Ethan Yorgason
Biographic Data
| ID | 238607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ethan Yorgason |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ethan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yorgason |
| SIGNATURE | YORGASON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University–Hawaii |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Limits of a Label
This article explores limits to the framing power of several important short terms and phrases typically used within eastern Asia’s international politics. It conceptualises these labels as terminological frames. As frames, these terms/phrases help to set agendas, categorise, emphasise certain perspectives while excluding others from view, and ultimately shape opinions about controversial issues within international politics. Yet, I argue, the li…
Eastern Asia's revitalization of the state ideal through maritime territorial disputes
Mormon Ideological Mappings of the Last Days
This article addresses the geo-eschatological ideologies associated with Mormonism. Recent scholarship points to the significance of geopolitical thought within religion to society’s broader geopolitical inclinations. This article reports on a survey of 817 Mormon university students’ geographical/political/social expectations for the “Last Days.” Results show confidence in their church’s institutional and doctrinal roles, but ambivalence toward …
Reading L anyu's tourism landscape
This article analyses the creation and implications for cultural identity of a hybrid tourism landscape on T aiwan's O rchid I sland ( L anyu). It particularly argues that L anyu's native T ao people have begun to gain a somewhat stronger cultural identity and autonomy through this landscape. O rchid I sland underwent rapid modernization within the past 60 years. The article not only shows how tourism was imposed by T aiwan's government, but also…
The normative commitments behind peacemaking
Geography, religion, and emerging paradigms
This introduction to the subsequent forum addresses social and cultural geography's recent engagement with religion and spirituality. While representing a laudable and increasing willingness to approach religion/spirituality through sophisticated concepts and theories, this engagement should include more than just an imposition of the discipline's emerging paradigms on a new object of study. Geographers need to allow religion to 'speak back'. The…
People of Paradox
Journal Article People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture Get access People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture. By Givens Terryl L.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xvii + 414 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.) Ethan Yorgason Ethan Yorgason Brigham Young University Hawai′i Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 100–101…
Kingdom Come
Mormonism's Raveling and Unraveling of a Geopolitical Thread
Salt Lake City Mormonism has long utilised its beliefs toward geopolitical ends. From its beginning in 1830, it never fully accepted the notion that religion exists primarily to promote private faith and moral interpersonal conduct. After a late nineteenth-century compromise between Mormonism and the American state, however, the movement's overt geopolitical agenda crumbled. Leaders and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints c…
No Grounds for Conversation
This paper explores a missed opportunity for serious conversation or even alliance between some adherents of socialism and Mormonism. The Americanization of Mormons and Utah around 100 years ago opened Mormons up to broader alliances than had been possible during most of the 19th century. A few Mormons and socialists thought that intersections between the two groups’ egalitarian ideologies could be fruitfully explored. However, this potential eva…
Creating regional identity, moral orders and spatial contiguity
I explore how moral orders, regional identity, and regional space were simultaneously reconstructed in the Mormon culture region during a period of great social change. Careful attention to the concept of moral orders helps us understand how regions are culturally constructed. In addition, I urge more attention to the spatial form of such regional cultural constructions. In recent years, scholars have been prone to disregard contiguity as deservi…
The public memory of women’s suffrage in Iowa
This paper examines the concept of public memory by comparing two created memories marking the achievement of women’s suffrage in Iowa: (1) the installation of a memorial honoring suffragists in 1936; and (2) the 50th anniversary of the League of Women Voters (and the Nineteenth Amendment) in 1969–1970. Both memories depended heavily on the agendas of the organizations doing the remembering. The paper shows how socially mainstream organizations a…
Geography, religion, and emerging paradigms
This introduction to the subsequent forum addresses social and cultural geography's recent engagement with religion and spirituality. While representing a laudable and increasing willingness to approach religion/spirituality through sophisticated concepts and theories, this engagement should include more than just an imposition of the discipline's emerging paradigms on a new object of study. Geographers need to allow religion to 'speak back'. The…
Creating regional identity, moral orders and spatial contiguity
I explore how moral orders, regional identity, and regional space were simultaneously reconstructed in the Mormon culture region during a period of great social change. Careful attention to the concept of moral orders helps us understand how regions are culturally constructed. In addition, I urge more attention to the spatial form of such regional cultural constructions. In recent years, scholars have been prone to disregard contiguity as deservi…
