Author: Nelson Winch GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Fifteen Years Among the Mormons: Being the Narrative of Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith, Late of Great Salt Lake City: a Sister of One of the Mormon High Priests
Author: Nelson Winch GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Fifteen Years Among the Mormons: Being the Narrative of Mrs. Mary Ettie V. Smith, Late of Great Salt Lake City: a Sister of One of the Mormon High Priests
Author: Nelson Winch GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Fifteen Years Among the Mormons
Author: Nelson Winch GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saint churches
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
A Foreign Kingdom
Author: Christine TalbotPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252095359
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
The years from 1852 to 1890 marked a controversial period in Mormonism, when the church's official embrace of polygamy put it at odds with wider American culture. In this study, Christine Talbot explores the controversial era, discussing how plural marriage generated decades of cultural and political conflict over competing definitions of legitimate marriage, family structure, and American identity. In particular, Talbot examines "the Mormon question" with attention to how it constructed ideas about American citizenship around the presumed separation of the public and private spheres. Contrary to the prevailing notion of man as political actor, woman as domestic keeper, and religious conscience as entirely private, Mormons enfranchised women and framed religious practice as a political act. The way Mormonism undermined the public/private divide led white, middle-class Americans to respond by attacking not just Mormon sexual and marital norms but also Mormons' very fitness as American citizens. Poised at the intersection of the history of the American West, Mormonism, and nineteenth-century culture and politics, this carefully researched exploration considers the ways in which Mormons and anti-Mormons both questioned and constructed ideas of the national body politic, citizenship, gender, the family, and American culture at large.
Bibliotheca Americana, 1883
Author: Robert Clarke & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relaing to America ...
Author: Clarke, Robert, & Co., Cincinnati, O.Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph Smith’s Polygamy, Volume 3: Theology
Author: Brian C. HalesPublisher: Greg Kofford Books
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Americans of Joseph Smith’s day, steeped in the stories and prophecies of the King James Bible, certainly knew about plural marriage; but it was a curiosity relegated to the misty past of patriarchs Abraham and Jacob, who never gave reasons for their polygamy. It was long abandoned, Christians understood, by the time Jesus set forth the dominating law of the New Testament. But how did Joseph Smith understand it? Where did it fit in the “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21) predicted in the New Testament? What part did it play in the global ideology declared by this modern prophet who produced new scripture, new revelation, and new theology? During Joseph Smith’s lifetime, polygamy was taught and practiced in intense secrecy, with the result that he never fully explained its doctrinal underpinnings or systematized its practice. As a result, reconstructing Joseph Smith’s theology of plurality is a task that has seldom been undertaken. Most theological examinations have either focused on its development during Brigham Young’s Utah period, with its need to resist increasing federal legislative and judicial pressures, or the efforts of twentieth-century and contemporary “fundamentalists” who continue to marry a plurality of wives. Volume 3 of this three-volume work builds on the carefully reconstructed history of the development of Mormon polygamy during Joseph Smith’s lifetime, then assembles the doctrinal principles from his recorded addresses, the diary entries of those closely associated with him, and his broader teachings on the related topics of obedience to God’s will, marriage and family relations, and the mechanics of eternal progression, salvation, and exaltation. The revelation he dictated in July 1843 that authorized the practice of eternal and plural marriage receives unprecedented examination and careful interpretation that illuminate this significant document and its underlying doctrines. Attempts to explain the history of Joseph Smith’s polygamy without comprehending the theological principles undergirding its practice will always be incomplete and skewed. This volume, which takes those principles and evidences with the utmost seriousness, has produced the most important explanation of “why” this ancient practice reemerged among the Latter-day Saints on the shores of the Mississippi in the early 1840s.
Fifteen Years Among the Mormons
Author: Nelson Winch GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latter Day Saints
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Fifteen Years Among the Mormons
Author: Nelson Winch GreenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780461097986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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