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In 1776, two Mexican Franciscans trekked into what is now the state of Utah. While they said the rosary and offered litanies to the saints, they did not linger in what was to them unknown territory. It would take almost 100 years for the first parish church of St. Mary Magdalene to be built in 1871 and a Catholic community established. The small number of Catholics maintained and cultivated their religion in a territory dominated by the Latter...

Including a substantial new Preface on changing views of life after death in the new century, this copiously illustrated book describes the ways in which believers--from biblical authors to present-day religious thinkers--have pictured Heaven, not just in doctrine but also in poetry, art, literature, and popular culture.

Sister Saints offers a sweeping history of modern Mormon women-a story that is much more complex than stereotypes suggest. Colleen McDannell shows, with keen insight and narrative flair, that Mormon women have long been critically important in creating, maintaining, and transforming their faith.

At the movies, catholicism is the American religion. Eleven prominent scholars explore how catholic characteres, spaces and rituals are represented in film. With chapters on movies ranging from Going My Way to Dogma, contributors provide close readings that illuminate critical themes and images as they set the films their historical context.

At the movies, catholicism is the American religion. Eleven prominent scholars explore how catholic characteres, sapces and rituals are represented in film. With chapters on movies ranging from Going My Way to Dogma, contributors provide close readings that illuminate critical themes and images as they set the films their historical context.

What can the religious objects used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans tell us about American Christianity? What is the relationship between the beliefs of the faithful and the landscapes they build? This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the last 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics,...

..". wonderfully imaginative and provocative in itsinterdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion andwomen's role within it." -- Choice..". an importantaddition to the fields of religious studies, women's history, and American culturalhistory." -- Journal of the American Academy ofReligion..". a complete and complex portrait of theChristian home." -- The Journal of American History

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