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Book

English

Bushman, Richard L.

Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling

New York

Knopf

2005

740

[2006 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]
[2005 Association for Mormon Letters Winner for Best Biography]

The book gives more attention to Joseph Smith's innovative religious thought than any previous biography. As Bushman writes, "His followers derived their energy and purpose from the religious world he brought into being." Some of the teachings were controversial, such as property redistribution and plural marriage, but Smith's revelations also delved into cosmology and the history of God. They spoke of the origins of the human personality and the purpose of life. While thoroughly Christian, Smith radically reconceived the relationship between humans and God. The book evaluates the Mormon prophet's bold contributions to Christian theology and situates him culturally in the modern world.

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"A Forced Abstinence" : Negotiating Orthodoxy and the Emergence of Mormon Teetotalism
"A Negro Preacher" : The Worlds of Elijah Ables
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
"A Uniformity So Complete" : Early Mormon Angelology
"All Things Unto Me Are Spiritual" : Worship Through Corporeality in Hasidism and Mormonism
"How Thankful We Should Be to Know the Truth" : Zebedee Coltrin's Witness of the Heavenly Origins of Temple Ordinances
"I saw the Lord" : Joseph's First Vision Combined from Nine Accounts
"It Seems That All Nature Mourns"Sally Randall's Response to the Murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
"No True Religion without True Science" : Science and the Construction of Mormon
Whiteness
"Our Religion Is Not Hostile to Real Science" : Evolution, Eugenics, and Race/Religion-Making in Mormonism's First Century

"Saviors on Mount Zion" : Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead
"Securing" the Prophet's Copyright in the Book of Mormon : Historical and Legal Context for the So-called Canadian Copyright Revelation
"Standing Where Your Heroes Stood" : Using Historical Tourism to Create American and Religious Identities
"Tempered for Glory" : Brigham Young's Cosmological Theodicy
"That Most Important of All Books" : A Printing History of The Book of Mormon
"The Spirit of The Place" The Clifford Family and The Joseph Smith Memorial Farm
"The Wars and the Perplexities of the Nations" : Reflections on early Mormonism, violence, and the state
"Thou Wast Willing to Lay Down Thy Life for thy Brethren" : Zion's Blessings in the Early Church
"Will the Murderers Be Hung?" : Albert Brown's 1844 Letter and the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith
'Skin' or 'Scales' of Blackness? Semitic Context as Interpretive Aid for 2 Nephi 4 : 35 (LDS 5 : 21)
A "Distinction Between Mormons and Americans" : Mormon Indian Missionaries, Federal Indian Policy, and the Utah War
A Behaviorist Looks at Joseph
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
A Documentary Note on a Letter to Joseph Smith. Romance, Death, and Polygamy : The Life and Times of Susan Hough Conrad and Lorenzo Dow Barnes
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
A Historical Note on Joseph Smith's 1836 Visit to the East India Marine Society Museum in Salem ,Massachusetts
A History of NaHoM
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
A Member of the Family : Dr. John Milton Bernhisel and the Aftermath of the Death of Joseph Smith
A Missionary Family : Mormon Lives of the Carter Clan of Benson, Vermont
A New Pneumatology : Comparing Joseph Smith's Doctrine of the Spirit with His Contemporaries and the Bible
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Response to Grant Palmer's "Sexual Allegations against Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Polygamy in Nauvoo"
Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
American Indians and the Nauvoo-Era Council of Fifty
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
An "American Mahomet" : Joseph Smith, Muhammad, and the Problem of Prophets in Antebellum America
Angels in the Age of Railways
Another Look at Joseph Smith's First Vision
Are Jesus and Satan Brothers? A Short Exploration in Mormon Christology
Art and Artifice : The Role of Memoir in Mormon Identity Formation
Assessing the Broad Impact of Jack Welch's Discovery of Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon
Balancing Faith and History : A Conversation with James B. Allen
Beyond Nauvoo : Discovering the Reorganized Church Story Again for the First Time
Biographers and the Mormon "Prophet Puzzle" : 1974 to 2004
Biography in Mormon Studies
Black, White, and Red All Over : Skin Color in the Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Minimalists and the NHM Inscriptions : A Response to Dan Vogel
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Canadian Mormons : History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Catholic-Mormon Relations
Changing Portraits of the Elect Lady : Emma Smith in Non-Mormon, RLDS, and LDS Historiography, 1933-2005
Changing Revelatory Messages : A Mormon Example
Charting the Future of Brigham Young University : Franklin S Harris and the Changing Landscape of the Church's Educational Network, 1921-1926
Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon
Curses and Marks : Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith's Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham


Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
Dream Mines and Religious Identity in Twentieth-Century Utah : Insights from the Norman C. Pierce Papers
Early Mormon Marriage, Family, and Networks of Kinship : Begets and horizontal Genealogy in the Case of the Later Cutlerites at Nauvoo
Early Mormon Priesthood Revelations : Text, Impact, and Evolution
Early Mormonism and the Re-enchantment of Antebellum Historical Thought
Egyptian Papyri and the Book of Abraham : Some Questions and Answers
Embodiment in Mormon Thought : Ambiguity, Contradiction and Consensus
Embracing the Law Reading Doctrine and Covenants 42
Emmeline B. Wells : An Intimate History
Encouraging Joseph Smith to Practice Plural Marriage : The Accounts of the Angel with a Drawn Sword
Eternal Progression : Mormonism and American Progressivism
Ex-Mormon Narratives and Pastoral Apologetics
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith's Pre-Nauvoo Reputation
Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
Freemasonry and the Origins of Modern Temple Ordinances
From Peoplehood to Church Membership : Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Gender Differences in the Early Patriarchal Blessings of the LDS Church, 1834-1845
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake : George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
God, the World, and the Long Journey to Divinity : Mormonism and German Romantic Idealism
Historical Reflections on Mormon Futures
Identifying Joseph Smith's Plural Wives

In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In Search of Mormon Identity : Mormon Culture, Gospel Culture, and an American Worldwide Church
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Is Joseph Smith Relevant to the Community of Christ?
Is the Book of Mormon a Pseudo-Archaic Text?
Jesus Christ, Eternal God : Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter
John C. Bennett and Joseph Smith's Polygamy : Addressing the Question of Reliability

John Milton, Joseph Smith, and The Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith As a Creative Interpreter of the Bible
Joseph Smith Jr. : Reappraisals After Two Centuries
Joseph Smith and Hearty Repentance
Joseph Smith and the Development of Habeas Corpus in Nauvoo, 1841-44
Joseph Smith and the Gift of Translation : The Development of Discourse About Spiritual Gifts During the Early Book of Mormon Translation Process (1828-1829)
Joseph Smith and the Recovery of "Eternal Man"
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 a Creative Interpreter of the Bible
Joseph Smith as the Philosopher-King : Neoplatonism in Early Mormon Political Thought
Joseph Smith's Ambiguous Legacy : Gender, Race, and Ethnicity as Dynamics for Schism Within Mormonism after 1844
Joseph Smith's Childhood Illness
Joseph Smith's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit Contrasted with Cartwright, Campbell, Hodge, and Finney
Joseph Smith's First Vision : New Methods for the Analysis of Experience-Related Texts
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph Smith, Jr., and 'The Notorious Case of Aaron Lyon' : Evidence of Earlier Doctrinal Development of Salvation for the Dead and a Trigger for the Practice of Polygamy
Joseph Smith, Robert Foster, and Chauncey and Francis Higbee
Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the American Renaissance : An Update
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Journalist Edmund Flagg's "Nauvoo Essay" : A Narrative Based on 1840 and 1844 Visits to Nauvoo and an Interview with Joseph Smith
Kirtland Temple : The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
Layered Lives : Boston Mormons and the Spatial Contexts of Conversion

