Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region

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In this unique study, Ethan R. Yorgason examines the Mormon “culture region” of the American West, which within the late nineteenth century was once characterized by sexual immorality, communalism, and anti-Americanism but is now marked by social conservatism. Foregrounding the idea that of region, Yorgason traces the conformist-conservative trajectory that arose from intense moral and ideological clashes between Mormons and non-Mormons from 1880 to 1920. Taking a look throughout the lenses of regional geography, history, and cultural studies, Yorgason investigates shifting moral orders in terms of gender authority, economic responsibility, and national loyalty, community, and home life.
 
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region charts how Mormons and non-Mormons resolved their cultural contradictions through the years by a progressive narrowing of the variety of moral positions on gender (in favor of Victorian gender relations), the economy (in favor of individual economics), and the nation (identifying with national power and would possibly). Mormons and non-Mormons together constructed a regime of effective coexistence even as retaining regional distinctiveness.

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