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Make Yourselves Gods
When: Thursday, September 30, 2021, 03:00pm
Where:
Category: Center for Cultural Analysis
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A book celebration and discussion of Coviello’s Make Yourselves Gods: Mormonism and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism, with
- Peter Coviello (UIC)
- Nancy Bentley (Penn)
- John Modern (Franklin & Marshall)
- Jasbir Puar (Rutgers)
Make Yourselves Gods offers a counter-history of early Mormon theology and practice, tracking the Saints from their emergence as a dissident sect to their renunciation of polygamy at century’s end. Reading Mormonism through a synthesis of religious history, political theology, native studies, and queer theory, Peter Coviello crafts a new framework for imagining orthodoxy, citizenship, and the fate of the flesh in nineteenth-century America.
