A highly sophisticated, scholarly analysis of cultural and religious origins and development....Shipps is not only a leading authority on Mormonism but a cultural historian of a very high order.
A highly sophisticated, scholarly analysis of cultural and religious origins and development....Shipps is not only a leading authority on Mormonism bu...
The preeminent non-Mormon interpreter of Mormonism combines her personal experiences among the Mormons with writing about this tradition she has been doing across the past thirty years.
The preeminent non-Mormon interpreter of Mormonism combines her personal experiences among the Mormons with writing about this tradition she has been ...
In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few white men were present, only one of whom, John D. Lee, was actually named.
With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the background of...
In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were...
Political and religious turmoil in the late 1800s plagued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. As Utah statehood loomed, Congress aggressively moved against Mormons who engaged in polygamy. One of those who went into hiding in 1879 was Wilford Woodruff, who became church president in 1887. This never-before-published collection of Woodruff's letters to the Atkins, edited by Reid L. Neilson, reveals the church leader's political and spiritual conflicts in the five years leading up to his 1890 Manifesto, which officially disallowed polygamy.
Political and religious turmoil in the late 1800s plagued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its leaders. As Utah statehood loomed, C...
