The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Rather than strengthening their faith, the study of church history and scriptures by many members pushes them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, E. Marshall Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community and not out of a lack of dedication as prominently portrayed in religious and scholarly writing on apostasy.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780813592190
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-8135-9219-0
- Verlag: Rutgers University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 27.08.2018
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2018
- Produktform: Gebunden, Hardback
- Gewicht: 476 g
- Seiten: 254
- Format (B x H x T): 157 x 231 x 20 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt