Item Detail
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2335
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Book
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English
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Buerger, David John
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Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
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San Francisco
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Smith Research Associates
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1994
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A veil of secrecy surrounds Mormon temple worship. While officially intended to preserve the sacredness of the experience, the silence leaves many Latter-day Saints mystified. What are the derivation and development of the holy endowment, and if these were known, would the experience be more meaningful? Modern parishioners lack context to interpret the arcane and syncretistic elements of the symbolism.
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36
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Meaning and Authority in Mormon Ritual
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The Anointed Quorum in Nauvoo 1842-45
The Earliest Eternal Sealings for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The History of LDS Temple Admission Standards
The Inspired Fictionalization of the 1835 United Firm Revelations
The Morley Settlement in Illinois, 1839-1846 : Tribe and Clan in a Nauvoo Mormon Community
The Mormon Gender-Inclusive Image of God
The Mormon Quest for Glory : The religious world of the Latter-day Saints
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
What the Mormon Cultural Landscape Can Teach Us
Zion as Fiction : Gender, Early RLDS Novels, and the Politics of Place