Gay Rights and the Mormon Church
Intended Actions, Unintended Consequences
$111.71
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
29 April 2019
Summary
The Mormon Church entered the public square on LGBT issues by joining forces with traditional-marriage proponents in Hawaii in 1993. Since then, the church has been a significant player in the ongoing saga of LGBT rights within the United States and at times has carried decisive political clout.Gregory Prince draws from over 50,000 pages of public records, private documents, and interview transcripts to capture the past half-century of the Mormon Church’s attitudes on homosexuality. Initially…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781607816638 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1607816636 |
| Author: | Gregory A. Prince |
| Publisher: | University of Utah Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | University of Utah Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 29 April 2019 |
| Weight: | 709g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 162mm x 31mm |
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Critics Review
Focusing on the place held by three immensely popular Sufi saints—Rumi, Yunus Emre, and Haji Bektash—in the Turkish imagination, Soileau provides a fascinating insight into the religious sensibilities and social and political conflicts of modern Turkey. He perceptively reconstructs contestations about the nature of their sainthood that allowed socialists and nationalists, Alevis and Sunnis, humanists and Islamists to appropriate these saints as icons symbolising their own world view.“” - Martin van Bruinessen, co-author of Sufism and the ““Modern”” in Islam
About The Author
Gregory A. Prince
Gregory A. Prince’s avocation in history has led him to write dozens of articles and three books, including the award-winning volumes David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism (coauthored with Wm. Robert Wright) and Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History.
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