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Disenchanted lives
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apostasy and ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints
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Brooks
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Edward Marshall
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1984-
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Edward Marshall Brooks III
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III
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Hodgson
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Dorothy
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chair
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Laura
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internal member
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Cragun
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Ryan
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Ryan Cragun
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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This dissertation ethnographically explores the contemporary phenomenon of religious apostasy (that is, rejecting ones religious faith or church community) among current and former members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormons). Over the past decade there has been increasing awareness in both the institutional church and the popular media that growing numbers of once faithful church members are becoming dissatisfied and disenchanted with their faith. In response, throughout Utah post-Mormon and ex-Mormon communities have begun appearing offering a social community and emotional support for those transitioning out of the church. Through fifteen months of ethnographic research in the state of Utah I investigated these events as they unfolded in people’s everyday lives living in a region of the country wholly dominated by the Mormon Church’s presence. In particular, I conducted participant observation in church services, ex-Mormon support group meetings, social networks and family events, as well as in-depth interviews with current and former church members. Each chapter of this dissertation explores the causes and effects of religious disenchantment as they reverberate across multiple registers: how an overabundance of memory about Mormonism’s sacred history has led to people’s estrangement from its religious life-world; how despite rejecting beliefs on a cognitive basis the effects of those beliefs can still linger in people’s sense of embodied self; how apostates’ uncanny familiarity provokes current church members’ attempts to expel them from families and neighborhoods; and how the loss of belief is negotiated through attempts to both identity and dis-identify with the Mormon community.
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Anthropology
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Mormons
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Ex-church members--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (v, 337 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Edward Marshall Brooks III
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3WS8W71
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ETD doctoral
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Brooks
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Edward
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Marshall
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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2018-01-31
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2019-01-31
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after January 31, 2019.
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