The Devil Sat on My Bed
Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 February 2024
- ISBN 9780197639634
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 156x235x16 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 488
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Short description:
Many Latter-day Saints in Utah report visits from spirits-both the benevolent spirits of kin and threatening evil spirits-and understand these encounters with reference to key Latter-day teachings. In The Devil Sat on My Bed, Erin E. Stiles draws on interviews with members of Utah's Mormon community to explore their accounts of interactions with spirits and how they understand them.
MoreLong description:
In the mountains of beautiful, bucolic northern Utah, many Latter-day Saints (Mormons) are visited by spirits. Local folklore is filled with stories of uncanny encounters of all kinds, and Latter-day Saint scripture and prophetic teachings emphasize the reality and the importance of the spirit world. Spirit encounters are common in this community. People report visits from the benevolent spirits of kin offering aid and also from evil spirits who tempt and harass. Combining folklore research with ethnography, the book examines many types of spirit encounters and shows that such experiences must be understood as particularly Latter-day Saint phenomena.
Spirit encounters take place within a larger cultural and religious framework that emphasizes the important relationships between living and non-living beings. For Mormons in northern Utah, spirit lore and experiences are interpreted and understood with reference to Latter-day Saint cosmology and particularly Mormon conceptions of the nature of the person, the spirit, and the family, and the nature of righteousness, evil, and spiritual power. The book also explores how people in Utah differentiate between "Mormon culture," the institutional church, and how they understand the "true" meaning of the religion, which has relevance far beyond understanding of people's relationship to the spirit realm and spirit power, and speaks to key issues of concern—and polarization—among Latter-day Saints today.
I found Stiles' account illuminating.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
I. Chapter One: Introduction
II. Chapter Two: The Realm of the Spirits
III. Chapter Three: They Have Shown Me What I Need to Know: Ancestors and Spirit Children
IV. Chapter Four: Where the Veil is Thin: Temple Work, Posthumous Baptism, and the Gratitude of Spirits
V. Chapter Five: The Devil Sat on My Bed: The Slippery Edge of Righteousness
VI. Chapter Six: The Power of the Priesthood, Gender, and Evil Spirits
VII. Conclusion
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