Author: William MulderPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905006
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Homeward to Zion
Author: William MulderPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905006
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Up in the Rocky Mountains
Author: Jennifer Eastman AtteberyPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452912998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
"By defining personal letters as a vernacular genre, Attebery provides a model for discerning immigrants' shared culture in correspondence collections. By studying their words, she brings to life small Swedish communities throughout the Rocky Mountain region."--BOOK JACKET.
Homeward to Zion
Author: William MulderPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816636747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
In the late nineteenth century, thirty thousand Mormons from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland immigrated to Utah, dissatisfied with conditions in their homelands. As their countrymen were farming rich fields in other parts of the United States, Scandinavian Mormons were making their way to Salt Lake City. Homeward to Zion tracks this movement from northern Europe to the western desert, examining the Mormon recruiting efforts in Scandinavia as well as the arduous journey across the Great Plains. Mulder draws extensively from personal narratives of these immigrants to relate their pioneering experience and their role in the history of Scandinavian migration and of the settlement of the American West.
Homeward to Zion
Author: William MulderPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Norwegian Newspapers in America
Author: Odd Sverre LovollPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A comprehensive look at the Norwegian-language press, celebrating the tireless writers, editors, and publishers whose efforts helped guide Norwegian immigrants on their path to becoming Norwegian Americans
Searching for Zion
Author: Emily RaboteauPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 080219379X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun). A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never felt at home in America. As the daughter of an African American religious historian, she understood the Promised Land as the spiritual realm black people yearned for. But while visiting Israel, the Jewish Zion, she was surprised to discover black Jews. More surprising was the story of how they got there. Inspired by their exodus, her question for them is the same one she keeps asking herself: have you found the home you’re looking for? In this American Book Award–winning inquiry into contemporary and historical ethnic displacement, Raboteau embarked on a ten-year journey around the globe and back in time to explore the complex and contradictory perspectives of black Zionists. She talked to Rastafarians and African Hebrew Israelites, Evangelicals and Ethiopian Jews—all in search of territory that is hard to define and harder to inhabit. Uniting memoir with cultural investigation, Raboteau overturns our ideas of place, patriotism, dispossession, citizenship, and country in “an exceptionally beautiful . . . book about a search for the kind of home for which there is no straight route, the kind of home in which the journey itself is as revelatory as the destination” (Edwidge Danticat, author of The Farming of Bones).
Beautiful Songs for Zion's Children, etc
Author: A. F. ABBOTT (Religious Song Writer.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Handcarts to Zion
Author: LeRoy Reuben HafenPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803272552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand hardy souls who trudged across thirteen hundred miles of prairie, desert, and mountain from 1856 to 1860 were European converts to the Mormon faith. Without funds for wagons and oxen, they carried their possessions in two-wheeled carts powered and aided by their own muscle and blood. Some of the weary travelers would finally be welcomed by their brethren in Salt Lake City; others would go to wayside graves or get caught in early winter storms in the Rockies and hope to be rescued by the parties sent out by Brigham Young. The migration is described in Handcarts to Zion, which draws on diaries and reports of the participants, rosters of the ten companies, and a collection of the songs sung on the trail and at "The Gathering." LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen dedicated the book to his mother, Mary Ann Hafen, who wrote about the long journey in Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman’s Life on the Mormon Frontier, also a Bison Book.
Latter-Day Saint Art
Author: Amanda K. BeardsleyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197632505
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
Latter-day Saint Art: A Critical Reader seeks to fill a substantial gap by providing a comprehensive examination of the visual art of the Latter-day Saints from the nineteenth century to the present. The volume includes twenty-two essays examining art by, for, or about Mormons, as well as over 200 high-quality color illustrations.
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