| Contents |
"Ils ont l̐uach̐ue le fou!" : unleashing the Mormon jester -- "La loi nouvelle" : Mormonism and the social question in France -- Mormonism, masculinity, and the woman question in Second Empire France -- Between man and God : Mormons, spiritualism, and the occult -- From page to stage : Mormonism and the woman question in the early Third Republic -- "Ces m̐uurs sont bien les n̐uotres!" : Mormons, marriage, and the divorce debate -- Exotic Mormons and the French colonial project -- "La fin du mormonisme". |
| Abstract |
"In the nineteenth century, a fascination with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made Mormons and Mormonism a common trope in French journalism, literature, politics, and popular culture. Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee illuminate the creation and use of Latter-day Saint stereotypes in France from the 1830s to 1914. Though sometimes ridiculed, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just as often played an important role in satire and criticism that exposed, critiqued, and parodied French society. France's extreme, imagined Mormonism became a malleable tool in debates over issues as diverse as family, Spiritualism, and church-state relations while providing artists and others with a medium for working through the possibilities and impossibilities of their own fragmented nation. Surprising and innovative, Marianne Meets the Mormons looks at how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints influenced generations of French public and intellectual life"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Belnap, Heather. Marianne meets the Mormons Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2022 9780252053696 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022008971 |
| ISBN | 9780252086762 |
| ISBN | 9780252044670 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0252044673 |
| ISBN | 0252086767 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
