Mormon History

Author : Sarah Barringer Gordon
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807875261

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The Mormon Question by Sarah Barringer Gordon Pdf

From the Mormon Church's public announcement of its sanction of polygamy in 1852 until its formal decision to abandon the practice in 1890, people on both sides of the "Mormon question" debated central questions of constitutional law. Did principles of religious freedom and local self-government protect Mormons' claim to a distinct, religiously based legal order? Or was polygamy, as its opponents claimed, a new form of slavery--this time for white women in Utah? And did constitutional principles dictate that democracy and true liberty were founded on separation of church and state? As Sarah Barringer Gordon shows, the answers to these questions finally yielded an apparent victory for antipolygamists in the late nineteenth century, but only after decades of argument, litigation, and open conflict. Victory came at a price; as attention and national resources poured into Utah in the late 1870s and 1880s, antipolygamists turned more and more to coercion and punishment in the name of freedom. They also left a legacy in constitutional law and political theory that still governs our treatment of religious life: Americans are free to believe, but they may well not be free to act on their beliefs.

Author : Richard Abanes
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1568582838

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One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes Pdf

Founded in 1830, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was initially perceived as a movement of polygamous, radical zealots; now in parts of the U.S. it has become synonymous with the establishment. In reevaluating its preoccupation with issues of church and state, Abanes uncovers the political agenda at Mormonism's core: the transformation of the world into a theocratic kingdom under Mormon authority. This illustrated edition has been revised and offers a new postscript by the author.

Author : Ronald Warren Walker,David J. Whittaker,James B. Allen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
ISBN : 0252026195

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Mormon History by Ronald Warren Walker,David J. Whittaker,James B. Allen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190699116

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A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon by Anonim Pdf

The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon presents and examines the primary sources surrounding the origin of the foundational text of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the most successful new religion of modern times. The scores of documents transcribed and annotated in this book include family histories, journal entries, letters, affidavits, reminiscences, interviews, newspaper articles, and book extracts, as well as revelations dictated in the name of God. From these texts emerges the captivating story of what happened (and what was believed or rumored to have happened) between September 1823-when the seventeen-year-old farm boy Joseph Smith announced that an angel of God had directed him to an ancient book inscribed on gold plates-and March 1830, when the Book of Mormon was first published. By compiling for the first time a substantial collection of both first- and secondhand accounts relevant to the inception of the divine revelation-or clever fraud-that launched a new world religion, A Documentary History makes a significant contribution to the rapidly growing field of Mormon Studies.

Author : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : OCLC:6413664

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History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Pdf

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781400078998

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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Pdf

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.

Author : David Persuitte
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786484034

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Joseph Smith and the Origins of The Book of Mormon, 2d ed. by David Persuitte Pdf

Just as a growing interest in millennialism at the turn of this century has rejuvenated religious debate and questions concerning the fate of the world, so did Mormonism develop from millennial enthusiasm early in the nineteenth century. Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, and a provocative, even controversial figure in history, declared that he had been given the authority to restore the true church in the latter days. The primary source of Smith's latter-day revelation is The Book of Mormon, and to fully understand his role as the founder of the Mormon faith, one must also understand The Book of Mormon and how it came to be. Unfortunately, the literature about Joseph Smith and The Book of Mormon is permeated with contradiction and controversy. In the first edition of this impressive work, David Persuitte provided a significant amount of revealing biographical information about Smith that resolved many of the controversies concerning his character. He also presented an extensive comparative analysis positing that the probable conceptual source for The Book of Mormon was a book entitled View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America, which was written by an early New England minister named Ethan Smith. Now in an expanded and revised second edition incorporating many new findings relating to the origin of The Book of Mormon, Mr. Persuitte's book continues to shed much new light on the path Joseph Smith took toward founding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0022796722

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God's Church on Earth by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claudia Lauper Bushman,Richard Lyman Bushman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195150223

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Building the Kingdom by Claudia Lauper Bushman,Richard Lyman Bushman Pdf

The authors introduce the faith's charismatic early leaders, Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, delve deeply into Mormon rites and traditions, follow the adventurous trail of Mormon pioneers into the West, evoke the momentous rise of Salt Lake City, and describe the numerous skirmishes and court battles between the Mormons and their neighbors, other religions, and the American government. They describe the church's formidable institutional apparatus, the unique role of women in Mormon affairs, both before and after the Mormons' practice of polygamy, and how the church has addressed the challenges of modernity. Throughout, the Bushmans demonstrate how the rise of a small and persecuted movement intersected and even transformed the history of the American nation.

