New PDF release: The Mormon Quest for Glory: The Religious World of the

By Melvyn Hammarberg

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has 6 million contributors within the usa at the present time (and thirteen million worldwide). but, whereas there was vast examine of Mormon heritage, relatively little scholarly realization has been paid to modern Mormons. the easiest sociological examine of Mormon lifestyles, Thomas O'Dea's The Mormons, is now over fifty years outdated. what's it prefer to be a Mormon in the USA this day? Melvyn Hammarberg makes an attempt to respond to this query through providing an ethnography of latest Mormons. In The Mormon Quest for Glory, Hammarberg examines Mormon heritage, rituals, social association, kinfolk connections, gender roles, creative traditions, use of media, and missionary paintings. He writes as a sympathetic outsider who has studied Mormon lifestyles for many years, and strives to give an explanation for the non secular international of the Latter-day Saints in the course of the lens in their personal religious knowing. Drawing on a survey, player statement, interviews, concentration teams, attendance at spiritual gatherings, diaries, church periodicals, lesson manuals, and different church literature, Hammarberg goals to offer a finished photograph of the non secular international of the Latter-day Saints.

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