The City of the Saints
Author | : Sir Richard Francis Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Sir Richard Francis Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1861 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Caswall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Scott C. Esplin |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2018-11-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0252050851 |
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844. The quiet farm town became a major Mormon heritage site visited annually by tens of thousands of people. Yet Nauvoo's dramatic restoration proved fraught with conflicts. Scott C. Esplin's social history looks at how Nauvoo's different groups have sparred over heritage and historical memory. The Latter-day Saint project brought it into conflict with the Community of Christ, the Midwestern branch of Mormonism that had kept a foothold in the town and a claim on its Smith-related sites. Non-Mormon locals, meanwhile, sought to maintain the historic place of ancestors who had settled in Nauvoo after the Latter-day Saints' departure. Examining the recent and present-day struggles to define the town, Esplin probes the values of the local groups while placing Nauvoo at the center of Mormonism's attempt to carve a role for itself within the greater narrative of American history.
Author | : Leonard J. Arrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : Mormon Church |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Hunt |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250015804 |
To the outside observer, Salt Lake City might seem to be the squeaky-clean "City of Saints"—its nickname since Mormon pioneers first arrived. Its wide roads, huge Mormon temple topped by a horn-blowing angel, and orderly neighborhoods give it the appearance of the ideal American city, but looks can be deceiving. When a beautiful socialite turns up dead, Art Oveson, a twenty-something husband, father, and devout Mormon just getting his start as a sheriff's deputy, finds himself thrust into the role of detective. With his partner, a foul-mouthed former strikebreaker, he begins to pursue the murderer—or murderers. His search takes him into the underbelly of Salt Lake City, a place rife with blackmail, corruption, and death. Based on a true yet largely forgotten murder that once captivated the nation but still remains unsolved eighty years later, City of Saints reveals a darker picture of the Mormon capital than you ever expected.
Author | : Henry Caswall |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3734035945 |
Reproduction of the original: The City of the Mormons by Henry Caswall
Author | : Reid Neilson |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2011-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195384032 |
Reid L. Neilson provides the first examination of Latter-day Saint participation in the 1893 Columbian Exposition, which was a watershed moment in the Mormon migration to the American mainstream and its leadership's discovery of public relations efforts, and marked the dramatic reengagement of the LDS Church with the outside, non-Mormon world after decades of isolation in America's Great Basin desert.
Author | : Leonard J. Arrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jon Krakauer |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2004-06-08 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1400078997 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.