Out of Obscurity: Mormonism Since 1945

358 Pages·2016·1.063 MB·English

by  Patrick Q. Mason, John G. Turner

Out of Obscurity

Out of Obscurity
Mormonism since 1945
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Edited by
Patrick Q. MasOn and
JOhn G. turner
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Names: Mason, Patrick Q., editor. | Turner, John G., editor.
Title: Out of obscurity : Mormonism since 1945 / edited by Patrick Q. Mason
and John G. Turner.
Description: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016] | ?2016 | Includes index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-History-20th
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Contents
Contributor Biographies vii
Introduction 3
Patrick Q. Mason
Part I: Internationalization
1. International Legal Experience and the Mormon Theology
of the State, 1945–2012 17
nathan B. oMan
2. The Internationalization of Mormonism: Indications from India 37
taunalyn F. rutherFord
Part II: Political Culture
3. Ezra Taft Benson and Modern (Book of) Mormon Conservatism 63
Patrick Q. Mason
4. The Romney Lens: A Bifocal Approach to Mormonism,
American Religion, and Politics in the Past Half-Century 81
J. B. haws
5. “The Puritan Ethic on High”: LDS Media and the
Mormon Embrace of Free Enterprise in the Twentieth Century 104
JaMes dennis lorusso
6. The Pageantry of Protest in Temple Square 123
Max Perry Mueller
7. Mormons and Same-Sex Marriage: From ERA to Prop 8 144
neil J. young
vi Contents
Part III: Gender
8. Mahana, You Naked!: Modesty, Sexuality, and Race in the
Mormon Pacific 173
aManda hendrix-koMoto
9. Housework: The Problem That Does Have a Name 198
kate holBrook
10. Saying Goodbye to the Final Say: The Softening and Reimagining
of Mormon Male Headship Ideologies 214
caroline kline
11. Blogging the Boundaries: Mormon Mommy Blogs and the
Construction of Mormon Identity 234
kristine haglund
Part Iv: Religious Culture
12. The Evangelical Countercult Movement and Mormon
Conservatism 259
Matthew BowMan
13. Holding on to the “Chosen Generation”: The Mormon Battle
for Youth in the Late 1960s and Early 1970s 278
reBecca de schweinitz
14. Everyone Can Be a Pioneer: The Sesquicentennial Celebrations
of Mormon Arrival in the Salt Lake Valley 302
sara M. Patterson
15. “All the Truth Does Not Always Need to Be Told”: The
LDS Church, Mormon History, and Religious Authority 318
John g. turner
Index 341
Contributor Biographies
Matthew Bowman is associate professor of history at Henderson State Uni-
versity. He is the author of The Mormon People: The Making of an American
Faith (2012) and The Urban Pulpit: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evan-
gelicalism (2014).
Rebecca de Schweinitz is associate professor of history at Brigham Young
University. She received her PhD from the University of Virginia and has
been a fellow at Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center. A founding member of the
Society for the History of Children and Youth, she is the author of If We Could
Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial
Equality (2009).
Kristine Haglund holds degrees in German studies and German literature
from Harvard and the University of Michigan. Her research interests include
gender and religion, Mormon women’s and children’s history, and religious
publications in new media. She is the former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of
Mormon Thought.
J. B. Haws is assistant professor of church history at Brigham Young University
and is the author of The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of
Public Perception (2013). He has a PhD in American history from the University
of Utah, and he and his wife, Laura, live with their four children in Provo, Utah.
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto is assistant professor in the History and Philosophy
Department at Montana State University. She has written articles on the inter-
sections of colonialism, gender, and race in Mormon missionary work. She
is currently revising her dissertation, “Imperial Zions: Mormons, Polygamy,
and the Politics of Domesticity in the Nineteenth Century,” into a book
manuscript.
Kate Holbrook holds a PhD in religious studies from Boston University and is
a specialist in women’s history at the LDS Church History Department. She is
coeditor of The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day
Saint Women’s History (2016) and Women and Mormonism: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives (2016).
viii Contributor Biographies
Caroline Kline is a PhD candidate in religion at Claremont Graduate
University. Her areas of interest are Mormon women, gender theory, and the-
ology. She is the coeditor of Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays from the
Claremont Oral History Collection (2013) and has been published in the journal
Feminist Theology.
James Dennis LoRusso is a research fellow in the Center for the Study of
Religion at Princeton University. He completed his PhD in American reli-
gious cultures at Emory University. His research examines how governments,
markets, businesses, and workplaces are entangled with the history of reli-
gion in the United States.
Patrick Q. Mason is Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and associ-
ate professor of American religious history at Claremont Graduate University.
He is the author of The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the
Postbellum South (2011), and editor of Directions for Mormon Studies in the 21st
Century (2016).
Max Perry Mueller is an assistant professor of American religion in the
Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska–
Lincoln. He holds a PhD in the study of religion from Harvard University. He
is also cofounder and contributing editor of Religion & Politics, the online
journal of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington
University in St. Louis.
Nathan B. Oman is Tazewell Taylor Research Professor at William and Mary
Law School. He earned his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he
served on the Articles Committee of the Harvard Law Review and as an editor
of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. After law school, he clerked for
the Honorable Morris Shepard Arnold of the US Court of Appeals for the
Eighth Circuit and worked as a litigation associate in the Washington, DC
office of Sidley Austin, LLP.
Sara M. Patterson teaches courses in theological studies, history of
Christianity, and religion in the Americas at Hanover College. Patterson’s
research investigates the intersections of religious experience, place, and
community. She is coeditor, with Fay Botham, of Race, Religion, Region:
Landscapes of Encounter in the American West (2005). More recently, she is
the author of Middle of Nowhere: Religion, Art, and Pop Culture at Salvation
Mountain (2016).
Taunalyn F. Rutherford is a PhD candidate in religion at Claremont Graduate
University, where she was the recipient of the Robert L. Millet Fellowship in
Contributor Biographies ix
Mormon Studies as well as the CGU-Tanner Center Summer Dissertation
Fellowship. She is currently an adjunct instructor in religious education at
Brigham Young University.
John G. Turner teaches at George Mason University. He is the author most
recently of The Mormon Jesus: A Biography (2016) and Brigham Young: Pioneer
Prophet (2012).
Neil J. Young is an independent historian and the author of We Gather
Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics (2016). He
has taught at Princeton University and Columbia University. He is cohost of
the history podcast Past Present.