TY  - GEN
T1  - Railroading religion : Mormons, tourists, and the corporate spirit of the West
A1  - Walker, David, 1975-
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1112152964
AB  - "Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, Walker argues, accomplished nothing less than the rise of religion as a category of both the popular and scholarly imagination. As it happened, the burgeoning of railroad-related alliances and businesses stimulated LDS Church officials to mobilize in ways that ironically yielded increasingly dynamic and expansive religious institutions. Rather than eradicating or diminishing Mormonism western railroads and their boosters helped to establish it as a normative American religion"--
CN  - BX8611 .W335 2019eb
SN  - 9781469653211
SN  - 1469653214
SN  - 9781469653228
SN  - 1469653222
SN  - 9781469653198
SN  - 1469653192
SN  - 9781469653204
SN  - 1469653206
KW  - Latter Day Saint churches : History : 19th century.
KW  - Latter Day Saint churches : Public opinion : History : 19th century.
KW  - Railroads : West (U.S.) : History : 19th century.
KW  - Tourism : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Corinne (Utah) : History : 19th century.
KW  - Églises de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours : Opinion publique : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - RELIGION : History.
KW  - Mormon Church
KW  - Mormon Church : Public opinion
KW  - Railroads
KW  - Tourism
KW  - United States
KW  - West United States
KW  - Utah : Corinne
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
ER  -