| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 326 pages :) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Religion and American culture
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Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-310) and index. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Mormon-Masonic Nexus; Chapter 1: The Mormon-Masonic Nexus; Chapter 2: Was Joseph Smith a Mason?; Chapter 3: Dreaming Masonry: Getting the Story Plumb; Chapter 4: As The Words of a Book That Is Sealed: The Book of Mormon As Esoteric Male (Hi)Story; Chapter 5: Fleeing Babel With Mother and Child in Tow; Part II: The Quest Within the Quest; Chapter 6: A Bible! A Bible! We Have Got a Bible; Chapter 7: The Search For The Long Lost Book In The Book of Mormon; Chapter 8: What Manner of (Masonic) Men? |
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Part III: The Anti-Evangelical Mind of Joseph Smith Jr. Chapter 9: Whether a Man Can Enter a Second Time Into His Mother's Womb; Chapter 10: Heaven and Hell: Devining the Ghost of Emmanuel Swedenborg; Chapter 11: Father-Son and Holy Ghost-Mother? The Mormon-God Question; Part IV: The Millenial, Racial, Economic, and Political Confederacy; Chapter 12: Thy Kingdom Come: On Earth As It Is In Heaven; Chapter 13: Mormons and Jews; Chapter 14: The Curse and Redemption of the Lamanites: Salvation Bi-Race Alone; Chapter 15: The Economic Kingdom of God: Masonic Utopianism Unveiled; Postscript; Notes. |
| Summary |
Both the Prophet Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon have been characterized as ardently, indeed evangelically, anti-Masonic. Yet in this sweeping social, cultural, and religious history of nineteenth-century Mormonism and its milieu, Clyde Forsberg argues that masonry, like evangelical Christianity, was an essential component of Smith's vision. Smith's ability to imaginatively conjoin the two into a powerful and evocative defense of Christian, or Primitive, Freemasonry was, Forsberg shows, more than anything else responsible for the meteoric rise of Mormonism in the nineteenth century.<b. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Book of Mormon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Book of Mormon. |
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Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines -- History -- 19th century.
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Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Freemasonry -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches -- History -- 19th century.
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Freemasonry -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches. |
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Women -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches -- History of doctrines -- 19th century.
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Women -- Religious aspects -- Latter Day Saint churches. |
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United States -- Church history -- 19th century.
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United States. |
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Church history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Forsberg Jr., Clyde R. Equal Rites : The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231126403 |
| ISBN |
9780231507462 (electronic book) |
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0231507461 (electronic book) |
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0231126409 (alkaline paper) |
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9780231126403 |
| Music No. |
EB00662321 Recorded Books |
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