Liahona : 'The Direction of the Lord' : An Etymological Explanation
Liberty to the Downtrodden : Thomas L. Kane, Romantic Reformer
Making a Case for Church History
Making the Absent Visible : The Real, Ideal, and the Abstract in Mormon Art
Marriage and Divorce in Islamic and Mormon Polygamy : A Legal Comparison
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Missourian Efforts to Extradite Joseph Smith and the Ethics of Governor Thomas Reynolds of Missouri
Mormon Accommodation
Mormon Canonizing Authority and Women's Gender Theologies, 1890-1942
Mormon Christianity : What Other Christians can learn from the Latter-day Saints
Mormon Commitment Mechanisms
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormonism and Wikipedia : The Church History That "Anyone Can Edit"
Mormonism and the Temple : Examining an Ancient Religious Tradition
Mormonism in the Methodist Marketplace : James Covel and the Historical Background of Doctrine and Covenants 39-40
Mormonism's Blacksmith Orator : B. H. Roberts at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
Mormonism's Problematic Racial Past and the Evolution of the Divine-Curse Doctrine
Mormons and Lineage : The Complicated History of Blacks and Patriarchal Blessings, 1830-2018
Moroni and the Swastika : Mormons in Nazi Germany
Mortal Enemies : Mormons and Missourians 1839-1844
Naturalistic Explanations of the Origin of the Book of Mormon : A Longitudinal Study
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
None Can Deliver : Imagining Lamanites and Feeling Mormon, 1837-1847
Not for Tourists
Now That We Have the Words of Joseph Smith, How Shall We Begin to Understand Them? Illustrations of Selected Challenges within the 21 May 1843 Discourse on 2 Peter 1
On Mormon Laughter
On the "Underground" : What the Mormon "Yes on 8" Campaign Reveals About the Future of Mormons in American Political Life
Opening the Windows of Heaven : The Bickertonite Spiritual Revival 1856–1858
Parallel Paths : LDS General Conference and Mormon History
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Pearl of Great Price Reference Companion
Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Persecution, Memory, and Mormon Identity in Parley Pratt's Autobiography
Playing Lamanite : Ecstatic Performance of American Indian Roles In Early Mormon Ohio

Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
Preserving Peculiarity as a People : Mormon Distinctness in Lived Values and Internal Structure
Prophecy and History : Structuring the Abridgment of the Nephite Records
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Raising The Dead, Mormons, Evangelicals, and Miracles in America
Re-Examining the Adams/Quincy May 1844 Visit to Nauvoo
Real Native Genius :
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Reassessing Joseph Smith Jr.'s Formal Education
Reckoning with History : Richard Bushman, George Marsden, and the Art of Biography
Reckoning with Race in the Book of Mormon : A Review of Literature
Reclaiming Reality : Doctoring and Discipleship in a Hyperconnected Age
Reflections on the Relationship Between Biography and History : What Val Might Have Said
Religion in American Life : A Short History (Updated Edition)
Religion of a Different Color : Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Road to Martyrdom : Joseph Smith's Last Legal Cases
Robert Newton Baskin and the Making of Modern Utah
Sacred Borders : Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America
School of the Prophet : Joseph Smith Learns the First Principles, 1820-1830
Search for Asylum : The Mormons Petition the Kentucky Governor, 1845
Search for Zarahemla, 1900 : Expeditioneer Parley Pratt Nelson

Seeking an Inheritance : Mormon Mobility, Urbanity, and Community
Subjective Objects : "The Book of Pukei" and Early Critical Response to The Book of Mormon
Succession by Seniority : The Development of Procedural Precedents, in the LDS Church
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
The 'Beautiful Death' In the Smith Family
The Ancient Order and the New Measures : Early Mormon Temple Worship and Finneyite Revivalism
The Book of Mormon as the Keystone of Church Administration
The Book of Mormon, the Early Nineteenth-Century Debates over Universalism, and the Development of the Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments
The Book, the Words of the Book : What the Book of Mormon Says about Its Own Coming Forth
The Consequential Counselor : Restoring the Root(s) of Jesse Gause
The Council of Fifty and Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions
The Curious Case of Joseph Howard, Palmyra's Seventeen-Year-Old Somnium Preacher

