The Mormon people : the making of an American faith / Matthew Bowman.
Bowman, Matthew Burton.
2012
BX8611 .B695 2012 (Mapit)
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Title The Mormon people : the making of an American faith / Matthew Bowman.
Author Bowman, Matthew Burton.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780679644903 (alk. paper)
0679644903 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Random House, c2012.
Language English
Description xxi, 328 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number BX8611 .B695 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 289.309
Summary With Mormonism on the verge of an unprecedented cultural and political breakthrough, an eminent scholar of American evangelicalism explores the history and reflects on the future of this native-born American faith and its connection to the life of the nation. In 1830, a young seer named Joseph Smith began organizing adherents into a new religious community that would come to be called the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (known informally as the Mormons). Here, religious historian Matthew Bowman presents more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the church's origin and development, explains how Mormonism came to be one of the fastest-growing religions in the world by the turn of the 21st century, and sets the scene for a 2012 presidential election that has the potential to mark a major turning point in the way this faith is perceived by the wider American public--and internationally.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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Joseph Smith and the first Mormons: to 1831
Little Zions: 1831-1839
City of Joseph: 1839-1846
Come, come, ye saints: 1846-1877
The rise and fall of plural marriage: 1852-1896
Eternal progression: 1890-1945
Correlation: 1945-1978
Toward a global church: 1978-2011.

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