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A Kingdom Transformed: Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church
Contributor(s): Shepherd, Gordon (Author), Shepherd, Gary (Author)

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ISBN: 1607814447     ISBN-13: 9781607814443
Publisher: University of Utah Press
OUR PRICE: $38.00  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: January 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon)
Dewey: 289.332
LCCN: 2015017703
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.25 lbs) 432 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Christian
- Religious Orientation - Mormonism/Lds
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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To survive in an often disapproving external social world, the LDS Church has made many adaptive changes in belief, practice, and organization over time. Gordon and Gary Shepherd identify and elucidate these changes through statistical analysis of the rhetoric from General Conference proceedings in their book. The first edition of A Kingdom Transformed, published in 1984, covered the years 1830 to 1979. This new edition revises this earlier work and adds to it by examining the subsequent thirty years of LDS church rhetoric revealing what new trends have emerged and what old ones have continued. It retains the summary and analysis of data from the first 150 years of LDS Church history, but every chapter, including the narrative history of early Mormonism, has been thoroughly rewritten with updated theoretical and empirical support from contemporary research sources.

The first edition showed how early twentieth century LDS leaders were fairly liberal in mainstreaming church doctrines and social teaching, but by mid-twentieth century, as the church became more stable, accepted, and successful, church authorities reversed several earlier modifications and began emphasizing a stricter, more conservative theology that coincided with an increasingly conservative political orientation. The new book adds current issues of concern, such as the role of women in the church and international growth versus member retention. It also introduces a new conceptual framework for interpreting findings.

 
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