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- catalog abstract "How did the Latter-day Saints of the nineteenth century defend their unpopular plural marriage system? What kind of poetry was written on the Mormon frontier, and what social function did it perform? In a collection intended to convey the excitement and variety of Mormon history, the respected Mormon historian Davis Bitton considers these and other issues, showing how a religious group survives and maintains its sense of identity in the face of change and adaptation to new circumstances. Bitton not only presents the Mormon case for polygamy but places it in the context of nineteenth-century American political-social rhetoric. He narrates and analyzes the stormy case of B.H. Roberts, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives but was refused his seat because of polygamy. His exploration of the life of Brigham Young, Jr., relies on his subject's unpublished journals and finds this namesake of a famous father a fascinating example of the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. In the title essay, Bitton shows how Mormons have simplified and memorialized their history in monuments, parades, pageants, and print. He also considers whether Mormons, in ritualizing their own history, are doing what all Americans do.".
- catalog contributor b5730961.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. Early Mormon Lifestyles; or, The Saints as Human Beings -- 2. Polygamy Defended: One Side of a Nineteenth-Century Polemic -- 3. Zion's Rowdies: Growing Up on the Mormon Frontier -- 4. Bard of Utah's Dixie: Charles Lowell Walker and His Verse -- 5. Mormonism's Encounter with Spiritualism -- 6. "These Licentious Days": Dancing among the Mormons -- 7. The Ordeal of Brigham Young, Jr. -- 8. The Exclusion of B.H. Roberts from Congress -- 9. The Ritualization of Mormon History.".
- catalog description "Bitton not only presents the Mormon case for polygamy but places it in the context of nineteenth-century American political-social rhetoric. He narrates and analyzes the stormy case of B.H. Roberts, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives but was refused his seat because of polygamy. His exploration of the life of Brigham Young, Jr., relies on his subject's unpublished journals and finds this namesake of a famous father a fascinating example of the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. In the title essay, Bitton shows how Mormons have simplified and memorialized their history in monuments, parades, pageants, and print. He also considers whether Mormons, in ritualizing their own history, are doing what all Americans do.".
- catalog description "How did the Latter-day Saints of the nineteenth century defend their unpopular plural marriage system? What kind of poetry was written on the Mormon frontier, and what social function did it perform? In a collection intended to convey the excitement and variety of Mormon history, the respected Mormon historian Davis Bitton considers these and other issues, showing how a religious group survives and maintains its sense of identity in the face of change and adaptation to new circumstances.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 194 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0252020790".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "289.3 20".
- catalog subject "BX8611 .B537 1994".
- catalog subject "Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints History.".
- catalog subject "Mormon Church History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Early Mormon Lifestyles; or, The Saints as Human Beings -- 2. Polygamy Defended: One Side of a Nineteenth-Century Polemic -- 3. Zion's Rowdies: Growing Up on the Mormon Frontier -- 4. Bard of Utah's Dixie: Charles Lowell Walker and His Verse -- 5. Mormonism's Encounter with Spiritualism -- 6. "These Licentious Days": Dancing among the Mormons -- 7. The Ordeal of Brigham Young, Jr. -- 8. The Exclusion of B.H. Roberts from Congress -- 9. The Ritualization of Mormon History.".
- catalog title "The ritualization of Mormon history and other essays / Davis Bitton.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".