Description: From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged––socially, sexually, even racially––by the extravagances of belief they called “religion.” Make Yourselves Gods offers a counter-history of early Mormon theology and practice, tracking the Saints from their emergence as a dissident sect to their renunciation of polygamy at century’s end. Over these turbulent decades, Mormons would appear by turns as heretics, sex-radicals, refugees, anti-imperialists, colonizers, and, eventually, reluctant monogamists and enfranchised citizens. Reading Mormonism through a synthesis of religious history, political theology, native studies, and queer theory, Peter Coviello deftly crafts a new framework for imagining orthodoxy, citizenship, and the fate of the flesh in nineteenth-century America. What emerges is a story about the violence, wild beauty, and extravagant imaginative power of this era of Mormonism—an impassioned book with a keen interest in the racial history of sexuality and the unfinished business of American secularism.
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EAN: 9780226474335
UPC: 9780226474335
ISBN: 9780226474335
MPN: N/A
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Author: Peter Coviello
Book Title: Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished B
Item Height: 2 cm
Item Length: 22.6 cm
Item Weight: 0.46 kg
Item Width: 15.2 cm
Language: Eng
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
