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American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940 (Paperback)
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American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940 (Paperback)
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In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age
Latter-daySaints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual
pilgrimage to the nation'selite universities, including Harvard,
Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, andStanford. Thomas W. Simpson
chronicles the academic migration of hundredsof LDS students from
the 1860s through the late 1930s, when churchauthority J. Reuben
Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia UniversityLaw School,
gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search
forintellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set
conservative parametersthat in large part came to characterize
Mormon intellectual life.At the outset, Mormon women and men were
purposefully dispatched tosuch universities to "gather the world's
knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawingon unpublished diaries, among
other materials, shows how LDS studentscommonly described American
universities as egalitarian spaces that fostereda personally
transformative sense of freedom to explore
provisionalreconciliations of Mormon and American identities and
religious and scientificperspectives. On campus, Simpson argues,
Mormon separatism diedand a new, modern Mormonism was born: a
Mormonism at home in theUnited States but at odds with itself.
Fierce battles among Mormon scholarsand church leaders ensued over
scientific thought, progressivism, and thehistoricity of
Mormonism's sacred past. The scars and controversy,
Simpsonconcludes, linger.
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