{"product_id":"book-1xdf","title":"Make Yourselves Gods","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged--socially, sexually, even racially--by the extravagances of belief they called \"religion.\" \u003cem\u003eMake Yourselves Gods\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver these turbulent decades, Mormons would appear by turns as heretics, sex-radicals, refugees, anti-imperialists, colonizers, and, eventually, reluctant monogamists and enfranchised citizens. Reading Mormonism through a synthesis of religious history, political theology, native studies, and queer theory, Peter Coviello deftly crafts a new framework for imagining orthodoxy, citizenship, and the fate of the flesh in nineteenth-century America. What emerges is a story about the violence, wild beauty, and extravagant imaginative power of this era of Mormonism-an impassioned book with a keen interest in the racial history of sexuality and the unfinished business of American secularism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":67150604009776,"sku":"BD1xdf","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1xdf-Square-cover.png?v=1782488583","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1xdf","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}