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Pioneers in the Attic (Hardcover)
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Pioneers in the Attic (Hardcover)
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Why do thousands of Mormons devote their summer vacations to
following the Mormon Trail? Why does the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Day Saints spend millions of dollars to build monuments
and Visitor Centers that believers can visit to experience the
history of their nineteenth-century predecessors who fled westward
in search of their promised land? Why do so many Mormon teenagers
dress up in Little-House-on-the-Prairie-style garb and push
handcarts over the highest local hills they can find? And what
exactly is a "traveling Zion"? In Pioneers in the Attic, Sara
Patterson analyzes how and why Mormons are engaging their
nineteenth-century past in the modern era, arguing that as the LDS
community globalized in the late twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries, its relationship to space was transformed. Following
their exodus to Utah, nineteenth-century Mormons believed that they
must gather together in Salt Lake Zion - their new 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, 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, 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 reveals
how modern-day Mormons have created a sense of community and felt
religion through the memorialization of early Mormon pioneers of
the American West, immortalizing a narrative of shared identity
through an emphasis on place and collective memory.
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