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Neilson, Reid L.;Givens, Terryl L.;Broadhead, Richard H.

Prophets in America circa 1830 : Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nat Turner, Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith Jr. : Reappraisals after Two Centuries

Oxford, N.Y.

Oxford University Press

2009

13-29

This essay surveys forms of prophetism in America in the 1830s, and the various consequences they gave rise to. Broadhead uses the experiences of Joseph Smith and Nat Turner. Also discussed is the Mormon Church that gathered in and helped produce a distinctive social community.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Turner, Nat
Smith, Joseph, Jr., prophecies, American setting

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