Item Detail
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25959
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49
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English
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"Saviors on Mount Zion" : Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead
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Journal of Mormon History
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Fall 2013
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39
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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182-238
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[2014 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Article]
Considering the experiences of early Latter-day Saints, like those in Nauvoo, scholars have long debated the appeal and potency of Mormonism, wondering why it resonated so deeply with many early Americans, and why the concepts at its core have been (and are) so attractive and enduring. Studying the unique performance of saving rituals or "sacraments" among early Mormons highlights yet another dimension of Mormonism's appeal. As the faith matured in the late 1830s and early 1840s, saving ordinances came to assume an increasing and unusual importance. [From the article]
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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
Ann Booth's Vision and Early Conceptions of Redeeming the Dead among Latter-day Saints
"Archives of the Better World": The Nineteenth-Century Historian's Office and Mormonism's Archival Flexibility
Christology and Theosis in the Revelations and Teachings of Joseph Smith
Early Mormonism's Expansive Family and the Browett women
Feeding the Flock : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Church and Praxis
How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith: The 49th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Mormon Women's History : Beyond Biography
Rebaptism in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Saints : The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days. The Standard of Truth 1815–1846.
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
Wrestling the Angel : The Foundations of Mormon Thought : Cosmos, God, Humanity
Yet to Be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology -
A Girl's Letters from Nauvoo
A House for the Most High : The Story of the Original Nauvoo Temple
An Ambivalent Rejection : Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
Angels in the Age of Railways
Banner of the Gospel : Wilford Woodruff
'Blessed Is the First Man Baptised in This Font' : Reuben McBride, First Proxy to Be Baptized for the Dead in the Nauvoo Temple
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Early Mormon Adoption Theology and the Mechanics of Salvation
Early Mormon Documents : Volume V
Eliza R. Snow : The Complete Poetry
'For This Ordinance Belongeth to My House' : The Practice of Baptism for the Dead Outside the Nauvoo Temple
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
"It Seems That All Nature Mourns": Sally Randall's Response to the Murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
Joseph Smith and Creation of the Sacred
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and the Legal Administrator
Joseph Smith, W. W. Phelps, and the Poetic Paraphrase of 'The Vision'
Line upon Line, Precept upon Precept : Reflections on the 1877 Commencement of the Performance of Endowments and Sealings of the Dead
Lucy's Book : A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir
Mormonism and Early Christianity
Mormonism and the Mormons
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nauvoo Temple : A Story of Faith
Power from on High : The Development of Mormon Priesthood
Recollections of the Prophet Joseph Smith
Redeeming the Dead : Tender Mercies, Turning of Hearts, and Restoration of Authority
Redemption of the Dead : Continuing Revelation after Joseph Smith
Salvation through a Tabernacle : Joseph Smith, Parley P. Pratt, and Early Mormon Theologies of Embodiment
Short Sketch of Seymour Brunson, Sr
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
The Democratization of American Christianity
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Harrowing of Hell : Salvation for the Dead in Early Christianity
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 2 : December 1841-April 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 2 : Published Revelations
The Mormon Culture of Salvation : Force, Grace, and Glory
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Practice of Rebaptism at Nauvoo
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations : Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity
The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
"They Shall be Made Whole" : A History of Baptism for Health
Universalism and the Revelations of Joseph Smith
'What Has Become of Our Fathers?' Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William Weeks, Architect of the Nauvoo Temple
Women's Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900