Item Detail
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24175
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Journal Article
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English
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Brown, Samuel
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The Early Mormon Chain of Belonging
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2011
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44
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Stanford, CA
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Dialogue Foundation
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2011
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1-52
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"Throughout his religious career, Joseph Smith expended considerable ritual, organizational, and intellectual energy in protecting human relationships from dissolution in the face of death. To effect this protection he extended the Great Chain of Being to familialize the entire cosmos, thereby recasting divine and angelic ontologies as he simultaneously divinized human beings. In this sacerdotal genealogy, protected and expanded by the temple and its associated rites'endowment, sealing, adoption, polygamy, and anointings'Smith announced to his followers a solution to death, one that mediated the contradictory demands of rising sentimentalism and the vast grandeur of patriarchal order." [From author's conclusion]
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