The City Of The Mormons

Author : Scott C. Esplin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050851
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to the City of Joseph written by Scott C. Esplin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry Caswall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of the Mormons written by Henry Caswall and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of the Saints written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leonard J. Arrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the City of God written by Leonard J. Arrington and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints written by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Hunt
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250015804
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Saints written by Andrew Hunt and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 3734035945
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of the Mormons written by Henry Caswall and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The City of the Mormons by Henry Caswall

Author : Reid Neilson
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195384032
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exhibiting Mormonism written by Reid Neilson and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Matthew Bowman
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679644911
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mormon People written by Matthew Bowman and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “From one of the brightest of the new generation of Mormon-studies scholars comes a crisp, engaging account of the religion’s history.”—The Wall Street Journal With Mormonism on the nation’s radar as never before, religious historian Matthew Bowman has written an essential book that pulls back the curtain on more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church’s origins and explains how the Mormon vision has evolved—and with it the esteem in which Mormons have been held in the eyes of their countrymen. Admired on the one hand as hardworking paragons of family values, Mormons have also been derided as oddballs and persecuted as polygamists, heretics, and zealots. The place of Mormonism in public life continues to generate heated debate, yet the faith has never been more popular. One of the fastest-growing religions in the world, it retains an uneasy sense of its relationship with the main line of American culture. Mormons will surely play an even greater role in American civic life in the years ahead. The Mormon People comes as a vital addition to the corpus of American religious history—a frank and balanced demystification of a faith that remains a mystery for many. With a new afterword by the author. “Fascinating and fair-minded . . . a sweeping soup-to-nuts primer on Mormonism.”—The Boston Globe “A cogent, judicious, and important account of a faith that has been an important element in American history but remained surprisingly misunderstood.”—Michael Beschloss “A thorough, stimulating rendering of the Mormon past and present.”—Kirkus Reviews “[A] smart, lucid history.”—Tom Brokaw

Author : Benjamin G. Ferris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Utah and the Mormons written by Benjamin G. Ferris and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secretary of the Territory of Utah, residence in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake, during the severe winter of 1852-53. pref.