Introduction
pt. 1. Foundations and paradoxes in Mormon cultural origins
1. The iron rod and the Liahona : authority and radical freedom
2. The endless quest and perfect knowledge : searching and certainty
3. Everlasting burnings and cinder blocks : the sacred and the banal
4. Peculiar people and loneliness at the top : election and exile
pt. 2. The varieties of Mormon cultural expression
Beginnings (1830-1890) : the dancing Puritans
5. "The glory of God is intelligence" : Mormons and the life of the mind
6. "Zion shall be built" : architecture and city planning
7. "No music in Hell" : music and dance
8. "on a cannibal island" : theater
9. "Novels rather than nothing" : literature
10. A goodly portion of painters and artists" : visual arts


pt. 3. The varieties of Mormon cultural expression
A movable Zion (1890-present) : pioneer nostalgia and beyond the American religion
11. "Fomenting the pot" : the life of the mind
12. "A uniform look for the Church" : architecture
13. "No Tabernacle Choir on Broadway" : music and dance
14. "Cinema as sacrament" : theater and film
15. "To the fringes of faith" : literature
16. "Painting the Mormon story" : visual arts
Conclusion : "Through the particular to the universal"
Notes
Index.