Still, the small voice : narrative, personal revelation, and the Mormon folk tradition / Tom Mould.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mould, Tom, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Revelation--Latter Day Saint churches.

Revelation.

Latter Day Saints--Folklore.

Latter Day Saints.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (462 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Memorates-personal experience narratives of encounters with the supernatural-that recount individuals' personal revelations, primarily through the Holy Ghost, are a pervasive aspect of the communal religious experience of Mormons, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In accordance with current emphases in folklore studies on narrative and belief, Tom Mould uses ethnographic research and an emic approach that honors the belief systems under study to analyze how people within Mormon communities frame and interpret their experiences with the divine through th

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Broad Strokes of Tradition; Chapter 2: Sharing the Sacred; Chapter 3: Transforming Life into Story; Chapter 4: The Building Blocks of a Narrative Tradition; Chapter 5: Echoes of Culture; Chapter 6: A Record-Keeping People; Afterword; Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613333490

9781646423842

1646423844

9781283333498

128333349X

9780874218190

0874218195

OCLC:

763204745