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| Author | : Kristeen Lee Black |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Families |
| ISBN | : 9781495504549 |
This project explores the social structure and social construction of family within LDS congregations and argues that ward families are special types of kinship networks, woven together by an ethic of care that enables their members to consider fellow congregants as family
| Author | : Kristeen Lee Black |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Christian communities |
| ISBN | : |
This dissertation explored the social structure of family within LDS congregations and argued that ward families are special types of kinship networks. Ward families are woven together by an ethic of care that enables their members to consider fellow congregants as family. Although this capacious idea and lived experience of family is in direct contrast to the official Church rhetoric of family as found in "The Family: A Proclamation to the World," the phenomena of ward families illustrates how applying an extended and flexible idea of family in group settings produces caring and cohesive communities. Within Mormonism a heteronormative model of family is a necessary part of Church doctrine and ritual, but it is not sufficient for creating cohesive communities. The findings in this study thereby challenge the argument that only a heteronormative model of family supports strong communities. Although maintaining kinship networks hinges upon recognizing others as kin, meaning some are left out, ward families are inclusive and able to recognize that they are part of a human family. The ethic of care that binds ward families together is constructed through a combination of LDS doctrine, history, and bureaucratic form. The LDS doctrine of family includes embodied heavenly parents who beget humankind as spirit-children. LDS temple ritual enables generations of families to be bound together in the eternities, and Mormon doctrine claims that only those married in the temple will gain the highest level of heaven thereby making the family a necessary element in salvation and the afterlife. Mormon pioneer history contains the practice of polygamy, an experimental model of family, and narratives of communities working together to build a new home in the West. Throughout all of Mormon history, joining the LDS Church often means being alienated from one's biological family and friends, as such, fellow believers are often embraced as a surrogate family. The LDS bureaucratic structure of lay leadership establishes callings that instill a duty to care for others. Service becomes an institutionally constructed disposition and a part of an LDS lifestyle--being a Mormon means serving God by serving others, and seeing humankind as kin.
| Author | : Marie Cornwall |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 390 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780252069598 |
Contemporary Mormonism is the first collection of sociological essays to focus exclusively on Mormons. Featuring the work of the major scholars conducting social science research on Mormons today, this volume offers refreshing new perspectives not only on Mormonism but also on the nature of successful religious movements, secularization and assimilation, church growth, patriarchy and gender roles, and other topics. This first paperback edition includes a new introduction assessing the current state of Mormon scholarship and the effect of the globalization of the LDS Church on scholarly research about Mormonism.
| Author | : Douglas J. Davies |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2018-12-07 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1351885502 |
The Mormon Culture of Salvation presents a comprehensive study of Mormon cultural and religious life, offering important new theories of Mormonism - one of the fastest growing movements and thought by many to be the next world religion. Bringing social, scientific and theological perspectives to bear on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Douglas Davies draws from theology, history of religions, anthropology, sociology and psychology to present a unique example of a truly interdisciplinary analysis in religious studies. Examining the many aspects of Mormon belief, ritual, family life and history, this book presents a new interpretation of the origin of Mormonism, arguing that Mormonism is rooted in the bereavement experience of Joseph Smith, which influenced the development of temple ritual for the dead and the genealogical work of many Mormon families. Davies shows how the Mormon commitment to work for salvation relates to current Mormon belief in conversion, and to traditional Christian ideas of grace. The Mormon Culture of Salvation is an important work for Mormons and non-Mormons alike, offering fresh insights into how Mormons see the world and work for their future glory in heavenly realms. Written by a non-Mormon with over 30 years' research experience into Mormonism, this book is essential reading for those seeking insights into new interdisciplinary forms of analysis in religion, as well as all those studying or interested in Mormonism and world religions. Douglas J. Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion in the Department of Theology, Durham University, UK. He is the author of many books including Death, Ritual and Belief (Cassell, 1997), Mormon Identities in Transition (Cassell, 1994), Mormon Spirituality (1987), and Meaning and Salvation in Religious Studies (Brill, 1984).
