Disenchanted Lives (eBook)

Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints

E. Marshall Brooks (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
254 Seiten
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9220-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• ISBN-10: 0-8135-9220-8 / 0813592208
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-9220-6 / 9780813592206