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To Make True Latter-day Saints
Richard Ian Kimball
Historians have used a variety of touchstones to describe the Mormon
experience—polygamy, communal associations, and corporatization among
others—but none has provided a long-term, large-scale, interpretation
of Mormon leisure and recreation. Focusing on the period of 1890 to
1940, Richard Ian Kimball describes the most significant changes that
occurred in Latter-day Saint recreation practices and ideology.Following
the contours of recreation thought in progressive America between 1890
and 1940, leaders and members of the Church employed recreation as a
tool to socialize adolescents into the faith. Concerned with the
problems posed by rapid urbanization and industrialization, Mormons
attempted to ameliorate the problems of the city by inculcating morals
and values through sports and recreation programs. The effects of these
programs are still visible in the Church today. This dissertation
represents a pioneering work in early twentieth-century Mormon social
history.
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