In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the rise and development
of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New
York, through Brigham Young's founding of the Territory of Deseret
on the shores of Great Salt Lake, to the spread of the Latter-Day
Saints around the globe. Throughout the last century and a half,
Givens notes, distinctive traditions have emerged among the
Latter-Day Saints, shaped by dynamic tensions-or paradoxes-that
give Mormon cultural expression much of its vitality. Here is a
religion shaped by a rigid authoritarian hierarchy and radical
individualism; by prophetic certainty and a celebration of learning
and intellectual investigation; by existence in exile and a
yearning for integration and acceptance by the larger world. Givens
divides Mormon history into two periods, separated by the
renunciation of polygamy in 1890. In each, he explores the life of
the mind, the emphasis on education, the importance of architecture
and urban planning (so apparent in Salt Lake City and Mormon
temples around the world), and Mormon accomplishments in music and
dance, theater, film, literature, and the visual arts. He situates
such cultural practices in the context of the society of the larger
nation and, in more recent years, the world. Today, he observes,
only fourteen percent of Mormon believers live in the United
States. Mormonism has never been more prominent in public life. But
there is a rich inner life beneath the public surface, one deftly
captured in this sympathetic, nuanced account by a leading
authority on Mormon history and thought.
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