American Zion

Author : Betsy Gaines Quammen
Publisher : Torrey House Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781948814157

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American Zion by Betsy Gaines Quammen Pdf

"A deep, fascinating dive into a uniquely American brand of religious zealotry that poses a grave threat to our national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife sanctuaries, and other public lands. It also happens to be a delight to read." —JON KRAKAUER American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law and democracy. Today their cowboy confrontations threaten public lands, wild species, and American heritage. BETSY GAINES QUAMMEN is a historian and conservationist. She received a doctorate in Environmental History from Montana State University in 2017, her dissertation focusing on Mormon settlement and public land conflicts. After college in Colorado, caretaking for a bed and breakfast in Mosier, Oregon, and serving breakfasts at a cafe in Kanab, Utah, Betsy has settled in Bozeman, Montana, where she now lives with her husband, writer David Quammen, three huge dogs, an overweight cat, and a pretty big python named Boots.

Author : Eran Shalev
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300188417

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American Zion by Eran Shalev Pdf

DIV The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times through about 1830, numerous American politicians, commentators, ministers, and laymen depicted their young nation as a new, God-chosen Israel and relied on the Old Testament for political guidance. In this original book, historian Eran Shalev closely examines how this powerful predilection for Old Testament narratives and rhetoric in early America shaped a wide range of debates and cultural discussions—from republican ideology, constitutional interpretation, southern slavery, and more generally the meaning of American nationalism to speculations on the origins of American Indians and to the emergence of Mormonism. Shalev argues that the effort to shape the United States as a biblical nation reflected conflicting attitudes within the culture—proudly boastful on the one hand but uncertain about its abilities and ultimate destiny on the other. With great nuance, American Zion explores for the first time the meaning and lasting effects of the idea of the United States as a new Israel and sheds new light on our understanding of the nation’s origins and culture during the founding and antebellum decades. /div

Author : Eran Shalev
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300186925

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American Zion by Eran Shalev Pdf

DIV A wide-ranging exploration of early Americans’ use of the Old Testament for political purposes /div

Author : Emily Alice Katz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438454665

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Bringing Zion Home by Emily Alice Katz Pdf

Demonstrates how American Jews used culture—art, dance, music, fashion, literature—to win the hearts and minds of postwar Americans to the cause of Israel. Bringing Zion Home examines the role of culture in the establishment of the “special relationship” between the United States and Israel in the immediate postwar decades. Many American Jews first encountered Israel through their roles as tastemakers, consumers, and cultural impresarios—that is, by writing and reading about Israel; dancing Israeli folk dances; promoting and purchasing Israeli goods; and presenting Israeli art and music. It was precisely by means of these cultural practices, argues Emily Alice Katz, that American Jews insisted on Israel’s “natural” place in American culture, a phenomenon that continues to shape America’s relationship with Israel today. Katz shows that American Jews’ promotion and consumption of Israel in the cultural realm was bound up with multiple agendas, including the quest for Jewish authenticity in a postimmigrant milieu and the desire of upwardly mobile Jews to polish their status in American society. And, crucially, as influential cultural and political elites positioned “culture” as both an engine of American dominance and as a purveyor of peace in the Cold War, many of Israel’s American Jewish impresarios proclaimed publicly that cultural patronage of and exchange with Israel advanced America’s interests in the Middle East and helped spread the “American way” in the postwar world. Bringing Zion Home is the first book to shine a light squarely upon the role and importance of Israel in the arts, popular culture, and material culture of postwar America. Emily Alice Katz teaches history at the University of California, Irvine.

Author : Jared Farmer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674036710

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On Zion’s Mount by Jared Farmer Pdf

Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no “Indian” legend graced the mount until Mormon settlers conjured it—once they had displaced the local Indians, the Utes, from their actual landmark, Utah Lake. On Zion’s Mount tells the story of this curious shift. It is a quintessentially American story about the fraught process of making oneself “native” in a strange land. But it is also a complex tale of how cultures confer meaning on the environment—how they create homelands. Only in Utah did Euro-American settlers conceive of having a homeland in the Native American sense—an endemic spiritual geography. They called it “Zion.” Mormonism, a religion indigenous to the United States, originally embraced Indians as “Lamanites,” or spiritual kin. On Zion’s Mount shows how, paradoxically, the Mormons created their homeland at the expense of the local Indians—and how they expressed their sense of belonging by investing Timpanogos with “Indian” meaning. This same pattern was repeated across the United States. Jared Farmer reveals how settlers and their descendants (the new natives) bestowed “Indian” place names and recited pseudo-Indian legends about those places—cultural acts that still affect the way we think about American Indians and American landscapes.

