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Underwood, Grant

The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

1993

[1994 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]

"Over the years, Mormonism has been accounted for in various ways. This study applies the results of recent scholarship in apocalyptic and millenarian movements to the early Latter-day Saints and shows them to have been profoundly influenced by such views. In contrast to previous interpretations, the pervasiveness of millenarianism in early Mormon thought is demonstrated. A social as well as soteriological dualism growing out of their apocalyptic ideals is explored, and their millenarian exegesis of prophecy is portrayed in detail. Finally, Mormons are compared with Millerites to distinguish them from other contemporary millenarian groups, and the LDS experience in England is examined to show that Mormon millenarianism was not merely an American phenomenon." [Author's abstract]

Award Winner
British Isles, 19th century
Social and cultural history, 19th century
Comparative religion, millenarianism
Doctrinal history, millenarianism
Doctrinal history, millenarianism, American setting

A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
A History of the Concepts of Zion and New Jerusalem in America from Early Colonialism to 1835 with a Comparison to the Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-First Century
A Kingdom Transformed : Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church
Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith
Alexander Campbell : Another Restorationist
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
'Among These Dark Satanic Mills' : Britain as Babylon
Ancient Christians: An Introduction for Latter-day Saints
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Pentecostal Reads the Book of Mormon : A Literary and Theological Introduction
Attempting to Situate Joseph Smith
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
A Word in Season: Isaiah's Reception in the Book of Mormon
Becoming the American Religion : The Place of Mormonism in the Development of American Religious Historiography
Before The Manifesto : The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris
Between Pulpit and Pew : The Supernatural World in Mormon History and Folklore
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
"Bringing Forth" the Book of Mormon: Translation as the Reconfiguration of Bodies in Space-Time
Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
"Build, Therefore, Your Own World" : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Smith, and American Antebellum Thought
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Charter for Statehood : The Story of Utah's State Constitution
Christ Comes to Jackson County : The Mormon City of Zion and Its Consequences
Clyde Forsberg's Equal Rites and the Exoticizing of Mormonism
Digging in Cumorah : Reclaiming Book of Mormon narratives
Discourses in Mormon Theology : Philosophical and Theological Possibilities
Divine Providence : The Wreck and Rescue of the Julia Ann
Documents
Documents, Volume 4: April 1834-September 1835
Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Early Mormon and Shaker Visions of Sanctified Community
Early Mormon Missionary Activities in Japan, 1901-1924
Emergent Mormonism in Context
Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
Equal Rites : The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
"Female Brethren" : Gender Dynamics in a Newly Integrated Missionary Force, 1898-1915
Foundations of the Restoration: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857–1907
Frontier Religion : Mormons and America, 1857-1907
Gender Differences in the Early Patriarchal Blessings of the LDS Church, 1834-1845
'Give Up All and Follow Your Lord' : Testimony and Exhortation in Early Mormon Women's Letters, 1831-1839
Global Mormonism : A Historical Overview
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
God and the People Reconsidered : Further Reflections on Theodemocracy in Early Mormonism
God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
“Have We Not Had a Prophet Among Us?” : Joseph Smith’s Civil War Prophecy
Historical Reflections on Mormon Futures
Holy Races : Race in the Formation of Mormonism and the Nation of Islam
How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith: The 49th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
"I Cannot Refrain from Testifying" : Edith Mary Turpin's Observations about Mormonism and Plural Marriage
Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
Indians, Mestizos, and Parley P. Pratt's Chilean Mission
