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American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940

[Hardback]

by Thomas W. Simpson

    • Author

      Thomas W. Simpson

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      The University of North Carolina Press

    • Published

      September 2016

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      American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940

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      In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academicmigration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860sthroughthe late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life.At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities, and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism's sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger. "

      Specification

      • Author

        Thomas W. Simpson

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        The University of North Carolina Press

      • Published

        September 2016

      • Weight

        559g

      • Page Count

        246

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9781469630229

      • ISBN-10

        1469630222

      • Eden Code

        4492551

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      • Author/Creator: Thomas W. Simpson

      • ISBN: 9781469630229

      • Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press

      • Release Date: September 2016

      • Weight: 559g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 4492551

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