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Disenchanted Lives
Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The âCrisis of Apostasyâ in Modern Mormonism
- Chapter 1. Ambivalent Pasts: Sacred History and the Crisis of Memory
- Chapter 2. âDigging Too Deepâ: The Paradox of Faith
- Chapter 3. âThe Other Side of Happinessâ: Disenchantment, Loss, and World Collapse
- Chapter 4. âI Lost My Body to the Churchâ: Sexual and Spiritual (Dis)embodiment
- Chapter 5. âLiving in the Shadow of the Churchâ: Apostasy, Stigma, and Projective Fantasy
- Chapter 6. âIâm Apostate, Yes I Amâ: The Politics and Performance of Secular Identity
- Chapter 7. Religious (Dis)Identification: Acquiescence and Anger on the Edge of Mormonism
- Conclusion: âPastoral apologeticsâ and the Future of Mormonism
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author