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Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism Among the Latter-Day Saints

Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism Among the Latter-Day Saints

Brooks, E. Marshall

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ISBN10: 0813592186
ISBN13: 9780813592183
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Aug 27 2018
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormons), often heralded as the fastest growing religion in American history, is facing a crisis of apostasy. Rather than strengthening their faith, the study of church history and scriptures by many members pushes them away from Mormonism and into a growing community of secular ex-Mormons. In Disenchanted Lives, E. Marshall Brooks provides an intimate, in-depth ethnography of religious disenchantment among ex-Mormons in Utah. Showing that former church members were once deeply embedded in their religious life, Brooks argues that disenchantment unfolds as a struggle to overcome the spiritual, social, and ideological devotion ex-Mormons had to the religious community and not out of a lack of dedication as prominently portrayed in religious and scholarly writing on apostasy.

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