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Quinn, D. Michael

The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power

Salt Lake City

Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates

1994

"My purpose in this study is to examine the evidence of Mormonism's social realities. Both believers and nonbelievers must remember that history can demonstrate human experience incompletely at best. However, many readers may be surprised to learn the details of early Mormonism's theological evolution, retroactive redefinition in sacred texts, internal conflicts among revered leaders, theocratic activities, militancy, alienation of formerly friendly non-Mormons, succession ambiguities, and violence against perceived enemies. These are as central to early Mormon experience as its visions, revelations, conversions, sacrifices, heroes, heroines, and martyrdoms. Whatever their perspective, all readers will find that the Mormon hierarchy has had a remarkable career in American society." [Author]

Danites
Nauvoo, Ill., miscellaneous
Ecclesiastical offices, First Presidency
Internal conflict, 19th century
Mormon thought, Kingdom of God
Illinois, politics
Illinois, places in
Priesthood
Temple ritual
Succession, LDS Presidency
Church-state relations, 19th century
Smith, Joseph, Jr., miscellaneous
Prosopography
Freemasonry
Elites
Ecclesiastical offices, Quorums of the Seventy
Ecclesiastical offices, Patriarch to the Church
Doctrinal history, authority
Council of Fifty
Administrative history, 19th century
Ecclesiastical offices, Presiding Bishopric
Ecclesiastical offices, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Rigdon, Sidney

