ISBN10: 022647433X, ISBN13: 9780226474335, [publisher: University of Chicago Press] Softcover 2019. Paperback. . . . . .
[Galway, GY, Ireland] [Publication Year: 2019]

Paperback / softback. New. 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. ISBN 022647433x 9780226474335 [GB]

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[Olney, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2019]

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[Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2019]

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