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The Desert Blossoms as a Rose. Toward a Western Conservation Aesthetic

Published:2021-12-29 Issue: Volume: Page:39-61
ISSN:2232-5174
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Handley George

Abstract

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka The “Mormon” Church) offers what believers consider to be the restoration of an original Christianity. This essay explores the grounds for a Latter-day Saint restoration of a once-lost ecological wisdom that could make contemporary settlements in the American West more sustainable, especially where Latter-day Saints have established many communities. While Latter-day Saints and many other settlers of the West considered their work to be a kind of fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy to make the desert “blossom as a rose” through radical environmental transformation, this essay argues for a more aesthetic and ecologically sensitive response to the native qualities of the desert that need protection or even restoration.

Publisher

Science and Research Centre Koper

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Philosophy,Religious studies

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