E Marshall Brooks

Disenchanted Lives

Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism Among the Latter-Day Saints

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Produktbeschreibung

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons) once heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Many members’ study of church history and scriptures has pushed them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among Mormons in Utah.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780813592190
• ISBN-10: 0813592194
• Artikelnr.: 50759564

Autorenporträt

E. Marshall Brooks is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health and lectures in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. 

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: The “Crisis of Apostasy” in Modern Mormonism             
1    Ambivalent Pasts: Sacred History and the Crisis of Memory            
    
2    “Digging too Deep”: The Paradox of Faith                            
  
3    “The Other Side of Happiness”: Disenchantment, Loss, and
World-Collapse
4    “I Lost My Body to the Church”: Sexual and Spiritual (dis)Embodiment  
        
5    “Living in the Shadow of the Church”: Apostasy, Stigma, and Projective
Fantasy          
6    “I’m Apostate, Yes I am”: The Politics and Performance of Secular
Identity               
7    Religious (dis)Identification: Acquiescence and Anger on the Edge of
Mormonism     
Conclusions: “Pastoral Apologetics” and the Future of Mormonism        
References
About the Author