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Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse de Christopher James Blythe

Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse

Autor Christopher James Blythe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 aug 2023

Observăm în literatura academică dedicată mișcărilor religioase americane o lacună în ceea ce privește analiza sistematică a modului în care profețiile apocaliptice ale laicilor au influențat structura instituțională a mormonismului. Terrible Revolution vine să umple acest gol, oferind o examinare detaliată a modului în care viziunile despre un sfârșit violent al Statelor Unite au servit drept mecanism de supraviețuire și identitate pentru Sfinții din Zilele din Urmă în secolul al XIX-lea. Reținem cu interes modul în care Christopher James Blythe documentează tranziția de la o ostilitate fățișă față de guvernul american — alimentată de exil și persecuții — către o dorință de legitimitate politică odată cu integrarea statului Utah.

Comparabil cu From Above and Below: The Mormon Embrace of Revolution, 1840-1940 de Craig Livingston în rigurozitate, volumul de față este actualizat pentru a evidenția discrepanța dintre discursul oficial al ierarhiei bisericești și „folclorul” apocaliptic care a persistat la nivelul membrilor de rând. Dacă în Open Canon, autorul explora natura fluidă a scripturii mormone, în Terrible Revolution el extinde această perspectivă asupra viziunilor escatologice, arătând cum imaginile violente ale plăgilor și invaziilor străine au fost reinterpretate ca promisiuni ale unei renașteri naționale. Textul este echilibrat, evitând senzaționalismul și oferind în schimb o analiză nuanțată a modului în care o comunitate religioasă își negociază locul într-o națiune pe care o consideră, simultan, tiranică și sacră.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197695159
ISBN-10: 0197695159
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 146 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru cercetătorii istoriei americane și ai sociologiei religiei, oferind o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care credințele marginale influențează politica de masă. Cititorul va înțelege cum profețiile populare pot supraviețui în ciuda eforturilor de reglementare ale autorității centrale, oferind un studiu de caz fascinant despre reziliența culturală și adaptarea religioasă în fața modernității.

Despre autor

Christopher James Blythe este un cercetător specializat în istoria și folclorul mormon, fiind recunoscut pentru abordările sale care combină studiile religioase cu analiza culturală. În opera sa, care include titluri precum Open Canon și colaborări la The Three Nephites, acesta s-a concentrat constant pe intersecția dintre textul sacru, tradiția orală și identitatea comunitară. Expertiza sa în arhivele Bisericii lui Isus Hristos a Sfinților din Zilele din Urmă îi permite să extragă surse primare puțin explorate, transformând viziunile laicilor în date istorice riguroase pentru a explica evoluția mormonismului în context american.

Descriere

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints' exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who practiced plural marriage. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt governments across the globe, particularly the tyrannical government of the United States. The infamous "White Horse Prophecy" referred to this coming American apocalypse as "a terrible revolution… in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be literally left without a supreme government." Mormons envisioned divine deliverance by way of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American cities and American people. For the Saints, these violent images promised a national rebirth that would vouchsafe the protections of the United States Constitution and end their oppression.In Terrible Revolution, Christopher James Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity. The responses of the church hierarchy to apocalyptic lay prophecies promoted their own form of separatist nationalism during the nineteenth century. Yet, after Utah obtained statehood, as the church sought to assimilate to national religious norms, these same leaders sought to lessen the tensions between themselves and American political and cultural powers. As a result, visions of a violent end to the nation became a liability to disavow and regulate. Ultimately, Blythe argues that the visionary world of early Mormonism, with its apocalyptic emphases, continued in the church's mainstream culture in forms but continued to maintain separatist radical forms at the level of folk-belief.

Recenzii

Certainly, the book reveals a rich lode of apocalypticism that persists and changes within religious traditions that lay claim to be the restoration of all things prior to the earth's final dispensation. In so doing, it invites promising further work by scholars of religious futurism.
It is when he begins to explore understudied material... that this book really starts to break new ground and offer not simply new history, but new perspectives on the trajectory of the new religious movement that Joseph Smith founded.
Blythe's most admirable achievement with this volume is his ability to provide a fascinating, easily accessible, but still truly academic, thoroughly researched, and meticulously presented cultural and social history of the Latter-day Saints in the United States, structured around the theme of the apocalypse ... I wholeheartedly recommend Terrible Revolution.
...this volume is a unique contribution to the literature on American religious history. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.
The title may include "Terrible," but this book is anything but. It is a unique contribution to understanding the history, theology, and folklore surrounding the much-anticipated end times through the eyes of the church and its lay members.
Terrible Revolution was one of the most exciting and well-researched books I've read in a while. It is a book that you want to complete in one sitting, but don't. Instead, you show restraint and space out the reading because you want to savor the history and enjoy it a moment longer.
Christopher Blythe has written an essential guide for understanding the religious culture of Mormonism. Terrible Revolution takes readers from early expectations of an imminent Second Coming, to the White Horse Prophecy, to contemporary preppers. An essential text.
In this illuminating study, Christopher Blythe spins a masterful narrative that combines an impressive breadth of sources, official and popular, to tell a story still unfolding in the 21st century." -Terryl Givens, author of Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought
Blythe's Terrible Revolution offers a smart, original, and compelling analysis of the evolving role of apocalyptic thinking in the LDS Church. Blythe has marshalled thousands of sources, some long hidden away in obscure places, and diligently connected them to larger social and political trends." -Matthew Avery Sutton, author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
Blythe does a terrific job walking the reader through the shifts and nuances of the multiple apocalyptic themes that pepper the LDS imagination, both officially and unofficially." -Amy Hoyt, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought Ik Y
The Latter-day Saints of the nineteenth century belonged to an apocalyptic tradition, argues historian and folklorist Christopher Blythe in his highly informative book Terrible Revolution....Blythe charts the rise and fall of Mormon apocalyptic discourse over the two-hundred- year history of the Restoration. He defines "apocalyptic" as "the belief that society was headed toward cataclysmic events that would uproot the current social order in favor of a divine order that would be established in its place".
Terrible Revolution contributes significantly to religious studies by showcasing how apocalypticism shapes and reflects communal identities. It will interest scholars of American religion, folklore, and millenarianism, as well as those curious about the intersections of faith and culture. For those deeply engaged in these fields, Blythe's work is indispensable.

Notă biografică

Christopher James Blythe is an assistant professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he teaches courses on folklore and Latter-day Saint literature. He has previously held positions at the Neal A. Maxwell Institute of Religious Scholarship and the Joseph Smith Papers. From 2016-2022, Blythe was an editor for the Journal of Mormon History. He has published extensively in academic journals including Nova Religio, Journal of Religion, and Material Religion; co-edited three volumes of the Joseph Smith Papers series and an edited collection, Open Canon: Scriptures of the Latter Day Saint Tradition (University of Utah, 2022).