The Mormon passage of George D. Watt : first British convert, scribe for Zion

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Watt, Ronald G. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, UT : Utah State University Press c2009.
Subjects:
Watt, G. D. > (George Darling), > 1812-1881.
Mormon converts > Great Britain > Biography.
Ex-church members > Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Biography.
Ex-church members > United States > Biography.
Spiritualists > United States > Biography.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430334206719
Table of Contents:
  • "On the Lord's business"
  • Early life in Britain
  • Journey to America and Nauvoo
  • Mission to Britain
  • Across the wide Atlantic and on to Zion
  • Life and times in Utah : politics in the territory
  • Reporter for Zion
  • Deseret alphabet
  • Family and life in Salt Lake City
  • A man for all seasons : intellectual activities
  • Sermons of obedience : traveling with Brigham Young and to Britain
  • Life-changing events : leaving the office, businessman
  • Spiritual wanderings : apostasy and spiritualism
  • Family and farm life in Davis County.

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