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The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith (2012)

por Matthew Bowman

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With Mormonism on the verge of an unprecedented cultural and political breakthrough, an eminent scholar of American evangelicalism explores the history and reflects on the future of this native-born American faith and its connection to the life of the nation. In 1830, a young seer named Joseph Smith began organizing adherents into a new religious community that would come to be called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (known informally as the Mormons). Here, religious historian Matthew Bowman presents more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church's origin and development, explains how Mormonism came to be one of the fastest-growing religions in the world by the turn of the 21st century, and sets the scene for a 2012 presidential election that has the potential to mark a major turning point in the way this faith is perceived by the wider American public--and internationally.--From publisher description.… (mais)
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Interesting book about the history of the Mormon people. ( )
  MrDickie | May 8, 2022 |
This book tells the 180-year history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from its founding until present time. This book focuses on the development of Latter-day Saint teachings and practices through each stage of the church's history. Each era is shown in contrast, and often in reaction to, preceding generations in the church, as well as the circumstances that shaped the movement.

As a lifelong Latter-day Saint and Mormon history hobbyist, I didn't expect to be surprised by anything in this book, since it was a broad overview of the church over a long period of time. But I had heard that this book was special, from a skilled writer and up-and-coming scholar who knew how to write for insiders and outsiders, drawing from all the best new research, marketed by a national publisher for the "Mormon Moment" during Romney's presidential race.

Among its strengths, the book constructs a cohesive, complete story of the institution and the culture of its people, and its influence from and on the story of America. It convincingly engages with church controversies without trivializing the whole religious movement. It doesn't shy away from hard topics. Bowman's writing is very readable, even though he focuses on the history of thought, instead of popular culture and so many individual narratives. There were many points where I thought Bowman could delve into rationalizations and explain extra background, but that wasn't his goal. He needed to cover the big story without litigating every detail and putting everyone to sleep.

I was most impressed with the chapters on the early 20th century, covering the intellectual leaders during the Progressive Era through to the 1930s and 1940s, leading to the conservative retrenchment of the 1950s and 1960s. I would guess LDS history usually focuses 80% on the first 50 years, and it was helpful to see the story in proportion. Understanding the 1920s-1960s explained SO MUCH about why the Church took its modern shape.

This is not the book to explain every detail. It does not advocate or challenge modern debates. This book explains who and why Mormons are in America. ( )
  richjj | Oct 15, 2021 |
Written by a Mormon, this is a very evenhanded overview of Mormon history and culture, as well as a great depiction of the evolution of their beliefs.

A friend of mine strongly considered converting to Mormonism when I was in high school (she later converted as an adult) and I've been curiously fascinated by the faith ever since. I very much enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone wanting to learn more about Mormon church history and beliefs. ( )
  bribre01 | May 6, 2018 |
I just moved to Utah from New York. I've been a Buddhist for many years and have had very little contact with Mormons... up until now! I figured I'd better get to know my neighbors a bit! This book was perfect. It's a bit on the boring side. It is just a quick march over the facts. An event like the Mountain Meadow Massacre gets maybe a page. But the context has been well set by the history up to that point, so a page lays out the basic facts reasonably well. I feel I could go read a book on that event and not be overly bewildered. The book covers the time from the lives of Joseph Smith's parents up to the early 2000s. ( )
  kukulaj | May 6, 2017 |
A very objective history of a religion that many Americans simply don't know too much about, stereotypes, politicians, and musicals notwithstanding. Filled in a lot of gaps in my knowledge.

Crams a good deal into some 200 pages - from the early historical struggles of the church and how it gradually became more integrated into American life. Discusses its controversies (polygamy, early territorial clashes) as well as its similarities to 'main-stream' Protestant Christianity - ethics, family life, missionary work, etc.

Also has a very nice bibliography, from which I will gleefully steal further suggestions. ( )
  HadriantheBlind | Mar 30, 2013 |
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I noticed two other general features of the book that will likely increase its appeal to non-Mormon readers and to intellectually persuaded Mormons: For one, the book is quite candid and transparent about many of the more curious, troubling, and misunderstood features in Mormon history that have so often been passed over... Bowman’s treatment of all these issues is done with great discretion—revealing but not in any way salacious.

A second appealing feature of the book is its occasional citation of intellectual and artistic products, whether by Mormons or non-Mormons, to illustrate or symbolize important historical developments...

