Main entry:

Carter, Thomas, 1949-

Title & Author:

Building Zion : the material world of Mormon settlement / Thomas Carter.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]

Description:

xxxi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Series:

Architecture, landscape, and American culture series

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: A Landscape of Difference -- Faith and Works: A Historical Framework -- The Settlement Matrix: Towns and Temples -- According to Need: Family Stewardships and the Distribution of Resources -- Frontier Fashion: Domestic Architecture and Individual Display -- Polygamy and Patriarchy: Women in the Landscape -- Business as Usual: The Americanization of the Mormon Main Street -- Meetinghouses: The Search for Mormon Identity -- Mansion on the Hill: The Temple as Ritual Space -- Conclusion: The Enduring Zion.

Summary:

Focusing on a network of small towns in Utah, Thomas Carter explores the key elements of the Mormon cultural landscape: town planning, residences (including polygamous houses), stores and other nonreligious buildings, meetinghouses, and temples. Zion, Carter demonstrates, is an evolving entity, reflecting the church's shift from group-oriented millenarian goals to more individualized endeavors centered on personal salvation and exaltation, and displaying a unique blending of sacred and secular spaces.

ISBN:

9780816689569 (hardback)
0816689563 (hardback)
9780816689576 (pb)
0816689571 (pb)
(ebook)
9781452942865

Subject:

Mormonen
Latter Day Saint architecture West (U.S.)
Cultural landscapes West (U.S.)
Zion (Latter Day Saint doctrine)
ARCHITECTURE History General.
RELIGION Christianity Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)
HISTORY United States General.
Cultural landscapes
Latter Day Saint architecture
Architektur
Städtebau
West United States

Added entries:

Architecture, landscape, and American culture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289447
Call No.: BIB 231933
Status: Available