Adoptive Sealing Ritual in Mormonism
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A Frontier Life : Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary
A House Full of Females : Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
A Mean Conspirator or "The Noblest of Men" : William Marks's Expulsion from Nauvoo
A Missionary Family : Mormon Lives of the Carter Clan of Benson, Vermont
Anabaptism, the Book of Mormon, and the Peace Church Option
An Abode in the Wilderness : Charles B. Thompson's Communal Society in Western Iowa
An Examination of the 1829 'Articles of the Church of Christ' in Relation to Section 20 of the Doctrine and Covenants
An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creation ex nihilo
A Peace Gene Isolated : Joseph Smith III
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
'A Perfect Estopel' : Selling the Nauvoo Temple
Archive of Restoration Culture: Summer Fellows' Papers 1997-1999
"Archives of the Better World": The Nineteenth-Century Historian's Office and Mormonism's Archival Flexibility
A Response to Grant Palmer's "Sexual Allegations against Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Polygamy in Nauvoo"
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
"A Subject That Can Bear Investigation" : Anguish, Faith, and Joseph Smith's Youngest Plural Wife
"A Uniformity So Complete" : Early Mormon Angelology
Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 1 : Definitions and Development
Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2 : Ordinances, Quorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
A Winter with the Mormons : The 1852 Letters of Jotham Goodell
A Witness in England : Martin Harris and the Strangite Mission
Blood of the Prophets : Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Brigham Young : Pioneer Prophet
Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839
Civilizing the Ragged Edge : The Wives of Jacob Hambin
Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Counterfeiting in Early Mormonism : The Historical Record
Debating Succession, March 1846 : John E. Page, Orson Hyde, and the Trajectories of Joseph Smith's Legacy
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
"Denying the Undeniable" : Examining Early Mormon Polygamy Renunciations
Desert between the Mountains : Mormons, Miners, Padres, Mountain Men, and the Opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869
Did Joseph Smith Commit Treason in His Quest for Political Empire in 1844?
Dilemmas of Feminists and Intellectuals in the Contemporary LDS Church
D. Michael Quinn: Mormon Historian
DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn
Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Dream Mines and Religious Identity in Twentieth-Century Utah : Insights from the Norman C. Pierce Papers
Early Mormon and Shaker Visions of Sanctified Community
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
Eighth Witness : The Biography of John Whitmer
Elder Nigeajasha and Other Mormon Indians Moving Westward
Embracing the Law Reading Doctrine and Covenants 42
Equal Rites : The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
Event or Process? How “the Chamber of Old Father Whitmer” Helps Us Understand Priesthood Restoration
'Everything is Favorable! And God Is On Our Side' : Samuel Brannan and the Conquest of California
Exceptionally Queer : Mormon Peculiarity and US Exceptionalism
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
Expressions of Faith : Testimonies of Latter-day Saint Scholars
Eyes on "the Whole European World" : Mormon Observers of the 1848 Revolutions
Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere : The Gülen Movement and the Mormon Church
Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith's Pre-Nauvoo Reputation
Fanny Alger Smith Custer : Mormonism's First Plural Wife?
Fawn M. Brodie and Deborah Laake : Two Perspectives on Mormon Feminist Dissent
Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
Finally Statehood! Utah's Struggles, 1849-1896
Forgotten Kingdom : The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
From Men to Boys : LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829-1996
From Monogamy to Polygamy and Back Again
: Changing Marriage Practices Among the Strangites
From Peoplehood to Church Membership : Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II
From the Dust to the Dusty : The Rise and Fall of the Book of Mormon in the Life and Ministry of Joseph Smith Jr.
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
Gathering in Harmony : A Saga of Southern Utah Families, Their Roots and Pioneering Heritage, and the Tale of Antone Prince, Sheriff of Washington County
Gender Differences in the Early Patriarchal Blessings of the LDS Church, 1834-1845
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
God and Country : Politics in Utah
God and the People : Theodemocracy in Nineteenth-Century Mormonism
God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land : Faith and Conflict in the American West
"Guilty of Such Folly?" : Accusations of Adultery and Polygamy Against Oliver Cowdrey
History May Be Searched in Vain : A Military History of the Mormon Battalion
History through Liturgy : What Worship Remembers
'His Word Was as Good as His Note' : The Impact of Justus Morse's Mormonism(s) on His Families
Holy Races : Race in the Formation of Mormonism and the Nation of Islam
Identifying Joseph Smith's Plural Wives
Identifying the Earliest Mormon Polygamists, 1841-44
'Illicit Intercourse,' Plural Marriage, and the Nauvoo Stake High Council, 1840-1844
In defence of Gods people if Need bee : Brigham Young Hampton
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
In Sacred Loneliness: The Documents
Ireland to Utah : Odyssey of the William Black and Jane Johnston Family
Island Adventures : The Hawaiian Mission of Francis A. Hammond
John C. Bennett, Joseph Smith, and the Beginnings of Mormon Plural Marriage in Nauvoo
John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
Joseph F. Smith: Reflections on the Man and His Times
'Joseph's Measures' : The Continuation of Esoterica by Schismatic Members of the Council of Fifty
Joseph Smith, Captain Kidd, Cumorah, and Moroni
Joseph Smith's Ambiguous Legacy : Gender, Race, and Ethnicity as Dynamics for Schism Within Mormonism after 1844
Joseph Smith's Performance of Marriages in Ohio
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Keywords : Joseph Smith, Language Change, and Theological Innovation, 1829-44
Kirtland, Nauvoo, and Zodiac : A Commentary on Early Mormon Temples
Kirtland Temple : The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism
Law and Order in Winter Quarters
LDS 'Headquarters Culture' and the Rest of Mormonism : Past and Present
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Luana Hart Beebe (1814-1897) : A Biographical Sketch of a Remarkable Early Latter-day Saint
Lyman E. Johnson : Forgotten Apostle
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Making the Absent Visible : The Real, Ideal, and the Abstract in Mormon Art
"Marshaled and Disciplined for War" : A Documentary Chronology of Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois 1839-1845
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Meaning and Authority in Mormon Ritual
Men and the Priesthood
Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism : The Generations After the Manifesto
Monogamy Underground : The Burial of Mormon Plural Marriage in the Graves of Joseph and Emma Smith
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Christianity
Mormon Conquest : Whites and Natives in the Intermountain West
Mormon Europeans or European Mormons? : An "Afro-European" View on Religious Colonization
Mormon Forgery : Past and Present
Mormon Hermeneutics: Five Approaches to the Bible by the LDS Church
Mormon History
Mormonism 101 : Examining the Religion of the Latter-day Saints