Author : LaMar Petersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Book of Mormon
ISBN : UOM:39015062065498

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The Creation of the Book of Mormon by LaMar Petersen Pdf

Author : Miles Gerald Bradford,Alison V. P. Coutts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111525932

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Uncovering the Original Text of the Book of Mormon by Miles Gerald Bradford,Alison V. P. Coutts Pdf

This colorful, informative book features reports on the multipronged effort to determine as far as possible the original English-language translation of the Book of Mormon. Royal Skousen, the editor and principal investigator of the original and printer's manuscripts of the Book of Mormon, details the project's history and some of the more significant findings. Robert Espinosa reviews his team's painstaking work of preserving and identifying remaining fragments of the original manuscript. Ron Romig narrates the investigation into the printer's manuscript, and Larry Draper explains how the press sheets for the 1830 edition reveal overlooked details of the printing process. In an insightful response, Daniel C. Peterson interpolates evidence from Skousen's research to show the divine manner in which the Book of Mormon came forth.

Author : Thomas W. Simpson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469628646

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American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867–1940 by Thomas W. Simpson Pdf

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, college-age Latter-day Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nation's elite universities, including Harvard, Columbia, Michigan, Chicago, and Stanford. Thomas W. Simpson chronicles the academic migration of hundreds of LDS students from the 1860s through the late 1930s, when church authority J. Reuben Clark Jr., himself a product of the Columbia University Law School, gave a reactionary speech about young Mormons' search for intellectual cultivation. Clark's leadership helped to set conservative parameters that in large part came to characterize Mormon intellectual life. At the outset, Mormon women and men were purposefully dispatched to such universities to "gather the world's knowledge to Zion." Simpson, drawing on unpublished diaries, among other materials, shows how LDS students commonly described American universities as egalitarian spaces that fostered a personally transformative sense of freedom to explore provisional reconciliations of Mormon and American identities and religious and scientific perspectives. On campus, Simpson argues, Mormon separatism died and a new, modern Mormonism was born: a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself. Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought, progressivism, and the historicity of Mormonism's sacred past. The scars and controversy, Simpson concludes, linger.

Author : John Bunyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1678
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJ9X4

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The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Pdf

Author : George Dempster Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : WISC:89067401562

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Faithful History by George Dempster Smith Pdf

Over the past decade, Mormon history has undergone a transformation as LDS scholars have debated how their church's story should be written. New Mormon Historians distinguish between what they believe is verifiable and what they suspect may be folklore, and they approach history from a variety of different academic and social perspectives. Mormonism has also become of interest to non-LDS scholars. This raises the question of whether outsiders can truly understand Mormons, and conversely whether insiders can achieve enough detachment to see themselves objectively, or whether this is even desirable. Does history have an inherent meaning beyond the scholar's particular viewpoint, and should a writer strive to understand another person's perspective, or is one's own subjective vantage all that is possible and ultimately what is important? The new Mormon traditionalists contend that objectivity is, in fact, impossible and that history is written with certain pre-understandings; also, that some viewpoints are superior based on spiritual insight, including a belief in God and in Joseph Smith as the prophet, and that one should not impassively report examples of faith but should actively promote them. In this compilation, the editor has assembled sixteen essays which represent all sides of this ongoing discussion.

Author : Gregory A. Prince
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 160781479X

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Leonard Arrington and the Writing of Mormon History by Gregory A. Prince Pdf

The most comprehensive biography of Leonard Arrington to date--a story of scholarship and controversy