03147nam 2200613Ia 450 991013949790332120200520144314.00-87421-758-X(CKB)2550000000007487(EBL)486004(OCoLC)609710726(SSID)ssj0000363358(PQKBManifestationID)11278400(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000363358(PQKBWorkID)10387698(PQKB)10734828(MiAaPQ)EBC3442802(MdBmJHUP)muse13355(MiAaPQ)EBC486004(Au-PeEL)EBL486004(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/53951(EXLCZ)99255000000000748720090918d2009 ub 0engurbn#---uuuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Mormon passage of George D. Watt first British convert, scribe for Zion /Ronald G. WattLogan, UT Utah State University Pressc20091 online resource (305 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Includes index.Print version: 9780874217568 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.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, asMormon convertsGreat BritainBiographyEx-church membersChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsBiographyEx-church membersUnited StatesBiographySpiritualistsUnited StatesBiographyMormon convertsEx-church membersChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsEx-church membersSpiritualists289.3092BWatt Ronald G983865MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910139497903321The Mormon passage of George D. Watt4202513UNINA