The Encounter of the Young Joseph Smith with Presbyterianism
The Fall of Kirtland : The Doctrine and Covenants' Role in Reaffirming Joseph
The Final Episode of Mormonism in Missouri in the 1830s : The Incarceration of the Mormon Prisoners at Richmond and Columbia Jails, 1838-1839
The Forgotten Story of Nauvoo Celestial Marriage
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Four Discourses of Mormonism
The Ghost of Eternal Polygamy : Haunting the Hearts and Heaven of Mormon Women and Men
The Gold Plates and Ancient Metal Epigraphy
The Habeas Corpus Protection of Joseph Smith from Missouri Arrest Requisitions
The Hermeneutics of Generosity : A Critical Approach to the Scholarship of Richard Bushman
The History of the Name of the Savior’s Church : A Collaborative and Revelatory Process
The Infallibility Trap : The Sacralisation of Religious Authority
The Inner Joseph Smith
The Inspired Fictionalization of the 1835 United Firm Revelations
The Intellectual Cultures of Mormonism : Faith, Reason, and the Apologetic Enterprise
The Journals of George Q. Cannon : Hawaiian Mission, 1850-1854
The Kingdom and the Church : The Anointed, the Fifty, and Alpheus Cutler's Claims
The Last Days of Joseph and Hyrum Smith : A Chronology
The Latter-day Saints, the Doughnut, and Post-Christian Canada
The Making of Modern Scripture : Latter-day Saints and the Book of Commandments and Revelations
The Mapmakers of New Zion : A Cartographic History of Mormonism
The Mormon Church and Blacks : A Documentary History
The Mormon Image in the American Mind : Fifty Years of Public Perception
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 Mormon Tabernacle Choir : A Biography
The Mormons of the World : The Meaning of LDS Membership in Central America
The Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments as First Revealed in The Vision : Some Observations on History, Sources, and Interpretation
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Pearl of Greatest Price : Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
The Polygamous Wives Writing Club : From the Diaries of Mormon Pioneer Women
The Power and Form of Godliness : Methodist Conversion Narratives and Joseph Smith's First Vision
The Prophet and the Reformer : The Letters of Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
The Religious Heritage of the British Northwest and the Rise of Mormonism
The Rocky Road to Prophethood : William Bickerton's Emergence as an American Prophet
The Second Sacred Grove : The Influence of Greenville, Indiana, on Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision Account
The Strengths and Challenges of Contemporary Marriages of Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Struggle for Female Authority in Biblical and Mormon Theology
The Textual Development of D&C 130:22 and the Embodiment of the Holy Ghost
The True Policy for Utah : Servitude, Slavery, and "An Act in Relation to Service"
Theory and Interpretation in Mormon Studies
Thomas F. O'Dea : The New Spirit and Science of Mormon Studies
Thomas Ford and Joseph Smith, 1842-1844
Timing the Translation of the Book of Mormon : “Days [and Hours] Never to Be Forgotten”
To Insinuate All Ideas and Inevitably Mislead Historical Judgment : Epistemological Metaphor in Mormon Biography
To Mend A Fractured Reality : Joseph Smith's Project
To the "Honest and Patriotic Sons of Liberty" : Mormon Appeals for Redress and Social Justice, 1843-44
Toward a Catholic History of Mormonism
Toward a Mormon Jurisprudence
Toward a Mormon Sense of Time
Toward the Naturalistic Roots of The Book of Mormon : The Solomon Spalding Manuscript, William H. Whitsitt, The Book of Ether, and Psychological Considerations
Transformation of the Mormon Hierarchy at Far West, Missouri
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
Us-Them Tribalism and Early Mormonsim
Vox Joseph Vox Dei : Regarding Some of the Moral and Ethical Aspects of Joseph Smtih's Practice of Plural Marriage
Walking on Water : Nineteenth-Century Prophets and a Legend of Religious Imposture
What Jane James Saw
What We Will Do Now That New Mormon History is Old : A Roundtable
What's Love Got to Do with It? A New Turner Thesis
When Joseph Smith Met Martin Van Buren : Mormonism and the Politics of Religious Liberty in Nineteenth-Century America
Where in Cincinnati Was the Third Edition of the Book of Mormon Printed?
Witnesses : Those Who Assist to Bring Forth This Work
Women and Mormonism : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity
“Effusions of an Enthusiastic Brain” : Joseph Smith’s First Vision and the Limits of Experiential Religion