Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts /
The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, ""I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Logan :
Utah State University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The central issue Bush finds in these works is how their authors have dealt with the authority of Mormon Church leaders. As she puts it in her preface, ""I use the phrase 'faithful transgression' to describe moments in the texts when each writer, explicitly or implicitly, commits herself in writing to trust her own ideas and authority over official religious authority while also conceiving of and depicting herself to be a 'faithful' member of the Church."" Bush recognizes her book as her own act of faithful transgression. Writing it involved wrestling, she states, ""with my own deeply. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (263 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283267179 9781283267175 9786613267177 6613267171 0874214955 9780874214956 |