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University of Illinois Press
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[1984]
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English
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The core of Mormon belief was a conviction about actual events. The test of faith was not adherence to a certain confession of faith but belief that Christ was resurrected, that Joseph Smith saw God, that the Book of Mormon was true history and not philosophy, and that Peter, James, and John restored the apostleships.
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Brides of Gabriel volume 1
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2010
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English
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Wealthy Mormon convert Mary Rose and shipbuilder Gabriel make their way to a new Mormon settlement, where Prophet Joseph Smith's edicts about polygamy lead Gabriel to take additional wives and Mary Rose to question her faith.
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2003
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English
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Inside isolated American communities, some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists still practice polygamy--defying both civil authorities, and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City. At the core of Krakauer's book are the brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a woman and her baby daughter. Meticulously researching this double murder, Krakauer uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest growing religion,...
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2012
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English
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Stephen Mansfield, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, has highlighted the growing popularity of Mormonism, a belief system with cultic roots, and the implications of its critical rise. Mormons are moving into the spotlight in pop culture, politics, sports, and entertainment via presidential candidates like Romney and Huntsman, media personality Glenn Beck, mega-bestselling “Twilight” author Stephanie Meyer, and “The Book of Mormon”,...
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2020
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English
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"An extraordinary story of faith and violence in nineteenth-century America, based on previously confidential documents from the Mormon Church. Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or marginalized polygamists unworthy of serious examination. In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park excavates the brief, tragic life of a lost Mormon city, demonstrating that the Mormons are essential to understanding...
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2017
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English
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Presents a revelatory and deeply intimate exploration of the world of early Mormon women that draws on nineteenth-century diaries, letters, albums, minute-books, and quilts created by first-generation Latter-Day Saints.
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2012
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English
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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical expose, John Turner...
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1966
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English
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The Book of Mormon is a translation of golden tablets given to Joseph Smith who wrote of their account of a plan for salvation and what men must do to gain peace in this life and eternal redemption in the life to come. Smith received these golden plates from Mormon's son Moroni who was dead but considered glorified and resurrected on September 21, 1823. Smith said he was instructed by God to provide the rendering of these documents into the English...
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Excel Entertainment Group
Publication Date
[2005]
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English
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When the Steed family relocates to upstate New York from their home in Vermont, religious strife threatens to destroy their close-knit relationship. The situation grows increasingly dire when both sons fall for the daughter of a wealthy merchant.
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2001
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English
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Judy Robertson shares her unique insider's viewpoint as a woman in the Mormon church. After she and her husband rediscovered God's truth, they faced torment and persecution upon leaving the LDS church. This reader-friendly book is one of the few Christian books that focuses first on an individual's journey from Mormonism rather than on theology or Christian doctrines. The revised edition includes testimonies of others who have left the Mormon church...
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2008
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English
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In this shocking, timely, and inspirational memoir, Elissa Wall details her life growing up in the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints religious sect, being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of 14, and her courage to testify against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.--From publisher description.
13) Saints
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2001
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English
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From the bestselling author of the Ender Universe series comes Orson Scott Card's epic historical novel Saints
When ten-year-old Dinah Kirkham saw her father leave their Manchester home in the middle of the night, she basked when he would be back. "Soon," he replied. But he never came back. On that night in 1829, John Kirkham laid the foundation of his daughter's certainty that the only person Dinah could ever really trust was herself.
From that...
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1981
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English
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"The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible. It is a record of God's dealings with ancient inhabitants of the Americas and contains the fulness of the everlasting gospel. The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation. Their words, written on gold plates, were quoted and abridged by a prophet-historian named Mormon. The record gives an account of two great civilizations. One came...
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