| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 291 pages :) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Belief -- pt. 2. The Book of Mormon and history -- pt. 3. Joseph Smith and culture. |
| Summary |
The eminent historian Richard Bushman here reflects on his faith and the history of his religion. By describing his own struggle to find a basis for belief in a skeptical world, Bushman poses the question of how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally invested. Does personal commitment make objectivity impossible? Bushman explicitly, and at points confessionally, explains his own commitments and then explores Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon from the standpoint of belief. Joseph Smith cannot be dismissed as a colorful fraud, Bushman argues, nor seen onl. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844.
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Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844. |
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Book of Mormon -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Book of Mormon. |
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Book of Mormon. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Neilson, Reid L., 1972-
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Woodworth, Jed.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bushman, Richard L. Believing history. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2003055289 |
| ISBN |
9780231529563 (electronic book) |
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0231529562 (electronic book) |
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0231130066 (alkaline paper) |
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9780231130073 |
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0231130074 |
| Music No. |
EB00640161 Recorded Books |
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