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2020, Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints' exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who practiced plural marriage. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt governments across the globe, particularly the tyrannical government of the United States. The infamous "White Horse Prophecy" referred to this coming American apocalypse as "a terrible revolutionEL in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be literally left without a supreme government." Mormons envisioned divine deliverance by way of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American cities and American people. For the Saints, these violent images promised a national rebirth that would vouchsafe the protections of the United States Constitution and end their oppression. In Terrible Revolution, Christopher James Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity. The responses of the church hierarchy to apocalyptic lay prophecies promoted their own form of separatist nationalism during the nineteenth century. Yet, after Utah obtained statehood, as the church sought to assimilate to national religious norms, these same leaders sought to lessen the tensions between themselves and American political and cultural powers. As a result, visions of a violent end to the nation became a liability to disavow and regulate. Ultimately, Blythe argues that the visionary world of early Mormonism, with its apocalyptic emphases, continued in the church's mainstream culture in modified forms but continued to maintain separatist radical forms at the level of folk-belief.
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Review: Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century edited by Patrick Q. Mason2018 •
Mormonism emerged in the atmosphere of 1820s American religious revivalism. This was a time when people in the United States became severely concerned over the eternal destiny of their souls in the afterlife, leading to the creation of numerous sectarian groups. The founder of Mormonism,Joseph Smith, remains a most controversial figure, regarded as a Prophet by his followers and widely seen as some sort of huckster by Americans at that time, and even today.
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John R. Farkas and David A. Reed. Mormonism: Changes, Contradictions, and Errors. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1995. 256 pp., with bibliogra. phy and index. $11.98. Reviewed by Craig L. Foster With their latest combined effort , authors John R. Farkas and David A. Reed have undertaken an impress ive task. They have, as they explain in their preface, taken up Joseph Fielding Smith's challenge to detect errors and contradictions of Mormonism through the "accepted standards of measurement, the sc riptures."\ Such an undertaking would be impressive for any scholar. At the minimum, a writer or writers would need a thorough background of Latter-day Saint history and an understanding of the complex.ities of an open canon and evolving doctrine. Indeed , something of this magnitude would encompass numerous primary and secondary works discussing not only Latter-day Saint but primitive Christian history and theology. It would also have to be an honest, unbiased, scholarly wo...
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Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion1992 •
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Beginning in the 1960s, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS [now Community of Christ]) has modified its understanding of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith’s prophetic charisms. Where the RLDS were earlier permitted to read the Book of Mormon as nineteenth-century fiction, they are now encouraged by their leaders to do so, though they are still permitted to find in it, if they wish, some inspiring passages. These changes have been resisted by a conservative minority that has lost the battle for control of the Reorganization and now tends to worship outside RLDS congregations. A few Latter-day Saints have also begun to read the Book of Mormon as fiction. Their efforts to turn the Book of Mormon into nineteenth-century fiction have been opposed by competent Latter-day Saint scholarship, though not without resistance from those who control independent and liberal publishing ventures. Title
Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
Review Essay: New Studies in Mormonism2006 •
98 Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Volume 9, Issue 4, pages 98–111, ISSN 1092-6690 (print), 1541–8480 (electronic). © 2006 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at www.ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. NR 904 02:28:2006 11:53 AM Page 98
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