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Sister Saints

Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy

By: Colleen McDannell

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Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy

By: Colleen McDannell

Sister Saints offers a history of modern Mormon women and argues that we are on the verge of an era in which women are likely to play a greater role in the Mormon church.

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0190221313

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The Spirit of Vatican II

A History of Catholic Reform in America

By: Colleen McDannell

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The Spirit of Vatican II

A History of Catholic Reform in America

By: Colleen McDannell

In 1962 a group of Catholic leaders traveled to Rome, charged by Pope John XXIII with the task of making the gospel of Christ relevant in a modern world. The Second Vatican Council transformed the lives of Catholics through sweeping reforms -- yet its effect on the daily lives of practicing Catholics has never been fully understood. In this illuminating study, religious historian Colleen McDannell presents new insight into Vatican II by shifting the framework of its analysis: from men to women, from urban to suburban, from theory to practice. Using the story of her Catholic mother's life as a narrative thread, McDannell presents in The Spirit of Vatican II a refreshingly positive portrayal of the state of modern Catholicism -- and a testament to the lasting effects of its liberalization.

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Basic Books

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046502338X

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9780465023387

Picturing Faith

Photography and the Great Depression

By: Colleen McDannell

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Picturing Faith

Photography and the Great Depression

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Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person. Sterling Professor and chair of the French Department of Yale University for more than four decades, Peyre was also the author of forty-four books, a brilliant speaker, and a mentor to two generations of students. He left enormous legacies as both teacher and scholar. Peyre also left a large and fascinating body of correspondence. This collection of his letters documents the era in which he lived. His lively letters also bear witness to the vast network of his friends and colleagues, including such major post-war literary figures as Robert Penn Warren, Andre Gide, and Andre Malraux.

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Yale University Press

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0300130074

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9780300130072

The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840--1900

By: Colleen McDannell

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The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840--1900

By: Colleen McDannell

... wonderfully imaginative and provocative in its interdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion and women's role within it."Â -- Choice "... an important addition to the fields of religious studies, women's history, and American cultural history." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion "... a complete and complex portrait of the Christian home." -- The Journal of American History

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Indiana University Press

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0253113563

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9780253113566

Heaven

A History, Second Edition

By: Colleen McDannell,Bernhard Lang

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Heaven

A History, Second Edition

By: Colleen McDannell,Bernhard Lang

In so doing, they shed new light on both the private and public dimensions of western culture. This second edition includes a substantial new preface relating the book to changing views of life after death in the new century."--BOOK JACKET.

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0300091079

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9780300091076

Sister Saints

Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy

By: Colleen McDannell

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Sister Saints

Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy

By: Colleen McDannell

The specter of polygamy haunts Mormonism. More than a century after the practice was banned, it casts a long shadow that obscures people's perceptions of the lives of today's Latter-day Saint women. Many still see them as second-class citizens, oppressed by the church and their husbands, and forced to stay home and take care of their many children. Sister Saints offers a history of modern Mormon women that takes aim at these stereotypes, showing that their stories are much more complex than previously thought. Women in the Utah territory received the right to vote in 1870-fifty years before the nineteenth amendment-only to have it taken away by the same federal legislation that forced the end of polygamy. Progressive and politically active, Mormon women had a profound impact on public life in the first few decades of the twentieth century. They then turned inward, creating a domestic ideal that shaped Mormon culture for generations. The women's movement of the 1970s sparked a new, vigorous-and hotly contested-Mormon feminism that divided Latter-day Saint women. By the twenty-first century more than half of all Mormons lived outside the United States, and what had once been a small community of pioneer women had grown into a diverse global sisterhood. Colleen McDannell argues that we are on the verge of an era in which women are likely to play a greater role in the Mormon church. Well-educated, outspoken, and deeply committed to their faith, these women are defying labels like liberal and conservative, traditional and modern. This deeply researched and eye-opening book ranges over more than a century of history to tell the stories of extraordinary-and ordinary-Latter-day Saint women with empathy and narrative flair.

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Oxford University Press

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019022133X

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9780190221331

Material Christianity

Religion and Popular Culture in America

By: Colleen McDannell

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Material Christianity

Religion and Popular Culture in America

By: Colleen McDannell

What can the religious objects used by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Americans tell us about American Christianity? What is the relationship between the beliefs of the faithful and the landscapes they build? This lavishly illustrated book investigates the history and meaning of Christian material culture in America over the last 150 years. Drawing on a rich array of historical sources and on in-depth interviews with Protestants, Catholics, and Mormons, Colleen McDannell examines the relationship between religion and mass consumption. She describes examples of nineteenth-century religious practice: Victorians burying their dead in cultivated cemetery parks; Protestants producing and displaying elaborate family Bibles; Catholics writing for special water from Lourdes reputed to have miraculous powers. And she looks at today's Christians: Mormons wearing sacred underclothing as a reminder of their religious promises, Catholics debating the design of tasteful churches, and Protestants manufacturing, marketing, and using a vast array of prints, clothing, figurines, jewelry, and toys that some label "Jesus junk" but that others see as a witness to their faith. McDannell claims that previous studies of American Christianity have overemphasized the written, cognitive, and ethical dimensions of religion, presenting faith as a disembodied system of beliefs. She shifts attention from the church and the theological seminary to the workplace, home, cemetery, and Sunday school, highlighting a different Christianity--one in which average Christians experience the divine, the nature of death, the power of healing, and the meaning of community through interacting with a created world of devotional images, environments, and objects.

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Yale University Press

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0300074999

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Material Christianity

Religion and Popular Culture in America

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Religion and Popular Culture in America

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Picturing Faith

Photography and the Great Depression

By: Colleen McDannell,Professor of History and Sterling M McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies Colleen McDannell

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Photography and the Great Depression

By: Colleen McDannell,Professor of History and Sterling M McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies Colleen McDannell

Describes how a group of photographers--including Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and Gordon Parks--were commissioned to capture in photographs the economic struggle and social dislocation of the Depression but who also captured a nation rich with a religious faith that crossed many religious barriers.

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0300104308

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9780300104301

The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840--1900

By: Colleen McDannell

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Indiana University Press

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The Spirit of Vatican II

A History of Catholic Reform in America

By: Colleen McDannell

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A History of Catholic Reform in America

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Material Christianity

Material Christianity

Material Christianity

Material Christianity

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The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840--1900

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