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English
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Comparative Images : Mormonism and Contemporary Religions as Seen by Village Newspapermen in Western New York and Northeastern Ohio, 1820-1833
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Brigham Young University
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Ph.D. diss.
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"The image of Mormonism circulated by the newspaper editors of Western New York and Northeastern Ohio from 1829 through 1833 was largely a false image arising, as the Mormons themselves insisted, from religious persecution. The religious biases of the period were pervasive in both civil and religious affairs and tensions strained the fabric of America's religious life. The village editors, like their village constituents, were imbued with the religious heritage of Puritan ancestors and viewed nearly every facet of their culture from a religious perspective. Their strict adherence to their ancestral faith bred in them a high intolerance for new religious traditions and especially for religionists who went beyond traditional religion by claiming revelation, prophecy, and heavenly manifestations. The image of Mormonism as fanaticism and delusion was disseminated widely throughout the states by a unique system of newspaper exchanges. Mormonism was not an isolated religion, but excited public curiosity in every state as a result of news reports emanating from New York and Ohio and written by newsmen who represented orthodox Christianity." [Author's abstract]
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Biographers and the Mormon "Prophet Puzzle" : 1974 to 2004
Documents
Early Publications on the Book of Mormon
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In the Press : Early Newspaper Reports on the Initial Publication of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith's Performance of Marriages in Ohio
The Joseph Smith Papers : Histories. Volume 2, Assigned Histories, 1831-1847
The Web of Print : Toward a History of the Book in Early Mormon Culture