Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region

In this unique study, Ethan R. Yorgason examines the Mormon ''culture region'' of the American West, which in the late nineteenth century was characterized by sexual immorality, communalism, and anti-Americanism but is now marked by social conservatism. Foregrounding the concept of region, Yorgason traces how Mormons and non-Mormons resolved their cultural contradictions over time by a progressive narrowing of the range of moral positions on gender (in favour of Victorian gender relations), the economy (in favour of individual economics), and the nation (identifying with national power and might). Ethan R. Yorgason is an adjunct assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Brigham Young University, Hawai'i.