TY - BOOK AU - Jensen,Heather Belnap AU - Cropper,Corry AU - Lee,Daryl TI - Marianne meets the Mormons: representations of Mormonism in nineteenth-century France SN - 9780252053696 AV - BX8617.F8 J46 2022 U1 - 289.3/4 23/eng/20220623 PY - 2022///] CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints KW - France KW - Public opinion KW - History KW - 19th century KW - fast KW - Latter Day Saints KW - Latter Day Saint churches KW - Latter Day Saints in literature KW - Religion and culture KW - Mormons KW - Opinion publique KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - Église mormone KW - Religion et culture KW - RELIGION / General KW - bisacsh KW - Mormon Church KW - Mormons in literature KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; "Ils ont lâché le fou!" : unleashing the Mormon jester -- "La loi nouvelle" : Mormonism and the social question in France -- Mormonism, masculinity, and the woman question in Second Empire France -- Between man and God : Mormons, spiritualism, and the occult -- From page to stage : Mormonism and the woman question in the early Third Republic -- "Ces mœurs sont bien les nôtres!" : Mormons, marriage, and the divorce debate -- Exotic Mormons and the French colonial project -- "La fin du mormonisme" N2 - "In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonism a common trope in French journalism, literature, politics, and popular culture. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee illuminate the creation and use of Latter-day Saint stereotypes in France from the 1830s to 1914. Though sometimes ridiculed, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just as often played an important role in satire and criticism that exposed, critiqued, and parodied French society. France's extreme, imagined Mormonism became a malleable tool in debates over issues as diverse as family, Spiritualism, and church-state relations while providing artists and others with a medium for working through the possibilities and impossibilities of their own fragmented nation. Surprising and innovative, Marianne Meets the Mormons looks at how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints influenced generations of French public and intellectual life"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3346877 ER -