Mormon Passage of George D. Watt : First British Convert, Scribe for Zion /
Ronald G. Watt.
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (305 pages) : : digital, PDF file(s).
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| Opplysninger | Includes 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, as
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| ISBN | 0-87421-758-X
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