Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression

Eliason, Eric A.

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“…It is an official state holiday in Utah on the occasion of the entrance of Brigham Young and his Mormon pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847. In modern day practice, the holiday observed inside and outside of Utah includes parades (involving the re-enactment of entering the region by handcart), rodeos, historical pageants, and fireworks displays aligning the region as the heart of the West (Eliason 1997;Olsen 1996).…”

Section: Folklore As a Force In The Development Of City State Regiomentioning

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The Challenge of American Folklore to the Humanities

Bronner¹

2018

Humanities

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American Folklore consists of traditional knowledge and cultural practices engaged by inhabitants of the United States below Canada and above Mexico. American folklorists were influenced by nineteenth-century European humanistic scholarship that identified in traditional stories, songs, and speech among lower class peasants an artistic quality and claim to cultural nationalism. The United States, however, appeared to lack a peasant class and shared racial and ethnic stock associated in European perceptions with the production of folklore. The United States was a relatively young nation, compared to the ancient legacies of European kingdoms, and geographically the country's boundaries had moved since its inception to include an assortment of landscapes and peoples. Popularly, folklore in the United States is rhetorically used to refer to the veracity, and significance, of cultural knowledge in an uncertain, rapidly changing, individualistic society. It frequently refers to the expressions of this knowledge in story, song, speech, custom, and craft as meaningful for what it conveys and enacts about tradition in a future-oriented country. The essay provides the argument that folklore studies in the United States challenge Euro-centered humanistic legacies by emphasizing patterns associated with the American experience that are (1) democratic, (2) vernacular, and (3) incipient.

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Section: Folklore As a Force In The Development Of City State Regiomentioning

confidence: 99%

The Challenge of American Folklore to the Humanities

Bronner¹

2018

Humanities

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“…The absolute beginning and end numbers can be accounted for by a growth rate of 40 percent per decade, a rate that is consistent with growth rates of modem religious movements such as the Unification Church and the Mormons. The fact that the papyrologist Roger Bagnall (1982,1987) discovered similar Christian growth rates in third-century Egypt (cf. Hegedus 1998 on a similar study on the expansion of the Isis cult) helps Stark to generalize from growth patterns of modem movements to pre-Constantinian Christianity as a whole.…”

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“…It is the pluralistic, experimental picture of movements in the process of social formation and mythic rationalization that interests me. It calls for giving attention to the ways in which myths and rituals create what Pierre Bourdieu calls a habirus, an imaginary world where the values and notions that sustain a society are lodged (1982). Close attention to these early Christian texts reveals many "developments" that are best explained as spiral-like feedback patterns of social formation and mythological elaboration in which trying out new ideas, honing social visions, experimenta-tion with this or that social model at hand, social experience and accidental encounters, justifications without and rationalizations within, as well as changing boundaries, codes, and attitudes toward the rest of the social and cultural worlds of context, were all at work all the time.…”

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1999

Religious Studies Review

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Book reviewed in this article: A SYMPOSIUM ON RODNEY STARK'S THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY: THE RISE OF CHRISTIANITY: A SOCIOLOGIST RECONSIDERS HISTORY By Rodney Stark WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FROM CULTURE WARS TO COMMON GROUND: RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN FAMILY DEBATE By Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller‐McLemore, Pamela D. Couture, K. Brynolf Lyon, and Robert M. Franklin WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FAMILIES IN ANCIENT ISRAEL By Leo G. Perdue, Joseph Blenkinsopp, John J. Collins, and Carol Meyers WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FAMILIES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WORLD: HOUSEHOLDS AND HOUSE CHURCHES By Carolyn Osiek and David L. Balch WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FAITH TRADITIONS AND THE FAMILY Edited by Phyllis D. Airhart and Margaret Lamberts Bendroth WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: COVENANTS AND COMMITMENTS: FAITH, FAMILY, AND ECONOMIC LIFE By Max L. Stackhouse WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: FOR THE LOVE OF CHILDREN: GENETIC TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF THE FAMILY By Ted Peters WHO'S RIGHT IN THE FAMILY VALUES DEBATE? A REVIEW OF THE BOOKS FROM THE RELIGION, CULTURE, AND FAMILY PROJECT: RELIGION, FEMINISM, AND THE FAMILY Edited by Anne Carr and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: FAITH AND ORDER: THE RECONCDLIATION OF LAW AND RELIGION By Harold J. Berman LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: BOUNDARIES DIMLY PERCEIVED: LAW, RELIGION, EDUCATION, AND THE COMMON GOOD By Christopher F. Mooney, S. J. LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: FOREORDAINED FAILURE: THE QUEST FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM By Steven D. Smith LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: PLEASE DON'T WISH ME A MERRY CHRISTMAS: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE By Stephen M. Feldman LAW AND RELIGION IN THE 1990s: PAYING THE WORDS EXTRA: RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES By Winnifred Fallers Sullivan INTERPRETING JUDAISM IN A POSTMODERN AGE Edited by Steven Kepnes MORMON STUDIES: MORMONS AND THE BIBLE: THE PLACE OF THE LATTER‐DAY SAINTS IN AMERICAN RELIGION By Philip L. Barlow MORMON STUDIES: THE JOURNALS OF WDLLIAM E. McLELLIN, 1831–1836 Edited by Jan B. Shipps and John W. Welch MORMON STUDIES: THE REFINER'S FIRE: THE MAKING OF MORMON COSMOLOGY, 1644–1844 By John L. Brooke MORMON STUDIES: THE VIPER ON THE HEARTH: MORMONS, MYTHS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF HERESY By Terryl L. Givens MORMON STUDIES: THE MORMON HIERARCHY: EXTENSIONS OF POWER By D. Michael Quinn MORMON STUDIES: SAME‐SEX DYNAMICS AMONG NINETEENTH‐CENTURY AMERICANS: A MORMON EXAMPLE By D. Michael Quinn MORMON STUDIES: THE MYSTERIES OF GODLINESS: A HIST...

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Replication as Religious Practice, Temporality as Religious Problem

Bielo¹

2016

History and Anthropology

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Pioneers and Recapitulation in Mormon Popular Historical Expression

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The Challenge of American Folklore to the Humanities

The Challenge of American Folklore to the Humanities

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