Author : Joseph B. Glass
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344224

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From New Zion to Old Zion by Joseph B. Glass Pdf

American Aliyah (immigration to Palestine) began in the mid-nineteenth century fueled by the desire of American Jews to study Torah and by their wish to live and be buried in the Holy Land. His movement of people-men and women-increased between World War I and II, in direct contrast to European Jewry’s desire to immigrate to the United States. Why would American Jews want to leave America, and what characterized their resettlement? From New Zion to Old Zion analyzes the migration of American Jews to Palestine between the two world wars and explores the contribution of these settlers to the building of Palestine. From New Zion to Old Zion draws upon international archival correspondence, newspapers, maps, photographs, interviews, and fieldwork to provide students and scholars of immigration and settlement processes, the Yishuv (Jewish community in Palestine), and America-Holy Land studies a well-researched portrait of Aliyah.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791480069

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Zion in the Desert by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Zion Commonwealth, Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLI:2602901-10

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The American Zion Commonwealth (inc.) Affiliated with the Zionist Organization of America by American Zion Commonwealth, Inc Pdf

Author : Sylvia R. Frey,Betty Wood
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807846813

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Come Shouting to Zion by Sylvia R. Frey,Betty Wood Pdf

Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830

Author : Walter Ehrlich
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826262646

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Zion in the Valley by Walter Ehrlich Pdf

Author : Benjamin E. Park
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631498664

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American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park Pdf

The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called “burned-over district” of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith’s would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown religion in American history. How Mormonism succeeded is the story told by historian Benjamin E. Park in American Zion. Drawing on sources that have become available only in the last two decades, Park presents a fresh, sweeping account of the Latter-day Saints: from the flight to Utah Territory in 1847 to the public renunciation of polygamy in 1890; from the Mormon leadership’s forging of an alliance with the Republican Party in the wake of the New Deal to the “Mormon moment” of 2012, which saw the premiere of The Book of Mormon musical and the presidential candidacy of Mitt Romney; and beyond. In the twentieth century, Park shows, Mormons began to move ever closer to the center of American life, shaping culture, politics, and law along the way. But Park’s epic isn’t rooted in triumphalism. It turns out that the image of complete obedience to a single, earthly prophet—an image spread by Mormons and non-Mormons alike—is misleading. In fact, Mormonism has always been defined by internal conflict. Joseph Smith’s wife, Emma, inaugurated a legacy of feminist agitation over gender roles. Black believers petitioned for belonging even after a racial policy was instituted in the 1850s that barred them from priesthood ordination and temple ordinances (a restriction that remained in place until 1978). Indigenous and Hispanic saints—the latter represent a large portion of new converts today—have likewise labored to exist within a community that long called them “Lamanites,” a term that reflected White-centered theologies. Today, battles over sexuality and gender have riven the Church anew, as gay and trans saints have launched their own fight for acceptance. A definitive, character-driven work of history, American Zion is essential to any understanding of the Mormon past, present, and future. But its lessons extend beyond the faith: as Park puts it, the Mormon story is the American story.

Author : Giveon Cornfield with Max Seligman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781483634654

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Zion Liberated by Giveon Cornfield with Max Seligman Pdf

“...MASSES OF ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS...WHICH BRING AN URGENCY TO THE NARRATIVE, AS VOICES OF THE PAST SPEAK TO THE PRESENT...( SELIGMAN ) WILL REMAIN ENSHRINED IN THE PAGES OF ISRAEL’S HISTORY -The Exponent

Author : Henry L. Feingold
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486148335

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Zion in America by Henry L. Feingold Pdf

Scholarly survey covers Old World origins; profiles of New World cultures of German and Eastern European Jews; the effects of changing political and economic climates; and immigrant settlement on the Lower East Side settlement.

Author : James T. Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195360059

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Songs of Zion by James T. Campbell Pdf

This is a study of the transplantation of a creed devised by and for African Americans--the African Methodist Episcopal Church--that was appropriated and transformed in a variety of South African contexts. Focusing on a transatlantic institution like the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the book studies the complex human and intellectual traffic that has bound African American and South African experience. It explores the development and growth of the African Methodist Episcopal Church both in South Africa and America, and the interaction between the two churches. This is a highly innovative work of comparative and religious history. Its linking of the United States and African black religious experiences is unique and makes it appealing to readers interested in religious history and black experience in both the United States and South Africa.

Author : Joseph B. Glass
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0814328423

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From New Zion to Old Zion by Joseph B. Glass Pdf

American aliyah (immigration to Palestine) began in the mid-nineteenth century fueled by the desire of Americans Jews to study Torah and by their wish to live and be buried in the Holy Land. This movement of people -- men and women increased between World War I and II, in direct contrast to the European Jewry's desire to immigrate to the United States. Why would American Jews want to leave America, and what characterized their resettlement? From New Zion to Old Zion analyzes the migration of American Jews to Palestine between the two World Wars and explores the contribution of these settlers to the building of Palestine. Joseph B. Glass details the scope and scale of this migration, outlines the characteristics of the immigrants, and constructs profiles of four distinct immigrant groups -- orthodox, middle-class agriculturists, urban professionals, and halutzim (pioneers). Glass studies the motivational factors for emigration from the United States, sources of information and available resources required for settlement, and the political barriers to migration. He examines the activities of the American Zion Commonwealth and its purchase and development of land in Palestine, as well as the settlement initiatives of various American companies and ahuza societies. Glass explores the role of individual men and women in urban and rural settlement on privately purchased and Jewish National Fund land. From New Zion to Old Zion draws upon international archival correspondence, newspapers, maps, photographs, interviews, and fieldwork to provide students and scholars of immigration and settlement processes, the Yishuv (Jewish community in Palestine), and American-Holy Land studies awell-researched portrait of aliyah.