In Harmony? Perceptions of Mormonism in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In Search of Ephraim : Traditional Mormon Conceptions of Lineage and Race
In Search of Mormon Identity : Mormon Culture, Gospel Culture, and an American Worldwide Church
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Isolationism, Exceptionalism, and Acculturation : The Internationalisation of Mormon Education in Mexico
It’s Not the End of the World; It’s Just the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Book of Mormon
Jews in LDS Thought
Joseph Fielding Smith: A Mormon Theologian
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon: Co-Founders of a Movement
Joseph Smith and the Making of a Global Religion
Joseph Smith and the United Firm : The Growth and Decline of the Church's First Master Plan of Business and Finance, Ohio and Missouri, 1832-1834
Joseph Smith as the Philosopher-King : Neoplatonism in Early Mormon Political Thought
Joseph Smith for President : The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom
Joseph Smith in Hermeneutical Crisis
Joseph Smith's 1891 Millennial Prophecy : The Quest for Apocalyptic Deliverance
Just How "Scandalous" is the Golden Plates Story? : Academic Discourse on the Origin of the Book of Mormon
Kirtland Temple : The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
Knowing Brother Joseph Again : Perceptions and Perspectives
Knowing Why: 137 Evidences that the Book of Mormon is True
LDS Church Presidency Years
LDS Church Presidency Years, 1985-1994
'Learned' and 'Unlearned' Reading in The Book of Mormon
Let's Talk About Polygamy
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Making Lamanites : Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
More Than an Index : The First Reference Guide to the Doctrine and Covenants as a Window into Early Mormonism
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Hermeneutics: Five Approaches to the Bible by the LDS Church
Mormon History
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormonism in Europe : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Mormonism's Raveling and Unraveling of a Geopolitical Thread
Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
Moroni : Angel or Treasure Guardian?
"My Principality on Earth Began" : Millennialism and the Celestial Kingdom in the Development of Mormon Doctrine
National Culture, Personality, and Theocracy in the Early Mormon Culture of Violence
Nephites and Israelites : The Book of Mormon and the Hebraic Indian Theory
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America
One Side By Himself : The Life and Times of Lewis Barney 1808-1894
On Signifiers and Signified: Terryl Givens and Twenty-First-Century Book of Mormon Studies
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Playing Lamanite : Ecstatic Performance of American Indian Roles In Early Mormon Ohio
"Playing the Whore" : The Domestic and Sexual Politics of Mormon Missionary Work on Tahiti Nui and in the Tuamotus
Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
Poles Apart? A Look at Mormon Doctrine in Light of Historic Christianity
Popular Mormon Millennialism in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Prelude to the Restoration : Apostasy to the Restored Church
Proclaim Peace: The Restoration's Answer to an Age of Conflict
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Race and Gender in Mormonism: 1830-1978
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Relational Faith: The Transformation and Restoration of Pistis as Knowledge, Trust, Confidence, and Covenantal Faithfulness
Revelations in Context: The Stories Behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants
Reviving the Millennial Kingdom : Mormons, Morrisites, and Massacre
Rewriting Eden With The Book of Mormon : Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
"Shake Off the Dust of Thy Feet" : The Rise and Fall of Mormon Ritual Cursing
"Smoot Smites Smut" : Apostle-Senator Reed Smoot's 1930 Campaign against Obscene Books
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Some Reflections on the Revelation of John in Mormon Thought : Past, Present, and Future
'Something Was Wanting' : The Meteoric Career of John Greenbow, Mormon Propagandist
Stand By My Servant Joseph : The Story of the Joseph Knight Family and the Restoration
Storming the Nation : The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
Testimony and Theology : The Mormon Struggle with America's Civil Religion
The Ascendancy and Legitimation of the Pearl of Great Price
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse
The Book of Mormon as the Keystone of Church Administration