All in all, this book is a pleasure to read. The prose communicates well and colorfully. It would be an excellent basic textbook for a course in Mormon studies at either the graduate or the undergraduate level. I expect it to enjoy a wide readership, partly because of the features I have discussed here, but also because it has the benefit of marketing by a well-known commercial publisher.
 
In “The Mormon People,” Matthew Bowman synthesizes previous scholarship to create a church history that is neither truly secular nor wholly sacred. ...
Bowman does say his aim is to introduce readers “to the faith of presidential contender Mitt Romney and bestselling author Stephenie Meyer” as well as to show that “the story of Mormonism is not merely the story of these believers and their ancestors, but the story of America itself.” He does the first task exceedingly well; he engagingly roots the Mormon story in the particular history of Smith’s time and place, and he reports thoroughly on Smith’s life, his spiritual journey and the birth of a new religion. Yet Bowman never really manages to bring Smith to life. ...
In recounting Mormonism’s most recent history, Bowman paints the church beige. ... Still, for readers eager to know more about Mormon history and beliefs, Bowman’s book is well written and comprehensive. It’s organized chronologically, which helps make the case for the religion’s ongoing and organic relationship with the republic.
adicionada por richjj | editarWashington Post, Diane Winston (Mar 9, 2012)
 
The world needed an accessible, neutral, brief, birth-to-present history of Mormonism, and it needed it right now. Matthew Bowman has written that book. Including every relevant moment ... Bowman works a space-packing miracle... Opinion makers in the media, politics, and academia who want to join the conversation about Mormons will be well prepared by this brisk and rigorous overview, and I imagine many keeping a heavily Post-It-noted copy near at hand in the coming months and years.
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For the most part, Bowman describes supernatural visitations and the like in a factual voice. ... Bowman does meticulously document counter opinions or facts. No member of the whos-who of “challenging” facts in church history is omitted from Bowman’s book: treasure-seeking, multiple accounts of the first vision, Mountain Meadows, and so on. Indeed, this is one thing that makes Bowman’s book so valuable–it is uncompromisingly frank, but not needlessly sensationalistic (I’m looking at you, Krakauer!).
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I would be quicker (very quick) to recommend this to an academic friend, or a serious reader, or as required reading for a class, or as required reading for anyone publicly commentating upon Mormons or Mormonism, than I would to just some hypothetical neighbor who is mildly curious about the church and typically only reads popular novels.
adicionada por richjj | editarBy Common Consent, Cynthia L. (Jan 31, 2012)
 
Bowman's book encompasses the history of Mormonism with an admirable ability to encapsulate its nearly 200-year existence, but lacks the scope of inquiry that would make for a balanced account. Bowman doesn't shy away from the unsavory aspects of the Mormon faith... To leave the valid and well-known questions raised frequently in American culture unmentioned seems at odds with Bowman's credentials as a historian; his overwhelmingly positive take on Mormonism is suspect, too. ... Though relatively in-depth and readable, Bowman's history is not very probing.
adicionada por richjj | editarPublishers Weekly (Jan 30, 2012)
 
Is this religious institution a cult ... or a welcome and recognizably American band of hard-working, cheerful, morally upright citizens? Or is it somehow both? Mr. Bowman, a Mormon with a doctorate in American religious history from Georgetown, weighs the evidence and scampers safely up the middle.
... Mr. Bowman’s prose is well groomed, handsome, hale and hardy; you would probably allow your daughter to date it. It is also watery and dull, void of interesting expression or opinion.
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Mr. Bowman strives for, and mostly achieves, the resonant and lofty tone you associate with popular historians like David McCullough. This tone can work, and work well, but it has its pitfalls. There seems to be no raw or weird experience that Mr. Bowman can’t whip into a verbal cirrus cloud.
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“The Mormon People” is sober history, so sober it misses opportunities to be playful and pointed at once.
adicionada por richjj | editarNew York Times, Dwight Garner (Jan 24, 2012)
 

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With Mormonism on the verge of an unprecedented cultural and political breakthrough, an eminent scholar of American evangelicalism explores the history and reflects on the future of this native-born American faith and its connection to the life of the nation. In 1830, a young seer named Joseph Smith began organizing adherents into a new religious community that would come to be called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (known informally as the Mormons). Here, religious historian Matthew Bowman presents more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church's origin and development, explains how Mormonism came to be one of the fastest-growing religions in the world by the turn of the 21st century, and sets the scene for a 2012 presidential election that has the potential to mark a major turning point in the way this faith is perceived by the wider American public--and internationally.--From publisher description.

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