Mediated Mormons: Shifting Religious Identities in the Digital Age

di Rosemary Avance (Autore)

University of Utah Press,U.S., 2025

In the early- to mid-2010s, Mitt Romney’s presidential candidacy, the hit Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ “I’m a Mormon” media campaign brought critical media attention to Mormonism. In this first lengthy treatment of Mormon identities as they intersect with their religious institution, the internet, and modernity during the so-called “Mormon Moment,” Rosemary Avance explores how LDS stakeholders challenged traditional notions of what it means to be Mormon, vying for control of their own public narratives. Mediated Mormons uses a case study approach to consider various iterations of Mormon identity as presented by church authorities, faithful members, the secular media, and heterodox and former adherents. These often-conflicting perspectives challenge traditional models of LDS authority, dismantling a monolithic view of Mormons and offering a window into processes of social activism and institutional change in the internet era.

• Autore: Rosemary Avance
• Editore: University of Utah Press,U.S.
• Collana: Juanita Brooks Series in Mormon History and Culture
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 216 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 454 gr.
• EAN: 9781647692056

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