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After 150 Years
The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective

Edited by Thomas Alexander, Jessie L. Embry
Provo: Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, 1983 (216p.)
 

Genre:  History
Summary:
The most common theme in this collection of six essays is adaptation to change. Jan Shipps writes about the acculturation that took place in the 1890s as Mormons moved from living within a mythic world to accepting developments within the larger society. Dean May investigates the implications of the fact that 40 percent of the church decided not to immigrate to the Great Basin and remained in the Midwest and that the ranks of Utah settlers were augmented by foreign converts. Essays by Edward Geary and Eugene England survey self-portrayals of Latter-day Saints in literature. LaMond Tullis looks at the expansion of the church into Latin America. James Allen examines the impact of technological changes on LDS consciousness.

HBLL Call No: Ame BX 8608 .A1a no.6650
This publication includes:
The Dawning of a Brighter Day: Mormon Literature After 150 Years by Eugene England
Pages: 97-146
Criticism
In the Presence of the Past: Continuity and Change in Twentieth-Century Morminism by Jan Shipps
Pages: 3-35
History
A Demographic Portrait of the Mormons, 1830-1980 by Dean L. May
Pages: 39-69
History
For the Strength of the Hills: Imagining Mormon Country by Edward A. Geary
Pages: 73-94
Criticism
The Church Moves Outside the United States: Some Observances from South America by F. LaMond Tullis
Pages: 149-169
History
Testimony and Technology: A Phase of the Modernization of Mormonism since 1950 by James B. Allen
Pages: 173-207
History






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