A Kingdom Transformed: Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church, New Edition - Softcover

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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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Gordon Shepherd is professor of sociology at the University of Central Arkansas. Gary Shepherd is professor emeritus of sociology at Oakland University in Michigan. The Shepherds (identical twins) have collaborated on a number of scholarly projects over many years, including six books, among them, with Lavina Fielding Andersen, Ordain Women and Resurgent Mormon Feminism: Voices for Equality in a Conservative Faith Tradition (in press).
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“A valuable addition, both substantively and methodologically, to the study of the transformations that have occurred in institutional Mormonism across time... It will be an easy and interesting read.”
Armand L. Mauss, author of Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic
 
 
 

“The book is already an essential work on Mormonism in the twentieth century; this new edition, expanding its reach into the twenty-first century, is quite welcome.”
Matthew Bowman, author of The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith

“Shepherd and Shepherd have produced a remarkable piece of scholarship in A Kingdom Transformed. By zooming out and examining aggregate trends in emphasis over time, they have provided a real contribution to the study of the development of the church, and one can hope that the authors or others picking up their legacy will continue to update this important study going into the future.”
Mormon Studies Review

 

“This book is surprisingly easy to read, virtually jargon-free, and provides a substantial overview of Mormonism’s core beliefs, practices, and history. For those interested, this book includes three appendices that detail this study’s statistical method and data. And as a theoretical approach to Mormonism, A Kingdom Transformed yields new insights and suggests new directions for those interested in Mormon studies.”—Nova Religio

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  • PublisherUniversity of Utah Press
  • Publication date2015
  • ISBN 10 1607814447
  • ISBN 13 9781607814443
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages432

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