The Book of Mormon, Zion, and the Invisible Church
The Book of Moses: From the Ancient of Days to the Latter Days
The church family in nineteenth-century America : Mormonism and the public private divide
The Concept of a Rejected Gospel in Mormon History, Part 1
The Culture of Violence in Joseph Smith’s Mormonism
The Diaries of Mary Lois Walker Morris, 1879-1887
The Doctrinal and Commitment Functions of Patriarchal Blessings in Early Mormon Development
The Encounter of the Young Joseph Smith with Presbyterianism
The Establishment and Redemption of Zion
The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
The Gathering Place : An Illustrated History of Salt Lake City
The Gathering : Revelation and Adaptation
The History and Acquisition of the Original Temple Lot Property in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
The Israelite Roots of Atonement Terminology
The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Vol. 12: March 1843 - July 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 10 : May–August 1842
The Joseph Smith Papers: Documents Volume 15: 16 May-28 June 1844
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 2 : July 1831–January 1833
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 5 : October 1835–January 1838
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 6 : February 1838–August 1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 7 : September 1839–January 1841
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 8 : February–November 1841
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 1 : 1832–1839
The Kingdom and the Church : The Anointed, the Fifty, and Alpheus Cutler's Claims
The Long Honeymoon : Jan Shipps Among the Mormons
The Morley Settlement in Illinois, 1839-1846 : Tribe and Clan in a Nauvoo Mormon Community
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures : The First Twenty Years
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Quest for Glory : The religious world of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormons, the Victorians, and the Idea of Greater Britain
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Past and Future of the Temple Lot in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
The Politicization of Religious Dissent : Mormonism in Upper Canada, 1833-1843
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Saints and the State: The Mormon Troubles in Illinois
The Site of Mormon Political Theology
The Social-Historical Context of Mormon Beliefs
The Temple Lot at Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
The 'Unidentified Pioneers' : An Analysis of Staffordshire Mormons, 1837 to 1870
The Use of "Lamanite" in Official LDS Discourses
The Waldensian Valleys : Seeking "Primitive Christianity," in Italy
"The Wars and the Perplexities of the Nations" : Reflections on early Mormonism, violence, and the state
The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations : Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity
The Worlds of Joseph Smith : A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress
The Worldwide Church : Mormonism as a Global Religion
“The Writing of the Fruit of Thy Loins” : Reading, Writing, and Prophecy in The Book of Mormon
"Thou Art the Christ, the Son of the Living God" : The Person and Work of Jesus in the New Testament
Thunder From the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
To Fill up the World : Joseph Smith as Urban Planner
Toward a Mormon Sense of Time
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
True and Faithful : Joseph Fielding Smith as Mormon Historian and Theologian
Two Restoration Traditions : Mormons and Churches of Christ in the Nineteenth Century
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
Unveiling Revelation and a Landmark Commentary Series
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
"War and Confusion in Babylon" : Mormon Reaction to German Unification, 1864—80
Watchman on the Tower : Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
"We Do Not Make Fun of Any Religion in My Newspapers" : The Beaverbrook Press Coverage of Mormon Stories in Britain, 1912-1964
We'll Sing and We'll Shout: The Life and Times of William W. Phelps
"We'll Sing and We'll Shout!" : Who is the Real W. W. Phelps?
“We’re Going to Take Our Land Back Over” : Indigenous Positionality, the Ethnography of Reading, and The Book of Mormon
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
Will Things Get Better or Worse Before the Second Coming?: Are Latter-day Saints Premillenarians or Postmillenarians?
Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon
Zionic Nonviolence as Christian Worship and Praxis

