American Zion: A New History of Mormonism : Benjamin E. Park

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/734640 to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Zion: A New History of Mormonism Author: Benjamin E. Park Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 42 minutes Release date: January 30, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a profoundly divided faith that has nevertheless shaped the nation. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 in the so-called 'burned-over district' of upstate New York, which was producing seers and prophets daily. Most of the new creeds flamed out; Smith's would endure, becoming the most significant homegrown religion in American history. In American Zion Benjamin E. Park presents a fresh, sweeping account of the Latter-day Saints: from the flight to Utah Territory in 1847 to the public renunciation of polygamy in 1890; from the Mormon leadership's forging of an alliance with the Republican Party in the wake of the New Deal to the 'Mormon moment' of 2012; and beyond. In the twentieth century, Park shows, Mormons began to move ever closer to the center of American life, shaping culture, politics, and law along the way. A definitive, character-driven work of history, American Zion is essential to any understanding of the Mormon past, present, and future. But its lessons extend beyond the faith: as Park puts it, the Mormon story is the American story.