The Mormon image in the American mind : fifty years of public perception / J.B. Haws.
Haws, J. B. (John Ben), 1974- author.
2013
BX8611 .H39 2013 (Mapit)
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Title The Mormon image in the American mind : fifty years of public perception / J.B. Haws.
Author Haws, J. B. (John Ben), 1974- author.
ISBN 9780199897643 hardcover alkaline paper
0199897646 hardcover alkaline paper
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Description x, 412 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number BX8611 .H39 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 289.3/73
Summary Through a fascinating survey of Mormon encounters with the media, including such personalities and events as the Osmonds, the Olympics, the Tabernacle Choir, Evangelical Christians, the Equal Rights Amendment, Sports Illustrated, and presidential candidate Mitt Romney, J.B. Haws reveals the dramatic transformation of the American public's perception of Mormons in the past half-century-- a perception torn between admiration for individual Mormons seen as friendly, hard-working, and family-oriented and ambivalence toward institutional Mormonism allegedly secretive, authoritarian, and weird.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-402) and index.
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