Mormonism's Raveling and Unraveling of a Geopolitical Thread
Salt Lake City Mormonism has long utilised its beliefs toward geopolitical ends. From its beginning in 1830, it never fully accepted the notion that religion exists primarily to promote private faith and moral interpersonal conduct. After a late nineteenth-century compromise between Mormonism and the American state, however, the movement's overt geopolitical agenda crumbled. Leaders and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints c…
Eastern Asia's revitalization of the state ideal through maritime territorial disputes
Kingdom Come
The public memory of women’s suffrage in Iowa
This paper examines the concept of public memory by comparing two created memories marking the achievement of women’s suffrage in Iowa: (1) the installation of a memorial honoring suffragists in 1936; and (2) the 50th anniversary of the League of Women Voters (and the Nineteenth Amendment) in 1969–1970. Both memories depended heavily on the agendas of the organizations doing the remembering. The paper shows how socially mainstream organizations a…
The public memory of women’s suffrage in Iowa
This paper examines the concept of public memory by comparing two created memories marking the achievement of women’s suffrage in Iowa: (1) the installation of a memorial honoring suffragists in 1936; and (2) the 50th anniversary of the League of Women Voters (and the Nineteenth Amendment) in 1969–1970. Both memories depended heavily on the agendas of the organizations doing the remembering. The paper shows how socially mainstream organizations a…
No Grounds for Conversation
This paper explores a missed opportunity for serious conversation or even alliance between some adherents of socialism and Mormonism. The Americanization of Mormons and Utah around 100 years ago opened Mormons up to broader alliances than had been possible during most of the 19th century. A few Mormons and socialists thought that intersections between the two groups’ egalitarian ideologies could be fruitfully explored. However, this potential eva…
Creating regional identity, moral orders and spatial contiguity
I explore how moral orders, regional identity, and regional space were simultaneously reconstructed in the Mormon culture region during a period of great social change. Careful attention to the concept of moral orders helps us understand how regions are culturally constructed. In addition, I urge more attention to the spatial form of such regional cultural constructions. In recent years, scholars have been prone to disregard contiguity as deservi…
Mormonism's Raveling and Unraveling of a Geopolitical Thread
Salt Lake City Mormonism has long utilised its beliefs toward geopolitical ends. From its beginning in 1830, it never fully accepted the notion that religion exists primarily to promote private faith and moral interpersonal conduct. After a late nineteenth-century compromise between Mormonism and the American state, however, the movement's overt geopolitical agenda crumbled. Leaders and members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints c…
Kingdom Come
Geography, religion, and emerging paradigms
This introduction to the subsequent forum addresses social and cultural geography's recent engagement with religion and spirituality. While representing a laudable and increasing willingness to approach religion/spirituality through sophisticated concepts and theories, this engagement should include more than just an imposition of the discipline's emerging paradigms on a new object of study. Geographers need to allow religion to 'speak back'. The…
People of Paradox
Journal Article People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture Get access People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture. By Givens Terryl L.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xvii + 414 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.) Ethan Yorgason Ethan Yorgason Brigham Young University Hawai′i Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 100–101…
The normative commitments behind peacemaking
Mormon Ideological Mappings of the Last Days
This article addresses the geo-eschatological ideologies associated with Mormonism. Recent scholarship points to the significance of geopolitical thought within religion to society’s broader geopolitical inclinations. This article reports on a survey of 817 Mormon university students’ geographical/political/social expectations for the “Last Days.” Results show confidence in their church’s institutional and doctrinal roles, but ambivalence toward …
Reading L anyu's tourism landscape
This article analyses the creation and implications for cultural identity of a hybrid tourism landscape on T aiwan's O rchid I sland ( L anyu). It particularly argues that L anyu's native T ao people have begun to gain a somewhat stronger cultural identity and autonomy through this landscape. O rchid I sland underwent rapid modernization within the past 60 years. The article not only shows how tourism was imposed by T aiwan's government, but also…
Eastern Asia's revitalization of the state ideal through maritime territorial disputes
The Limits of a Label
This article explores limits to the framing power of several important short terms and phrases typically used within eastern Asia’s international politics. It conceptualises these labels as terminological frames. As frames, these terms/phrases help to set agendas, categorise, emphasise certain perspectives while excluding others from view, and ultimately shape opinions about controversial issues within international politics. Yet, I argue, the li…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Mormonism, Religion, and History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · American History and Culture (3 works) · Geography (3 works)