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Sojourner in the Promised Land
Jan Shipps
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Description for Sojourner in the Promised Land
Paperback. Presents a parallel history which focuses on the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of the author's encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the evolution of Mormonism with autobiography, it illuminates the Mormons and explains what it has been like to be on the outside of a culture that remains familiar and strange. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: HRCC99. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 526.
Infused with Jan Shipps’s lively curiosity, scholarly rigor, and contagious fascination with a significant subculture, Sojourner in the Promised Land presents a distinctive parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time shares with the reader what it has been like to be on the outside of a culture that remains both familiar and strange.
Infused with Jan Shipps’s lively curiosity, scholarly rigor, and contagious fascination with a significant subculture, Sojourner in the Promised Land presents a distinctive parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time shares with the reader what it has been like to be on the outside of a culture that remains both familiar and strange.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252073830
SKU
V9780252073830
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About Jan Shipps
Jan Shipps is the president of the American Society of Church History and professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and coeditor of The Journals of William E. McLellin.
Reviews for Sojourner in the Promised Land
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2002. “Shipps, the foremost scholar of Mormonism, describes her 40-year sojourn among the Latter-day Saints in this brilliant collection that is part intellectual autobiography and part religious history. . . . In chronicling the ‘diaspora’ that has made Mormonism a global religion, and in dissecting her own experiences as a non-Mormon commentator on these transformations, ... Read more