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EBOOK In Heaven as It Is on Earth:Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199912926
EAN: 8E3713ACEB
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Stron: 408
Data wydania: 2011
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A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Brown's In Heaven as It        Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of founder Joseph Smith's profound        preoccupation with the specter of death.Revisiting historical documents and        scripture from this novel perspective, Brown offers new insight into the origin and        meaning of some of Mormonism's earliest beliefs and practices. The world of early        Mormonism was besieged by death--infant mortality, violence, and disease were        rampant. A prolonged battle with typhoid fever, punctuated by painful surgeries        including a threatened leg amputation, and the sudden loss of his beloved brother        Alvin cast a long shadow over Smith's own life. Smith embraced and was deeply        influenced by the culture of "e;holy dying"e;--with its emphasis on deathbed salvation,        melodramatic bereavement, and belief in the Providential nature of untimely        death--that sought to cope with the widespread mortality of the period. Seen in this        light, Smith's treasure quest, search for Native origins, distinctive approach to        scripture, and belief in a post-mortal community all acquire new meaning, as do        early Mormonism's Masonic-sounding temple rites and novel family system. Taken        together, the varied themes of early Mormonism can be interpreted as a campaign to        extinguish death forever. By focusing on Mormon conceptions of death, Brown recasts        the story of first-generation Mormonism, showing a religious movement and its        founder at once vibrant and fragile, intrepid and unsettled, human and        otherworldly.A lively narrative history, In Heaven as It Is on Earth illuminates not        only the foundational beliefs of early Mormonism but also the larger issues of        family and death in American religious history.

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