TY  - BOOK
AU  - Walker,David
TI  - Railroading religion: Mormons, tourists, and the corporate spirit of the West 
SN  - 9781469653211
AV  - BX8611 .R355 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Mormon Church
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - Railroads
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Tourism
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Corinnethians and the death knell thesis --; Brigham Young and the railroad connection --; Godbeites and the capital of dissent --; Steamboats and the rise of atrocity tourism --; Patrons and the plays of Mormon culture --; Tourists and the making of an American mainline; 2; b
N2  - "Walker tracks how 'knowledge' about Mormon life was generated among settlers, railroad agents, travelers, boosters, and bureaucrats from Sacramento to Salt Lake to Washington D.C. and stops between. How ordinary Americans articulated and advanced their own theories about Mormondom, Walker argues, accomplished nothing less than the rise of religion as a category of both the popular and scholarly imagination. As it happened, the burgeoning of railroad-related alliances and businesses stimulated LDS Church officials to mobilize in ways that ironically yielded increasingly dynamic and expansive religious institutions. Rather than eradicating or diminishing Mormonism western railroads and their boosters helped to establish it as a normative American religion"--
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