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(5) | None | Fifty years ago, Thomas F. O'Dea, a Catholic sociologist who taught at the University of Utah from 1959 to 1964, published a landmark study titled simply The Mormons. It remains one of the most widely cited social science treatments of Mormon society and culture. Now, after five decades of additional scholarly inquiry, this volume revisits O'Dea's life and work, while offering new insights about the LDS Church and its members. Scholars from the U.S. and Europe contribute to an examination of the interplay between contemporary social issues and the church, including such topics as civil rights, the women's movement, homosexuality, rising divorce rates, and childbirth outside marriage. The relationship of the church to the nation is considered. Finally, issues relating to the international church are also discussed. Drawing from diverse fields such as sociology, economics, theology, psychology, and anthropology, each contribution offers a reflection of O'Dea's The Mormons while considering the persistent themes and contemporary issues that face the church today.… (more) |
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▾Book descriptions Fifty years ago, Thomas F. O'Dea, a Catholic sociologist who taught at the University of Utah from 1959 to 1964, published a landmark study titled simply The Mormons. It remains one of the most widely cited social science treatments of Mormon society and culture. Now, after five decades of additional scholarly inquiry, this volume revisits O'Dea's life and work, while offering new insights about the LDS Church and its members. Scholars from the U.S. and Europe contribute to an examination of the interplay between contemporary social issues and the church, including such topics as civil rights, the women's movement, homosexuality, rising divorce rates, and childbirth outside marriage. The relationship of the church to the nation is considered. Finally, issues relating to the international church are also discussed. Drawing from diverse fields such as sociology, economics, theology, psychology, and anthropology, each contribution offers a reflection of O'Dea's The Mormons while considering the persistent themes and contemporary issues that face the church today. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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Contents:
Introduction: Situating O'Dea among The Mormons
Part I. Engaging O'Dea
1. Thomas F. O'Dea: The New Spirit and Science of Mormon Studies / Lynn England
2. Thomas F. O'Dea and Mormon Intellectual Life: A Reassessment Fifty Years Later / O. Kendall White Jr.
3. Mastery and Mystery / Douglas J. Davies
4. "Common Sense" Meets the Book of Mormon: Source, Substance, and Prophetic Disruption / Terryl L. Givens
Part II. Contemporary Social Issues
5. LDS Family Ideals Versus the Equality of Women: Navigating the Changes Since 1957 / Carrie A. Miles
6. Mormon Women's Issues in the Twenty-First Century / Janet Bennion
7. The Peril and Promise of Social Prognosis: O'Dea and the Race Issue / Armand L. Mauss
8. The Current Crisis in the Formation and Regulation of Latter-day Saint's Sexual Identity / Melvyn Hammarberg
9. Mormons and the State / Michael Nielsen, Barry Balleck
10. Preserving Peculiarity as a People: Mormon Distinctness in Lived Values and Internal Structure / Loren Marks, Brent D. Beal
Part III. The International Church
11. From Near-Nation to New World Religion? / Armand L. Mauss
12. Growth, Retention, and Internationalization / David G. Stewart Jr.
13. The Mormons of the World: The Meaning of LDS Membership in Central America / Henri Gooren
14. Go Ye to All the World: The LDS Church and the Organization of International Society / David Clark Knowlton
15. "That Same Sociality": Mormons and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century / Sarah Busse Spencer
Appendix. Biography of Thomas F. O'Dea
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