American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781469628639
Subjects: Mormons; Education, higher, united states
Description: "The book situates American universities as a unique egalitarian cultural and institutional space for Mormons in nineteenth-century American society. They were places where Mormons could experience a personally transformative sense of freedom and dignity, equip themselves for taking advantageous paths in American society, and explore provisional reconciliations of religious and scientific perspectives. Contributing to an understanding of the evolution of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints in the context of American history, Simpson chronicles a Mormon intellectual pilgrimage made by hundreds of youth to the elite universities of the United States"--