ISBN: 9780252020711 - the angel and the beehive: the mormon struggle with assimilation (19 risultati)

Hard Cover. Condizione: NF. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. Clean turquoise boards and spine with shiny silver foil lettering on the spine. Book has a very faint bump at the rear corner of the head of the spine and very light bumping at the tips of the two lower outside corners. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 257 pages. Illustrated throughout with charts. Dust Jacket - has no discernable flaws - jacket is clean, bright, and sharp. A beautiful copy. Not terribly common.…

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Gebunden. Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnMauss book analyzes the last 40 years of Mormon history from a sociological perspective, calling on a wide array of sources in sociology and history to show that Mormons, who had come a long way from their position as outsiders .

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'The past few decades have witnessed an increasing reaction of the Mormons against their own successful assimilation,' Armand Mauss writes in The Angel and the Beehive, 'as though trying to recover some of the cultural tension and special identity associated with their earlier 'sect-like' history.' This retrenchment among Mormons is the main theme of Mauss's book, which analyzes the last forty years of Mormon history from a sociological perspective. At the official ecclesiastical level, Mauss finds, the retrenchment can be seen in the greatly increased centralization of bureaucratic control and in renewed emphases on obedience to modern prophets, on genealogy and vicarious temple work, and on traditional family life; retrenchment is also apparent in extensive formal religious indoctrination by full-time professionals and in increased sophistication and intensity of proselytizing. 280 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'The past few decades have witnessed an increasing reaction of the Mormons against their own successful assimilation,' Armand Mauss writes in The Angel and the Beehive, 'as though trying to recover some of the cultural tension and special identity associated with their earlier 'sect-like' history.' This retrenchment among Mormons is the main theme of Mauss's book, which analyzes the last forty years of Mormon history from a sociological perspective. At the official ecclesiastical level, Mauss finds, the retrenchment can be seen in the greatly increased centralization of bureaucratic control and in renewed emphases on obedience to modern prophets, on genealogy and vicarious temple work, and on traditional family life; retrenchment is also apparent in extensive formal religious indoctrination by full-time professionals and in increased sophistication and intensity of proselytizing.…