Falling in Love with Joseph Smith My Search for the Real Prophet

Name: Falling in Love with Joseph Smith My Search for the Real Prophet
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ISBN: 9781585429257

ISBN-10: 1585429252

ISBN-13: 9781585429257

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jane Barnes

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When award-winning documentary film writer Jane Barnes was working on the PBS Frontline/American Experience special seriesThe Mormons, she was surprised to find herself passionately drawn to Joseph Smith. The product of an Episcopalian, “WASPy” family, she couldn’t remember ever having met a Mormon before her work on the series—much less having dallied with the idea of converting to a religion shrouded in controversy. But so it was: She was smitten with a man who claimed to have translated the word of God by peering into the dark of his hat. In this brilliantly written book, Barnes describes her experiences working on the PBS series as she moved from secular curiosity to the brink of…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.60" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English




Joseph Smith: Lost and Found



The Return of the Repressed



The Angel, the Plates, and the Power of Joseph's Charms



La Vita Nuova



Joseph Smith Couldn't Have Written the Book of Mormon



Back to the Future



Past-Life Digression



Joseph Through the Particle Accelerator



Contradiction Is Not a Sign of Falsity



The Pure Products of America



Faith and Irony



Except Ye Be Converted, and Become as Little Children



Sanctified Flesh



A Dead Prophet, a Corpse, and a Woman Who Will Die


Acknowledgments


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