Beschreibung:
In 1997, Terryl Givens's The Viper on the Hearth was praised as a new classic in Mormon studies. In the wake of Mormon-inspired and -created artistic, literary, and political activity--today's "Mormon moment"--Givens presents a revised and updated edition of his book to address the continuing presence and reception of the Mormon image in contemporary culture.
Introduction; Part I: Mormonism, Politics, and History; 1. Out of the Sphere of Religion: The Sacred, the Profane, and the Mormons; 2. This Upstart Sect: The Mormon Problem in American History; 3. Manners, Habits, Customs, and Even Dialect: Sources of the Mormon Conflict; 4. An Age of Humbugs: The Contemporary Scene; 5. This Great Modern Abomination: Orthodoxy and Heresy in American Religion; Part II: Mormonism and Fiction; 6. Ground in the Presbyterian Smut Machine: The Popular Press, Fiction, and Moral Crusading; 7. The Ain't Whites...They're Mormons: Fictive Responses to the Anxiety of Seduction; 8. Murder and Mystery -- Mormon Style: The Mormon Image in the Twentieth Century; Notes; Index