The Mormon passage of George D. Watt : : first British convert, scribe for Zion / / Ronald G. Watt.
Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly g...
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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| Summary: | Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly gained an international, if initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix brought it a roster of interesting characters: frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social engineers. Althoughthe Mormon elite soon took on, as |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 087421758X |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Ronald G. Watt. |