The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life (1975) ~ by Ephraim Edward Ericksen — Hardbound with Dust Jacket

The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life

By Ephraim Edward Ericksen

Published: 1975

ISBN: 0874800900

Average to good used condition with dust jacket.

E. E. Ericksen sees great problems or crises as the vital factors in social evolution as well as in individual adaptation.

In this fine monograph—originally published by the University of Chicago Press in 1922—the author applies the principles of functional psychology to Mormon history, conceived as a process of mental and social adaptation in the face of three great crises: the conflict between Mormons and “gentiles,” the conflict between the Mormon people and nature in the desert region of the Great Basin, and the more recent conflict between Mormon institutions and traditions on one hand and the innovations of science and the new democratic spirit on the other.

In his introductory essay Dr. Sterling McMurrin discusses the pragmatic sociopsychological treatment of religion that characterized Ericksen’s philosophy. He has called this book “unquestionably one of the most important studies ever made of Mormonism.”

Ericksen was greatly influenced by John Dewey and studied under three of the foremost social philosophers of the early twentieth century—Tufts, Mead, and Ames.

The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life is authoritative, concise, and tightly reasoned in approach, yet captures in highly readable fashion the spirit of earthy romanticism so characteristic of early Mormonism.

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