A Bibliography of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New York, Ohio, and Missouri
A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
Adam-ondi-Ahman : A Brief Historical Survey
A Demographic Portrait of the Mormons, 1830-1980
After 150 Years : The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective
A Good Time Coming : Mormon Letters to Scotland
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Clay County, Missouri, from 1833 to 1837
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836 to 1839
A Kingdom Transformed : Themes in the Development of Mormonism
An Historical Study of the Origin and Character of Indigenous Hymn Tunes of the Latter-day Saints
An Interpretive Study of Mormon Millennialism during the Nineteenth Century with Emphasis on Millennial Developments in Utah
"A Plainer Translation": Joseph Smith's Translation of the Bible : A History and Commentary
Assimilation and Ambivalence : The Mormon Reaction to Americanization
A Study of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Upper Canada, 1830-1850
Atchison's Letters and the Causes of Mormon Expulsion from Missouri
A Voice from Jerusalem
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
'By the Hands of Wise Men' : Essays on the U.S. Constitution
Comprehensive Bibliography of Social Science Literature on the Mormons
Cradling Mormonism : The Rise of the Gospel in Early Victorian England
Delusions : An Analysis of the Book of Mormon ; with an Examination of Its internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its pretences to Divine Authority
Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings of Joseph Fielding Smith
Early Mormon Confrontations with Sectarianism, 1830-40
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormon Pamphleteering
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Expectations Westward : The Mormons and the Emigration of Their British Converts in the Nineteenth Century
'Heirs according to the Promise' : Observations on Ethnicity, Race and Identity in the Two Factions of Nineteenth-century Mormonism
Herbal Remedies : God's Medicine?
Homeward to Zion : The Mormon Migration from Scandinavia
How Long O Lord? The Delay of the Parousia in Mormonism
Independence, Missouri, and the Mormons, 1827-1833
'It Seems Like Heaven Began on Earth' : Joseph Smith and the Constitution of the Kingdom of God
Jackson County, 1831-1833 : A Look at the Development of Zion
John Taylor's Religious Preparation
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Millenarian Time Table
Joseph Smith's 19 July 1840 Discourse
Joseph Smith's Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question
Journal of Heber C. Kimball
Learning to Play : The Mormon Way and the Way of Other Americans
Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle; the Father and Founder of the British Mission
Masonry and Mormonism in Utah, 1847-1984
Medicine and the Mormons : An Introduction to the History of Latter-day Saint Health Care
Men with a Mission : The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles 1837-1841
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism
Mormonism and Freemasonry : The Illinois Episode
Mormonism and Masonry
Mormonism and Music : A History
Mormonism and the American Frontier
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism on the Defensive : Far West, 1838-1839
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unveiled : Zion's Watchman Unmasked
Mormon Persecutions in Missouri, 1833
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Polygamy : A Review Article
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons in Early Victorian Britain
Neither White nor Black : Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church
New Views of Mormon History : A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington
Nineteenth-Century Mormons : The New Israel
Parley P. Pratt : Father of Mormon Pamphleteering
'Plucking Not Planting' : Mormonism in Eastern Canada 1830-1850
Prelude to the Kingdom : Mormon Desert Conquest, a Chapter in American Cooperative Experience
Priesthood and Church Government
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Reflections on the Founding and Purpose of the Mormon History Association, 1965-1983
Religious Enthusiasm in Vermont, 1761-1847
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Saints, Slaves, and Blacks : The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism
Scholarly Studies of Mormonism in the Twentieth Century
Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
Seeking the 'Remnant' : The Native American during the Joseph Smith Period
Selective Bibliography on African-Americans and Mormons 1830-1990
Solemn Covenant : The Mormon Polygamous Passage
Some Comparative Perspectives on the Early Mormon Movement and the Church-State Question, 1830-1845
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
Survey : The Historiography of Mormonism
Ten Years in Camelot : A Personal Memoir
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The American Quest for the Primitive Church
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Book of Mormon, 1830-1979 : A Publishing History
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The Catholic Apostolic Church and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : A Comparative Study of Two Minority Millenarian Groups in Nineteenth-Century England
The Church in the Twentieth Century
The City in the Garden : Social Conflict in Jackson County, Missouri
The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945
The Danite Band of 1838
The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony
The Ebb and Flow of Mormonism in Scotland, 1840-1900
The Election Day Battle at Gallatin
The Expanding Church
The Gathering of Zion : The Story of the Mormon Trail
The Haun's Mill Massacre
The Heavens Resound : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838
The Historical Development of the Doctrine and Covenants
The King Follett Discourse : Textual History and Criticism
The Land Question at Adam-ondi-Ahman
The Life of John Taylor, Third President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri : An Egyptian Endowment
The Millennial Hymns of Parley Parker Pratt
The Missouri Redress Petitions : A Reappraisal of Mormon Persecutions in Missouri
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Gathering
The Mormon Presence in Canada
The Mormons and the Bible in the 1830s
The Mormons as a Theme in Western Historical Writing
The Mormons in the Mountain West : A Selected Bibliography
The Mormon Tradition
The 'New Social History' and the 'New Mormon History' : Reflections on Recent Trends
The Orson Pratt Journals
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 1: Autobiographical and Historical Writings
The Persistence of Mormon Community into the 1990s
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century
The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
The Relationship of 'Mormonism' and Freemasonry
The Restoration Movement : Essays in Mormon History
The Role of Christian Primitivism in the Origin and Development of the Mormon Kingdom, 1830-1844
The Role of Hymnody in the Development of the Latter-day Saint Movement
The Social Origins of the Kirtland Mormons
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness : Sidney Rigdon, Religious Reformer, 1793-1876
The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Writing of Latter-day Saint History : Problems, Accomplishments and Admonitions
Toward a New Mormon History : An Examination of the Literature of the Latter-day Saints in the Far West
Transformation of Charisma in the Mormon Church : A History of the Office of Presiding Patriarch, 1833-1979
Trials of Discipleship : The Story of William Clayton, a Mormon
Truth Will Prevail : The Rise of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles 1837-1987
Two Rare Missouri Documents
Utah's History
'Walls, Grates, and Screeking Iron Doors' : The Prison Experience of Mormon Leaders in Missouri, 1838-1839
Why Are Mormons So Susceptible to Medical and Nutritional Quackery?
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Zion is Fled : The Expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri