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Autore |
Watt Ronald G |
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Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion / / Ronald G. Watt |
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Utah State University, University Libraries, 2009 |
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Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Soggetti |
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Spiritualists - United States |
Ex-church members - United States |
Ex-church members - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
Latter Day Saint converts - England |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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"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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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