Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints - Softcover

Brooks, E. Marshall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813592186 ISBN 13: 9780813592183

Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.  

About this title

About the Author

E. Marshall Brooks is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health and lectures in the School of World Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813592186
• ISBN 13: 9780813592183
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258