Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Class 200: New Studies in Religion) by Coviello, Professor Peter - 2019-11-14

Paperback. Very Good.

Univ of Chicago Pr, 2019. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged--socially, sexually, even racially--by the extravagances of belief they called "religion." Make Yourselves Gods offers a counter-history of early Mormon theology and practice, tracking the Saints from their emergence as a dissident sect to their renunciation of polygamy at century's end. Over these turbulent decades, Mormons would appear by turns as heretics, sex-radicals, refugees, anti-imperialists, colonizers, and, eventually, reluctant monogamists and enfranchised citizens. Reading Mormonism through a synthesis of religious history, political theology, native studies, and queer theory, Peter Coviello deftly crafts a new framework for imagining orthodoxy, citizenship, and the fate of the flesh in nineteenth-century America. What emerges is a story about the violence, wild beauty, and extravagant imaginative power… Read More

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