Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion / / Ronald G. Watt
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Watt Ronald G
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| Titolo: |
Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion / / Ronald G. Watt
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-87421-758-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996212666603316 |
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