By Lee Trepanier,Lynita K. Newswander

ISBN-10: 1602583277

ISBN-13: 9781602583276

From the politics of Glenn Beck to fact television's Big Love and the hit Broadway exhibit The ebook of Mormon, Mormons became a recognizable staple of mainstream pop culture. And whereas such a lot american citizens are good conscious of the life of Mormonism—and many of the usually exaggerated myths approximately Mormonism—the religion's public effect has been sorely understudied.

Lee Trepanier and Lynita okay. Newswander stream past clichéd and stereotypical portrayals of Mormonism to unpack the numerous and infrequently miraculous roles Mormons have performed within the development of contemporary the US. relocating from pop culture to politics to the Mormon impression in social controversies, LDS within the USA finds Mormonism to be quintessentially American—both firmly rooted in American culture and unfastened to have interaction within the public square.

Trepanier and Newswander study the intersection of the strain among the nation's occasionally strange realizing of Mormon trust and the suspicious popularity of the main renowned Mormons into the yankee public identification. Readers are continually challenged to desert well known perceptions with a purpose to embody extra totally the interesting value of this American religion.

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