The Mormon passage of George D. Watt first British convert, scribe for Zion
Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly g...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, UT :
Utah State University Press
c2009.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430334206719 |
| Summary: | Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly gained an international, if initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix brought it a roster of interesting characters: frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social engineers. Althoughthe Mormon elite soon took on, as |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) Also available in print form |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780874217582 |
