The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History

ISBN-13: 9781607816539 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 312 str.

Jedediah S. Rogers; Matthew C. Godfrey

Spis treści

• Introduction: The Promise and Challenge of Mormon Environmental History, by Jedediah S. Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey
• History, Nature, and Mormon Historiography, by Jedediah S. Rogers
• Part I: Theology and Ideology
• The “Lion of the Lord” and the Land: Brigham Young’s Environmental Ethic, by Sara Dant 
• Lost Memory and Environmentalism: Mormons on the Wasatch
• Front, 1847–1930, by Thomas G. Alexander
• Part II: Perception and Place
• The Natural World and the Establishment of Zion, 1831–1833, by Matthew C. Godfrey
• “We Seldom Find Either Garden, Cow, or Pig”: Encountering Environments in Urban England and the American West, by Brett D. Dowdle
• Mapping Deseret: Vernacular Mormon Mapmaking and Spiritual Geography in the American West, by Richard Francaviglia
• American Zion: Mormon Culture and the Creation of a National Park, by Betsy Gaines Quammen
• Part III: Agrarianism and Urbanism
• Before the Boom: Mormons, Livestock, and Stewardship, 1847–1870, by Jeff Nichols
• “The People Cannot Conquer the River”: Mormons and Water in the Arid Southwest, 1865–1938, by Brian Frehner
• “There Are Millions of Acres in Our State”: Mormon Agrarianism and the Environmental Limits of Expansion, by Brian Q. Cannon
• “The Prophet Said to Plant a Garden”: Spencer W. Kimball and the Transformation of the Mormon Agrarian Tradition, by Nathan N. Waite
• “For the Strength of the Hills”: Casting a Concrete Zion, by Rebecca K. Andersen
• Epilogue: On the Moral Lessons of Mormon Environmental History, by George B. Handley
• Appendix: Righteous Dominion and Compassion for the Earth, by Marcus B. Nash
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Contributors
• Index