Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 868 pages)
ISBN:
9783030526160
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Foundations of a New Religious Tradition -- Chapter 1: Global Mormonism: A Historical Overview -- The Gathering, 1830-1887 -- Promised Lands in the Pacific, 1850-1898 -- Polygamist Colonies in Mexico and Canada, 1884-1900 -- Weakening of the Gathering, 1887-1950 -- Stay Where You Are Planted, 1945-1977 -- Expansion, Contraction, Re-figuring, 1978-2020 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Evolving Ecclesiastical Organization of an International Lay Church -- Genesis -- A Book of Mormon Church -- Sidney Rigdon and the Expansion of Ecclesiology -- Governance -- Illinois -- Exodus -- The Rise of the Auxiliary Organizations -- The Beginning of Canon Law -- Reinvention -- Regional Expansion -- International Expansion -- David O. McKay and the Impetus for Global Change -- Translating Cultures -- Contraction -- Rebranding -- Declining Missionary Success -- Faith Crisis -- Millennials -- LGBTQ -- Racism -- Women -- Sexual Abuse -- Gerontocracy -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: The Gathering of Scattered Israel: The Missionary Enterprise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Theology of Latter-day Saint Mission -- Latter-day Saint Mission in Historical Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Beginnings -- The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Constancy Amid Change -- Changing Demographics Within the LDS Missionary Force -- The LDS Missionary Force and Church Growth Since World War II -- Geographic Expansion of an International Church -- Addendum Note -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Geographical Diffusion and Growth Patterns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Since World War II -- Introduction -- Summary Overview of Diffusion Studies -- Religious Diffusion Conceptual Framework -- Data Sources.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030526153
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030526153
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mormonen
Author information:
Cragun, Ryan T.
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