Claudia L. Bushman
Författare till Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America
Om författaren
Claudia L. Bushman is professor of American studies at Columbia University
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Verk av Claudia L. Bushman
"A Good Poor Man's Wife": Being a Chronicle of Harriet Hanson Robinson and Her Family in Nineteenth-Century New England (1709) 27 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 6, Number 2, (Summer 1971) (1971) — Bidragsgivare; Guest editor — 2 exemplar
Mormon Domestic Life In The 1870S: Leonard J Arrington Mormon History Lecture Series #5 (Arrington Lecture Series) (2000) 1 exemplar
Proceedings of the Assembly of the Lower Counties on Delaware, 1770-1776, of the Constitutional Convention of 1776, and… (1986) 1 exemplar
Latter-day Saint Women in the Twentieth Century: Summer Fellows' Papers 2003 (2004) — Inledning — 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Nearly Everything Imaginable: The Everyday Life of Utah's Mormon Pioneers (Studies in Latter-Day Saint History) (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 22 exemplar
To Be Learned is Good: Essays on Faith and Scholarship in Honor of Richard Lyman Bushman (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Why I Stay: The Challenges of Discipleship for Contemporary Mormons (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Saints Well Seasoned: Musings on How Food Nourishes Us-- Body, Heart, and Soul (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
Pansy's History: The Autobiography of Margaret E. P. Gordon, 1866-1966 (Life Writings of Frontier Women) (2011) — Redaktör — 4 exemplar
Candy Canes and Christmastime: Enhancing the Holidays in the Real World (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 11, Number 3, Autumn 1978 (1978) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 20, Number 2, Summer 1987 (1987) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 33, Number 4 (Winter 2000) (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 11, Number 1 (Spring 1978) (1978) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume 2, Number 3 (Autumn, 1967) (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 53, Number 4 (Winter 2020) (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 49, Number 2 (Summer 2016) (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 14, Number 4 (Winter 1981) (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 15, Number 3 (Autumn 1982) (1982) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 22, Number 2 (Summer 1989) (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 41, Number 1 (Spring 2008) (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 42, Number 4 (Winter 2009) (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 4, Number 3 (Autumn 1969) (1969) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 1967) (1967) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 36, Number 3 (Fall 2003) (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 7, Number 4 (Winter 1972) (1972) — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Bushman, Claudia Lauper
- Födelsedag
- 1934
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Bostadsorter
- Elkton, Maryland, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Manhattan, New York, USA - Utbildning
- Brigham Young University
Wellesley College
Boston University (PhD|American Studies) - Yrken
- university professor
historian
scholar of American Studies - Relationer
- Bushman, Richard L. (spouse)
- Organisationer
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Delaware Heritage Commission (executive director)
University of Delaware
Claremont Graduate University
Exponent II (founding editor)
Columbia University (visa alla 7)
Huntington Library
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- 15
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- 53
- Medlemmar
- 185
- Popularitet
- #117,260
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- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 28
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- 1
That is definitely the issue with this short, readable history. It is a history of Mormonism told very much from the Mormon standpoint. How did Mormonism come to be? It of course began with the... proclamations... of Joseph Smith. The questions about those gives us a good perspective on the book. The foremost biographer of Smith, Fawn M. Brodie, who was herself a Mormon, came to the agonized conclusion that Smith was engaged in a get-rich scheme. Alternately, Smith's revelations began when he was about the age when schizophrenics start to experience the symptoms of their horrid illness. Or, of course, Smith could have been the recipient of a genuine revelation.
This matter is not really discussed. Revelation is basically assumed. For readers who are members of the Saints, this will obviously be desirable. For readers who are not, it leaves glaring holes. And this tendency continues. For a book whose primary author is a woman, it seems surprisingly sympathetic to polygamy: it was doctrine, so it must have been right.
Also, it is worth noting that, when Joseph Smith died, Mormonism fractured. Brigham Young gathered by far the largest faction of the denomination, and took it to Utah -- but the other various sects are all Mormons, they just aren't "the" Mormons. But all we read is a brief mention of the Reorganized Church of the Latter-Day Saints. It is not wrong, but it is parochial and not what I would consider a complete history.
I would also say that the interesting part of the sect's history is the time from when Smith had his revelation until they abandoned polygamy in the 1890s. After that, although the Mormons were still extremely schismatic in theology, they were basically just another separatist sect in an America full of peculiar sects, large and small. But the book still devotes half its length to this relatively dull period.
Bottom line: If you are a Mormon, this is probably a good brief history. But if you are not, it raises far more questions than it answers, and it leaves out a lot of the good stuff to focus on the routine. A bad book? Not really. But one with a viewpoint that I find neither particularly interesting nor particularly useful.… (mer)