Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secula...
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Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secula.... Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism, Hardcover by Coviello, Peter, ISBN 022647416X, ISBN-13 9780226474168, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
