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Common people: Church activity during the Brigham Young era
Nearly everything imaginable : the everyday life of Utah's Mormon pioneers • Provo • Published In 1999 • Pages: 249-296
By: Hartley, William G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source examines the institutionalization of religious and social practices during the first two decades of the Salt Lake City settlement. In the beginning there were no churches. People met in homes and meeting houses if they met at all. The author recounts the first steps taken to organize cooperatives, mutual aid societies, and schools, and notes the formalization of religious practices, including baptisms, catechisms, tithing, and fasting. Also discussed are the establishment of teenage Sunday schools and of the YMMIA (Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association) in response to problems of "rowdy, reckless, and lazy" youth.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theological systems
- Ritual
- Ecclesiastical organization
- Status of adolescents
- Adolescent activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mormons
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1851-1877
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Salt Lake Valley, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William G. Hartley
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98058057
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mormons