Mormonism and the Emotions : An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts
Mormonism and Violence : The Battles of Zion
Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology
Mormonism in America: Itinerary to Allegiance from Joseph Smith to Mitt Romney
Mormon Studies as an Academic Discipline
Mormontown : Collective Memories of a Cutlerite Colony in Iowa
Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness
Moroni and the Swastika : Mormons in Nazi Germany
Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
National Culture, Personality, and Theocracy in the Early Mormon Culture of Violence
Navigating Mormonism's Gendered Theology and Practice : Mormon Women in a Global Context
Newel and Lydia Bailey Knight's Kirtland Love Story and Historic Wedding
No Place to Call Home : The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities
No Weapon Shall Prosper : New Light on Sensitive Issues
Nuestros Hermanos Lamanitas : Indios y Fronteras en la Imaginación Mormona
Of Church and State : Ecclesiastical Politics and the 1922 Salt Lake County Sheriff's Election
Oliver Cowdery : Scribe, Elder, Witness : Essays from BYU Studies and FARMS
Ordering Antinomy : An Analysis of Early Mormonism's Priestly Offices, Councils, and Kinship
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
Placing the Keystone : George Q. Cannon's Mission of Translating and Printing the Book of Mormon in the Hawaiian Language
Playing with Shadows : Voices of Dissent in the Mormon West
Plural Accidents : Writing In Sacred Loneliness
Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
Priesthood Restoration Documents
Probing the Lives of Christ and Joseph Smith
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Prostitution, Polygamy, and Power : Salt Lake City, 1847-1918
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Radical Origins : Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors
Real Native Genius :
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Re-Examining the Adams/Quincy May 1844 Visit to Nauvoo
Reflections on a Roundtable Colloquium Dealing with Joseph Smith's 1844 Campaign for U.S. President
Reflections on a Roundtable Colloquium Dealing with Joseph Smith's 1844 Campaign for U.S. President
(Re)Interpreting Early Mormon Thought : Synthesizing Joseph Smith's Theology and the Process of Religion Formation
'Remember Me in My Affliction' : Louisa Beaman and Eliza R. Snow Letters, 1849
Revelation, Reason, and Faith : Essays in Honor of Truman G. Madsen
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-century Americans : A Mormon Example
Sampson Avard : The First Danite
"Saviors on Mount Zion" : Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead
Scattering of the Saints : Schism within Mormonism
Scottish Shepherd : The Life and Times of John Murray Murdoch, Utah Pioneer
"Seeking after Monarchal Power and Authority" : Joseph Smith and Leadership in the Church of Christ, 1831-1832
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
"So We Built a Good Little Temple to Worship In" : Mormonism on the Pedernales -- Texas, 1847-1851
Spencer W. Kimball and the Revelation on Priesthood
Standing Apart : Mormon Historical Consciousness And The Concept Of Apostasy
Stealing at Mormon Nauvoo
Storming the Nation : The Unknown Contributions of Joseph Smith’s Political Missionaries
Strangite Mormons : A finding aid
Succession by Seniority : The Development of Procedural Precedents, in the LDS Church
Summing Up : Problems and Prospects for a Global Church in the Twenty-first Century
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
The Ancient Order and the New Measures : Early Mormon Temple Worship and Finneyite Revivalism
The Anointed Quorum in Nauvoo 1842-45
The Awkward State of Utah : Coming of Age in the Nation 1896-1945
The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition (book)
The Campaign and the Kingdom : The Activities of the Electioneers in Joseph Smith's Presidential Campaign
The Case for Sidney Rigdon as Author of the Lectures on Faith
"The Church in the Days of Alpheus Cutler" : New Insights into the Nineteenth-Century Cutlerite Ecclesiology
The Concept of a Rejected Gospel in Mormon History, Part 1
The Concept of a "Rejected Gospel" in Mormon History, Part 2
The Construction of the Mormon People
The Coronation of James J. Strang and the Making of Beaver Island Mormonism
The Council of Fifty Minutes and Latter Day Saint Studies on Succession
The Council of Fifty, Orson Hyde, and the “Last Charge”: A Re-evaluation
The Culture of Violence in Joseph Smith’s Mormonism
The Discovery of Native 'Mormon' Communities in Russia
The Earliest Eternal Sealings for Civilly Married Couples Living and Dead
The Fascinating Life of Vienna Jaques
The Forgotten Story of Nauvoo Celestial Marriage
The Garden Atonement and the Mormon Cross Taboo
"The Highest Class of Adulterers and Whoremongers" : Plural Marriage, the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), and the Construction of Memory
The Infallibility Trap : The Sacralisation of Religious Authority
The Inner Joseph Smith
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 6 : February 1838–August 1839
The Joseph Smith-Sylvia Sessions Plural Sealing : Polyandry or Polygyny?
The Journey of a People : The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844
The Kingdom and the Church : The Anointed, the Fifty, and Alpheus Cutler's Claims
The LDS Church's Campaign against the Equal Rights Amendment
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
The Making of a Mormon Myth : The 1844 Transfiguration of Brigham Young
The Mantle of Joseph : Creation of a Mormon Miracle
The Mantle of the Prophet Joseph Passes to Brother Brigham : A Collective Spiritual Witness
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 Gender-Inclusive Image of God
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Priesthood Ban and Elder Q. Walker Lewis : "An Example for His More Whiter Brethren to Follow"
The Mormon Quest for Glory : The religious world of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormon Rebellion : America's First Civil War, 1857-1858
The Notorious Hodges Brothers : Solving The Mystery of Their Destruction at Nauvoo
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism
The Persistence of Mormon Plural Marriage
The Politics of Schism : The Origins of Dissent in Mormonism
"The Private Character of the Man Who Bore That Testimony" : Oliver Cowdery and His Critics
"There's the Boy I Can Trust" : Dennison Lott Harris' First-Person Account of the Conspiracy of Nauvoo and Events Surrounding Joseph Smith's "Last Charge" to the Twelve Apostles
The Rise of Mormonism
The RLDS Church on the Pacific Slope
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender
The Saintly Scoundrel : The life and times of Dr. John Cook Bennett
The Texas Republic and the Mormon Kingdom of God
The Upper-Room Work : Esotericism in the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite), 1853-1912
The Vision of the Redemption of the Dead
"The Wars and the Perplexities of the Nations" : Reflections on early Mormonism, violence, and the state
The Writings of Oliver Olney : April 1842 to February 1843 — Nauvoo, Illinois
Thomas F. O'Dea and Mormon Intellectual Life : A Reassessment Fifty Years Later
"To Whom Shall We Go?" Historical Patterns of Restoration Believers with Serious Doubts
Transformation of the Mormon Hierarchy at Far West, Missouri
Treachery and False Swearing in Missouri : The Rise and Fall of Sampson Avard
Understanding Multiple Mormonisms
Us-Them Tribalism and Early Mormonsim
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
"Vindicating the Right... of the Twelve" : Elias Adams's Letters Concerning Succession
'We have a Company of Danites in these Times' : The Danites, Joseph Smith, and the 1838 Missouri-Mormon Conflict
William Smith's Patriarchal Blessings and Contested Authority in the Post-Martyrdom Church
Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books