Disenchanted Lives : Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints PDF
by Brooks E. Marshall Brooks
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Rather than strengthening their faith, the study of church history and scriptures by many members pushes them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, E. Marshall Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community and not out of a lack of dedication as prominently portrayed in religious and scholarly writing on apostasy.
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- Pages:257 pages
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:27/08/2018
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- ISBN:9780813592220
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:257 pages
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:27/08/2018
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- ISBN:9780813592220