TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simpson,Thomas Wendell
TI  - American universities and the birth of modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
SN  - 9781469628653
AV  - BX8611 .S53 2016
U1  - 289.3/73 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Latter Day Saints
KW  - Education (Higher)
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Mormons
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Denominations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Higher
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Mormonism reframed -- Brigham Young's romance with American higher education, 1870-1877 -- The death of Mormon separatism in American universities, 1877-1896 -- Evolution and its discontents, 1896-1920 -- Anti-intellectualism rejected and reborn, 1920-1940 -- Conclusion: Mormonism uncharted
N2  - "The book situates American universities as a unique egalitarian cultural and institutional space for Mormons in nineteenth-century American society. They were places where Mormons could experience a personally transformative sense of freedom and dignity, equip themselves for taking advantageous paths in American society, and explore provisional reconciliations of religious and scientific perspectives. Contributing to an understanding of the evolution of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints in the context of American history, Simpson chronicles a Mormon intellectual pilgrimage made by hundreds of youth to the elite universities of the United States"--
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