Summary

Careful examination of the LDS Church's changing position on political involvement, plural marriage, business relations, administrative reorganization, doctrinal redefinition and missionary work.

Contents

Chapter

1. The 1890's and the Challenge to the Mormon World View
2. The Search for a Pluralistic Political System, 1900-1911
3. The Politics of Change and Reconciliation, 1912-30
4. Recurrent Encounters with Plural Marriage
5. The Temporal Kingdom
6. Administrative Modernization, 1900-1918
7. New Directions in Church Administration, 1918-30
8. The Church Auxiliary Organizations
9. Definition of a Role for the Church Educational System
10. Cooperation and Individualism in Mormon Society
11. The Church and Its Missions
12. Reshaping the Latter-day Saint Image
13. The Adoption of a New Interpretation of the Word of Wisdom
14. Definition and Explication of Church Doctrine