Americanist approaches to the Book of Mormon / edited by Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fenton, Elizabeth A., 1978- editor.

Hickman, Jared, editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book of Mormon--Criticism, interpretation, etc--United States.

Book of Mormon.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 443 pages)

polychrome

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: Learning to Read With The Book of Mormon; PART I PLATES AND PRINT; 1. Books Buried in the Earth: The Book of Mormon, Revelation, and the Humic Foundations of the Nation; 2. The Ghost and the Machine: Plates and Paratext in The Book of Mormon; 3. Orson Pratt's Enduring Influence on The Book of Mormon; PART II SCRIPTURE AND SECULARITY; 4. The Book of Mormon and the Bible; 5. An American Book of Chronicles: Pseudo-​Biblicism and the Cultural Origins of The Book of Mormon

6. "To Read the Round of Eternity": Speech, Text, and Scripture in The Book of Mormon7. "The Writing of the Fruit of Thy Loins": Reading, Writing, and Prophecy in The Book of Mormon; 8. Nephite Secularization; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon; PART III INDIGENEITY AND IMPERIALISM; 9. Kinship, The Book of Mormon, and Modern Revelation; 10. How the Mormons Became White: Scripture, Sex, Sovereignty; 11. Nephites and Israelites: The Book of Mormon and the Hebraic Indian Theory; 12. "Great Cause to Mourn": The Complexity of The Book of Mormon's Presentation of Gender and Race

13. "We're Going to Take Our Land Back Over": Indigenous Positionality, the Ethnography of Reading, and The Book of MormonPART IV GENRE AND GENERATION; 14. The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of Covenant; 15. "Arise From the Dust, My Sons, and Be Men": Masculinity in The Book of Mormon; 16. "I Lead the Way, Like Columbus": Joseph Smith, Genocide, and Revelatory Ambiguity; 17. Book of Mormon Poetry; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 27, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Americanist approaches to the Book of Mormon

ISBN:

9780190221959

019022195X

0190221941

9780190221942

Publisher Number:

40029363435

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Restricted for use by site license.