| Author | : Jason Palmer |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 500 |
| Release | : 2024-06-25 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0252056736 |
Peruvian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints face the dilemma of embracing their faith while finding space to nourish their Peruvianness. Jason Palmer draws on eight years of fieldwork to provide an on-the-ground look at the relationship between Peruvian Saints and the racial and gender complexities of the contemporary Church. Peruvian Saints discovered that the foundational ideas of kinship and religion ceased being distinct categories in their faith. At the same time, they came to see that LDS rituals and reenactments placed coloniality in opposition to the Peruvians’ indigenous roots and family against the more expansive Peruvian idea of familia. In part one, Palmer explores how Peruvian Saints resolved the first clash by creating the idea of a new pioneer indigeneity that rejected victimhood in favor of subtle engagements with power. Part two illuminates the work performed by Peruvian Saints as they stretched the Anglo Church’s model of the nuclear family to encompass familia.
| Author | : Taylor G. Petrey |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2024-09-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1469682710 |
Exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, and kinship within the context of Latter-day Saint theology and history, this book contains elements that can be reinterpreted through a queer lens. Taylor Petrey reexamines and resignifies Mormon cosmology in the context of queer theory, offering a fresh perspective on divine relationships, gender fluidity, and the concept of kinship itself. Petrey's work draws together queer studies and the academic study of religion in new ways, providing a nuanced understanding of how religious narratives and doctrines can be reimagined to include more diverse interpretations of identity and community.
| Author | : Ephraim Edward Ericksen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 118 |
| Release | : 1922 |
| Genre | : Mormon Church |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Armand L. Mauss |
| Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780252020711 |
"The past few decades have witnessed an increasing reaction of the Mormons against their own successful assimilation", Armand Mauss writes in The Angel and the Beehive, "as though trying to recover some of the cultural tension and special identity associated with their earlier 'sect-like' history". This retrenchment among Mormons is the main theme of Mauss's book, which analyzes the last forty years of Mormon history from a sociological perspective. At the official ecclesiastical level, Mauss finds, the retrenchment can be seen in the greatly increased centralization of bureaucratic control and in renewed emphases on obedience to modern prophets, on genealogy and vicarious temple work, and on traditional family life; retrenchment is also apparent in extensive formal religious indoctrination by full-time professionals and in an increased sophistication and intensity of proselytizing. At what he refers to as "the folk or grassroots level", Mauss finds that Mormons have generally been compliant with the retrenchment effort and are today at least as "religious" on most measures as they were in the 1960s. A sizable segment of the Mormon membership, Mauss asserts, has gone beyond "Mormon" retrenchment to express itself in a growing resort to Protestant fundamentalism, both in scriptural understanding and in intellectual style. The author calls on a wide array of sources in sociology and history to show that Mormons, who by mid-century had come a long way from their position as disreputable "outsiders" in a society dominated by the mainline religions, seem now to be adopting more conservative ways and seeking a return to a more sectarian posture.
| Author | : Taylor G. Petrey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 1315 |
| Release | : 2020-04-30 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1351181580 |
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is an outstanding reference source to this controversial subject area. Since its founding in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has engaged gender in surprising ways. LDS practice of polygamy in the nineteenth century both fueled rhetoric of patriarchal rule as well as gave polygamous wives greater autonomy than their monogamous peers. The tensions over women’s autonomy continued after polygamy was abandoned and defined much of the twentieth century. In the 1970s, 1990s, and 2010s, Mormon feminists came into direct confrontation with the male Mormon hierarchy. These public clashes produced some reforms, but fell short of accomplishing full equality. LGBT Mormons have a similar history. These movements are part of the larger story of how Mormonism has managed changing gender norms in a global context. Comprising over forty chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into four parts: • Methodological issues • Historical approaches • Social scientific approaches • Theological approaches. These sections examine central issues, debates, and problems, including: agency, feminism, sexuality and sexual ethics, masculinity, queer studies, plural marriage, homosexuality, race, scripture, gender and the priesthood, the family, sexual violence, and identity. The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, gender studies, and women’s studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, politics, anthropology, and sociology.
