controversial conservative revolution in America.
Download or read book Christian Progress in Utah written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beyond the Pale of Human Sympathy written by Brett David Dowdle and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is a thematic history of the place of Utah and Mormonism within what Elliott West has dubbed "the Greater Reconstruction Era." As such, it considers the various ways and means by which the federal government pursued reconstructive measures in Utah between 1856 and 1890, ending with Mormonism's official renunciation of polygamy on September 25, 1890. In its first chapter, I attempt to explain why nineteenth-century Americans believed Mormonism was in need of reconstructive action. In the following chapters, I then examine the various modes and methods of the reconstruction which occurred in Utah. Considering reconstruction as a multi-faceted and ideological endeavor, I survey the ways that the federal government drew upon the military, economic forces, educational measures, and legislative enactments to effect transformative changes within Utah during the stated period. In this dissertation, I argue that while Southern reconstruction was cut short in the South, the reconstruction of Mormonism demonstrates that the reconstruction of the American West was a sustained and protracted process. A study of the reconstruction of Utah illuminates the modes and methods that fueled the Greater Reconstruction of America's racial, ethnic, and religious minorities. Although certain peculiarities mark the Mormon story and distinguish it from the nation's other reconstructed groups, the general patterns and purposes of reconstructive actions were consistent with the government's other reconstructive projects. The Mormon story of reconstruction thus helps to illustrate the broader principles and patterns upon which this national reconstruction was carried out in the latter-half of the nineteenth century. I further argue that in many regards, Mormonism represented the most profoundly successful undertaking of the reconstruction era. While reconstructive policies left an enduring mark upon each of the communities specifically targeted for transformation, few if any of those communities were as profoundly changed as was Mormonism, which moved from American exiles to examples of Americanism between 1850 and 1950. Facilitating this odyssey, federal officials employed a variety of policies that worked to reconstruct nearly every segment of Mormon Society.
Download or read book Reconstruction and Mormon America written by Clyde A. Milner and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South has been the standard focus of Reconstruction, but reconstruction following the Civil War was not a distinctly Southern experience. In the post–Civil War West, American Indians also experienced reconstruction through removal to reservations and assimilation to Christianity, and Latter-day Saints—Mormons—saw government actions to force the end of polygamy under threat of disestablishing the church. These efforts to bring nonconformist Mormons into the American mainstream figure in the more familiar scheme of the federal government’s reconstruction—aimed at rebellious white Southerners and uncontrolled American Indians. In this volume, more than a dozen contributors look anew at the scope of the reconstruction narrative and offer a unique perspective on the history of the Latter-day Saints. Marshaled by editors Clyde A. Milner II and Brian Q. Cannon, these writers explore why the federal government wanted to reconstruct Latter-day Saints, when such efforts began, and how the initiatives compare with what happened with white Southerners and American Indians. Other contributions examine the effect of the government’s policies on Mormon identity and sense of history. Why, for example, do Latter-day Saints not have a Lost Cause? Do they share a resentment with American Indians over the loss of sovereignty? And were nineteenth-century Mormons considered to be on the “wrong” side of a religious line, but not a “race line”? The authors consider these and other vital questions and topics here. Together, and in dialogue with one another, their work suggests a new way of understanding the regional, racial, and religious dynamics of reconstruction—and, within this framework, a new way of thinking about the creation of a Mormon historical identity.
Download or read book Same Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth Century Americans written by D. Michael Quinn and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001-06-15 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association and named one of the best religion books of the year by Publishers Weekly, D. Michael Quinn's Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans has elicited critical acclaim as well as controversy. Using Mormonism as a case study of the extent of early America's acceptance of same-sex intimacy, Quinn examines several examples of long-term relationships among Mormon same-sex couples and the environment in which they flourished before the onset of homophobia in the late 1950s.
Download or read book Moral Reconstruction written by Gaines M. Foster and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made narcotics contraband, and stopped the manufacture and sale of alcohol. Gaines Foster explores the force behind this unprecedented federal regulation of personal morality--a combined Christian lobby. Foster analyzes the fears of appetite and avarice that led organizations such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Reform Association to call for moral legislation and examines the efforts and interconnections of the men and women who lobbied for it. His account underscores the crucial role white southerners played in the rise of moral reform after 1890. With emancipation, white southerners no longer needed to protect slavery from federal intervention, and they seized on moral legislation as a tool for controlling African Americans. Enriching our understanding of the aftermath of the Civil War and the expansion of national power, Moral Reconstruction also offers valuable insight into the link between historical and contemporary efforts to legislate morality.
Download or read book Christian Reconstruction written by Gary North and published by Inst for Christian Economics. This book was released on 1991 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information on the book "Christian Reconstruction: What It Is, What It Isn't" (ISBN 0930464532), written by Gary North and Gary DeMar. Includes a book summary, bibliographic details, and downloadable versions in HTML and PDF formats, provided by the Institute for Christian Economics (ICE) in Tyler, Texas.
Download or read book The Republic for Which It Stands written by Richard White and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the country's future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The "dangerous" classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.
Download or read book History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints written by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Prophet in Utah the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft written by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft" by Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins and Frank J. Cannon Frank Jenne Cannon was the first United States Senator from Utah who, with the help of the writer O'Higgins shared with the world the political, monetary, and social aftermath of Utah's admission into the United States. As a member of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, he also provided religious insight on the implications of this transitionary period.
Download or read book The Journal of Christian Reconstruction written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Necrological Reports and Annual Proceedings of the Alumni Association of Princeton Theological Seminary 1910 1919 written by Princeton Theological Seminary. Alumni Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christian Progress in Utah written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Princeton Seminary Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One no. of each vol. is the academic catalog of the Seminary, 1907-77, which is published separately, 1978-
Download or read book Homiletic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Banner of Heaven written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
