Mormon People The Making of an American Faith

Name: Mormon People The Making of an American Faith
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ISBN: 9780679644903

ISBN-10: 0679644903

ISBN-13: 9780679644903

Edition: 2012

Authors: Matthew Bowman

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With Mormonism on the verge of an unprecedented cultural and political breakthrough, an eminent scholar of American evangelicalism explores the history and reflects on the future of this native-born American faith and its connection to the life of the nation. In 1830, a young seer and sometime treasure hunter named Joseph Smith began organizing adherents into a new religious community that would come to be called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (and known informally as the Mormons). One of the nascent faith’s early initiates was a twenty-three-year-old Ohio farmer named Parley Pratt, the distant grandfather of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. InAmerican…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Publication date: 1/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.75" wide x 10.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Joseph Smith and the first Mormons: TO 1831



Little Zionï¿½s: 1831-1839



City of Joseph: 1839-1846



Come, Come, Ye Saints: 1846-1877



The Rise and Fall of Plural Marriage: 1852-1896



Eternal progression: 1890-1945



Correlation: 1945-1.978



Toward a Global Church: 1978-2011


Conclusion



The Mormon Hierarchy



mormon scripture



cast of characters



the family: a proclamation to the world


bibliographic essay


notes


index