Disenchanted Lives Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism Among the Latter-Day Saints
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780813592190 |
Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
Imprint: | Rutgers University Press |
Pub date: | 27 Aug 2018 |
DEWEY: | 289.332 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | viii, 245 |
Weight: | 500g |
Height: | 158mm |
Width: | 235mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |