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Record Nr.

UNISA996212666603316

Autore

Watt Ronald G

Titolo

Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion / / Ronald G. Watt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Utah State University, University Libraries, 2009

Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-87421-758-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

289.3092

B

Soggetti

Spiritualists - United States

Ex-church members - United States

Ex-church members - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Latter Day Saint converts - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.

Sommario/riassunto

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