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English
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Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism
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Norman, OK
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Arthur H. Clark Company
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351
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Parley P. Pratt joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830 and was murdered in 1857 by the estranged husband of his twelfth plural wife. An original member of the Church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Pratt played a key leadership role for the Mormons. His writings, including poetry, apologetics, and an autobiography, helped define Mormon theology and identity, and his hymns remain popular today.
Arguably Mormonism's most influential early leader after Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, Pratt is also one of its least understood. This collection of essays uses Pratt's life and writings as a means for gaining insight on early Latter-day Saint history, including the Church's initial internationalization, vibrant print culture, development of a unique theology, family dynamics, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
This fascinating compilation sets Pratt and Mormonism in the context of American religion and culture. The contributors examine Pratt's political and religious struggles on behalf of Mormonism. His murder is also situated within competing narratives of religious martyrdom and sexual deviance, Victorian domestic ideals and domestic abuse.
Because Pratt was killed in Arkansas, the massacre of Arkansas emigrants at Mountain Meadows in Utah has long been viewed as vengeance for his death. This well-crafted collection shows that view to be oversimplified. The narratives that emerge here will appeal to anyone seeking to understand the nuances of early Mormon history in the context of one of its most important and controversial figures. -
Balancing Faith and History : A Conversation with James B. Allen
Contexts for the Murder of Parley P. Pratt
Convicting the Mormons: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Early Mormonism and the Re-enchantment of Antebellum Historical Thought
Faithful and Fearless : Major Howard Egan : Early Mormonism and the Pioneering of the American West
How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith: The 49th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Joseph Smith's Dog, Old Major
Mormon Christianity : What Other Christians can learn from the Latter-day Saints
Mountain Meadows Massacre : Collected Legal Papers
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Persecution, Memory, and Mormon Identity in Parley Pratt's Autobiography
"Reasonings Sufficient" : Joseph Smith, Thomas Dick, and the context(s) of early Mormonism
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
"Silence, Ye Fiends of the Infernal Pit!" : Joseph Smith's Incarceration in Richmond, Missouri, November 1838
"Tempered for Glory" : Brigham Young's Cosmological Theodicy
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Prophet and the Reformer : The Letters of Brigham Young and Thomas L. Kane
The Religion Is Assailed by Most in the Country : A Letter from the First Latter-day Saint Converts in Jamaica
Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath