| Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons Contributor(s): Shipps, Jan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252073835 ISBN-13: 9780252073830 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $23.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: The preeminent non-Mormon interpreter of Mormonism combines her personal experiences among the Mormons with writing about this tradition she has been doing across the past thirty years. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon) - Religion | Christian Church - History |
| Dewey: 289.309 |
| LCCN: 00008491 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.66" W x 8.7" (1.16 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds - Theometrics - Academic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An intimate and eloquent history of America's fastest-growing religion from its leading 'outsider' scholar Infused with Jan Shipps's lively curiosity, scholarly rigor, and contagious fascination with a significant subculture, Sojourner in the Promised Land presents a distinctive parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time shares with the reader what it has been like to be on the outside of a culture that remains both familiar and strange. |