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Author | : Newell G. Bringhurst |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Since 1945 Fawn Brodie's biography on the founding Mormon prophet has received both praise and condemnation. Noted scholars reexamine Brodie, her Joseph Smith biography and its continuing importance.
Author | : Fawn M. Brodie |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0679730540 |
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The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, or a gifted fabulist who became enthralled by the products of his imagination and ended up being martyred for them? 24 pages of photos. Map.
Author | : Andrew Tobolowsky |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316514943 |
Download The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book tells the fascinating, millennia-long story of peoples around the world who have claimed an Israelite identity and history.
Author | : Richard Lyman Bushman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2007-02-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231529562 |
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The eminent historian Richard Bushman here reflects on his faith and the history of his religion. By describing his own struggle to find a basis for belief in a skeptical world, Bushman poses the question of how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally invested. Does personal commitment make objectivity impossible? Bushman explicitly, and at points confessionally, explains his own commitments and then explores Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon from the standpoint of belief. Joseph Smith cannot be dismissed as a colorful fraud, Bushman argues, nor seen only as a restorer of religious truth. Entangled in nineteenth-century Yankee culture—including the skeptical Enlightenment—Smith was nevertheless an original who cut his own path. And while there are multiple contexts from which to draw an understanding of Joseph Smith (including magic, seekers, the Second Great Awakening, communitarianism, restorationism, and more), Bushman suggests that Smith stood at the cusp of modernity and presented the possibility of belief in a time of growing skepticism. When examined carefully, the Book of Mormon is found to have intricate subplots and peculiar cultural twists. Bushman discusses the book's ambivalence toward republican government, explores the culture of the Lamanites (the enemies of the favored people), and traces the book's fascination with records, translation, and history. Yet Believing History also sheds light on the meaning of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon today. How do we situate Mormonism in American history? Is Mormonism relevant in the modern world? Believing History offers many surprises. Believers will learn that Joseph Smith is more than an icon, and non-believers will find that Mormonism cannot be summed up with a simple label. But wherever readers stand on Bushman's arguments, he provides us with a provocative and open look at a believing historian studying his own faith.
Author | : David A. J. Richards |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-03-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1139484133 |
Download Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why, from Reagan to George Bush, have fundamentalists in religion and in law (originalists) exercised such political power and influence in the United States? Why has the Republican Party forged an ideology of judicial appointments (originalism) hostile to abortion and gay rights? Why and how did Barack Obama distinguish himself among Democratic candidates not only by his opposition to the Iraq war but by his opposition to originalism? This book argues that fundamentalism in both religion and law threatens democratic values and draws its appeal from a patriarchal psychology still alive in our personal and political lives and at threat from the constitutional developments since the 1960s. The argument analyzes this psychology (based on traumatic loss in intimate life) and resistance to it (based on the love of equals). Obama's resistance to originalism arises from his developmental history as a democratic, as opposed to patriarchal, man who resists the patriarchal demands on men and women that originalism enforces - in particular, the patriarchal love laws that tell people who and how and how much they may love.
Author | : Daniel C. Peterson |
Publisher | : The Interpreter Foundation |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2014-10-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 150281546X |
Download Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 11 (2014) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is volume 11 (2014) of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics including the resurrection, meat and the Word of Wisdom, Book of Mormon geography, the language of the Book of Mormon, changes in the Book of Mormon, a review of Beam's American Crucifixion, and a look at "nonstandard" Book of Mormon grammar.
Author | : Ronald Warren Walker |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Latter Day Saint churches |
ISBN | : 9780252026195 |
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Author | : Newell C. Bringhurst |
Publisher | : Greg Kofford Books |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2004-08-31 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Excavating Mormon Pasts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the Special Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Excavating Mormon Pasts assembles sixteen knowledgeable scholars from both LDS and the Community of Christ traditions who have long participated skillfully in this dialogue. It presents their insightful and sometimes incisive surveys of where the New Mormon History has come from and which fields remain unexplored. It is both a vital reference work and a stimulating picture of the New Mormon History in the early twenty-first century.
Author | : Brian C. Hales |
Publisher | : Greg Kofford Books |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 2013-02-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Joseph Smith’s Polygamy, Volume 2: History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Few American religious figures have stirred more passion among adherents and antagonists than Joseph Smith. Born in 1805 and silenced thirty-nine years later by assassins’ bullets, he dictated more than one-hundred revelations, published books of new scripture, built a temple, organized several new cities, and became the proclaimed prophet to tens of thousands during his abbreviated life. Among his many novel teachings and practices, none is more controversial than plural marriage, a restoration of the Old Testament practice that he accepted as part of his divinely appointed mission. Joseph Smith taught his polygamy doctrines only in secret and dictated a revelation in July 1843 authorizing its practice (now LDS D&C 132) that was never published during his lifetime. Although rumors and exposés multiplied, it was not until 1852 that Mormons in Brigham Young’s Utah took a public stand. By then, thousands of Mormons were engaged in the practice that was seen as essential to salvation. Victorian America saw plural marriage as immoral and Joseph Smith as acting on libido. However, the private writings of Nauvoo participants and other polygamy insiders tell another, more complex and nuanced story. Many of these accounts have never been published. Others have been printed sporadically in unrelated publications. Drawing on every known historical account, whether by supporters or opponents, Volumes 1 and 2 take a fresh look at the chronology and development of Mormon polygamy, including the difficult conundrums of the Fannie Alger relationship, polyandry, the “angel with a sword” accounts, Emma Smith’s poignant response, and the possibility of Joseph Smith offspring by his plural wives. Among the most intriguing are the newly available Andrew Jenson papers containing not only the often-quoted statements by surviving plural wives but also Jenson’s own private research, conducted in the late nineteenth century. Telling the story of Joseph Smith’s polygamy from the records of those who knew him best, augmented by those who observed him from a distance, may have produced the most useful view of all.
Author | : Philip Lindholm |
Publisher | : Greg Kofford Books |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download Latter-day Dissent Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume collects, for the first time in book form, stories from the “September Six,” a group of intellectuals officially excommunicated or disfellowshipped from the LDS Church in September of 1993 on charges of “apostasy” or “conduct unbecoming” Church members. Their experiences are significant and yet are largely unknown outside of scholarly or more liberal Mormon circles, which is surprising given that their story was immediately propelled onto screens and cover pages across the Western world. Interviews by Dr. Philip Lindholm (Ph.D. Theology, University of Oxford) include those of the “September Six,” Lynne Kanavel Whitesides, Paul James Toscano, Maxine Hanks, Lavina Fielding Anderson, and D. Michael Quinn; as well as Janice Merrill Allred, Margaret Merrill Toscano, Thomas W. Murphy , and former employee of the LDS Church’s Public Affairs Department, Donald B. Jessee. Each interview illustrates the tension that often exists between the Church and its intellectual critics, and highlights the difficulty of accommodating congregational diversity while maintaining doctrinal unity—a difficulty hearkening back to the very heart of ancient Christianity.