Disenchanted Lives : Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints

Brooks, E. Marshall

Rutgers University Press（2018/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 258 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780813592190
• DDC分類 289.332

Full Description

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Rather than strengthening their faith, the study of church history and scriptures by many members pushes them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, E. Marshall Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community and not out of a lack of dedication as prominently portrayed in religious and scholarly writing on apostasy.  

Contents

Preface
Introduction: The "Crisis of Apostasy" in Modern Mormonism             
1    Ambivalent Pasts: Sacred History and the Crisis of Memory                 
2    "Digging too Deep": The Paradox of Faith                               
3    "The Other Side of Happiness": Disenchantment, Loss, and World-Collapse
4    "I Lost My Body to the Church": Sexual and Spiritual (dis)Embodiment           
5    "Living in the Shadow of the Church": Apostasy, Stigma, and Projective Fantasy          
6    "I'm Apostate, Yes I am": The Politics and Performance of Secular Identity               
7    Religious (dis)Identification: Acquiescence and Anger on the Edge of Mormonism     
Conclusions: "Pastoral Apologetics" and the Future of Mormonism        
References
About the Author