Author:
Patterson, Sara M., 1974- author.
ImprintNew York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2020]
Imprint2020
Descriptionxvi, 280 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note:This is the place! creating a center place in the Salt Lake Valley -- A lineal temple : mapping and marking the Mormon Trail -- Eyes westward : the Smithification of the American west -- "The price we paid" : a theology of suffering and place at Martin's Cove -- The sweetheart of the Riverton Stake : martyrdom and rescue in the lives of the saints -- Sesquicentennial spectacular! : physicalizing the pioneer story -- Traveling Zions : pilgrimage in modern Mormonism -- Anxious landscapes : expressing regret in an age of apologies.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail argues that as the Latter-day Saint community globalized in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, its relationship to space transformed. Initially, nineteenth-century Mormons believed that they must literally gather together in their new Salt Lake Zion- their center place. They believed that Zion was a place you could point to on a map, a place you should dwell in to live a righteous life. Later Mormons had to reinterpret these central theological principles as their community spread around the globe. They began to make such claims as "We should spiritually gather together" and "Zion is wherever the people of God are." But to say that they simply spiritualized concepts that had once been understood literally is only one piece of the puzzle. Contemporary Mormons still want to touch and to feel these principles. And so they mark and claim the landscapes of the American West with versions of their history carved in stone. They develop rituals that allow them not only to learn the history of the nineteenth-century journey west, but to engage it with all of their senses. Pioneers in the Attic examines the ways that contemporary Mormons first spiritualized and then reliteralized and concretized several central theological concepts in order to emphasize and make meaningful a center place even as they become an increasingly place-less community." Provided by publisher.
