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



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Autore: Watt Ronald G Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion / / Ronald G. Watt Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Utah State University, University Libraries, 2009
Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2009
©2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 289.3092
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Soggetto topico: Spiritualists - United States
Ex-church members - United States
Ex-church members - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Latter Day Saint converts - England
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
Titolo autorizzato: Mormon passage of George D. Watt  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-87421-758-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996212666603316
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