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Auteur(s) : Coviello, Peter
Titre(s) : Make yourselves gods [Texte imprimé] : Mormons and the unfinished business of American secularism / Peter Coviello
Publication : Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (304 p.) ; 23 cm
Collection : Class 200 : new studies in religion
Lien à la collection : Class 200
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
"The story of nineteenth-century Mormonism told in Make Yourselves Gods is one of
dynamism and violence, but also the wild beauty and imaginative power. Peter Coviello
follows the Mormons from the period of their earliest emergence as a dissident sect-widely
despised as self-governing religious zealots and sex-radicals-to safely enfranchised
subjects of the United States. During their exodus to the West, Mormons saw themselves
as having less in common with white Protestants than with Native tribes, fellow-refugees
from imperial America who also enjoyed social arrangements unstructured by monogamy.
They were cast out from Protestant America, defined socially and sexually by their
extravagances of belief. in other words, by bad religion. When the Mormons at last
renounced polygamy at the end of the nineteenth century-thereby attaining statehood
for Utah and becoming enfranchised U.S. subjects-they fell under the protection secularism's
"toleration" but also found themselves paying, Coviello argues, the complex wages
of racial and sexual normativity. Coviello is the first to tell the story of Mormonism
across these several registers, synthesizing archival research with the conceptual
tools queer theory, political theology, and Native Studies. The result is a new framework
for imagining heterodoxy, citizenship, and sex in secularizing nineteenth-century
America"
Sujet(s) : Eglise de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours -- États-Unis -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
289.373 (23e éd.) = Églises originaires du mouvement des Saints des derniers jours - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-226-47433-5 (br.). - ISBN 0-226-47433-x
EAN 9780226474335
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb458553834
Notice n° :
FRBNF45855383
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Table des matières : Part One: Axiomatic ; Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Secularism
; Part Two: Joy ; Endless Felicity: The Radiant Body of Early Mormon Theology ;
Gods in Subjection: Women, Polygamy, and the Eternity of Sex ; Part Three: Extermination
; The Polygamist's Complexion; or, The Book of Mormon Goes West ; Wards and Sovereigns:
Deviance and Dominion in the Biopolitics of Secularism ; Part Four: Theodicy ; Conclusion:
Protohomonationalism.
