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050	0	0	_aBX8611 _b.C6485 2019
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100	1		_aCoviello, Peter, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMake yourselves gods : _bMormons and the unfinished business of American secularism / _cPeter Coviello.
300			_a304 pages ; _c24 cm
490	0		_aClass 200: new studies in religion
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart One: Axiomatic -- Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Secularism -- Part Two: Joy -- Endless Felicity: The Radiant Body of Early Mormon Theology -- Gods in Subjection: Women, Polygamy, and the Eternity of Sex -- Part Three: Extermination -- The Polygamist's Complexion; or, The Book of Mormon Goes West -- Wards and Sovereigns: Deviance and Dominion in the Biopolitics of Secularism -- Part Four: Theodicy -- Conclusion: Protohomonationalism.
520			_a"The story of nineteenth-century Mormonism told in Make Yourselves Gods is one of dynamism and violence, but also the wild beauty and imaginative power. Peter Coviello follows the Mormons from the period of their earliest emergence as a dissident sect-widely despised as self-governing religious zealots and sex-radicals-to safely enfranchised subjects of the United States. During their exodus to the West, Mormons saw themselves as having less in common with white Protestants than with Native tribes, fellow-refugees from imperial America who also enjoyed social arrangements unstructured by monogamy. They were cast out from Protestant America, defined socially and sexually by their extravagances of belief. in other words, by bad religion. When the Mormons at last renounced polygamy at the end of the nineteenth century-thereby attaining statehood for Utah and becoming enfranchised U.S. subjects-they fell under the protection secularism's "toleration" but also found themselves paying, Coviello argues, the complex wages of racial and sexual normativity. Coviello is the first to tell the story of Mormonism across these several registers, synthesizing archival research with the conceptual tools queer theory, political theology, and Native Studies. The result is a new framework for imagining heterodoxy, citizenship, and sex in secularizing nineteenth-century America"--
610	2	0	_aChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints _xHistory.
650		0	_aMormon Church _xHistory.
651		0	_aUnited States _xReligion.
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