Item Detail
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26449
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3
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11
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English
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The Reluctant Metaphysicians
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Mormon Studies Review
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2014
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1
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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115-131
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"In the last two decades, a handful of studies have attempted to break the pattern and provide a scholarly view into the cultural tensions surrounding the religious meanings of Mormonism and magic. These books, combined with the scholarly and public context in which they occur, demonstrate a slow movement away from approaches dominated, however inadvertently, by an uncritically Protestant worldview. Though the road has been rocky, several books have done much to further the discussion. This essay engages this literature, mostly in the context of religious studies, by considering what it means, and has meant, to call early Mormonism 'magic' or Joseph Smith a 'magician'." [FROM AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION]
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Et Incarnatus Est : The Imperative for Book of Mormon Historicity
How and What You Worship: Christology and Praxis in the Revelations of Joseph Smith: The 49th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
Seer Stones, Salamanders, and Early Mormon "Folk Magic" in the Light of Folklore Studies and Bible Scholarship -
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
An American Prophet's Record : The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Mormonism and the Mormons
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Reconsidering Lucy Mack Smith's Folk Magic Confession
Salamander : The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
The Early Republic's Supernatural Economy : Treasure Seeking in the American Northeast, 1780-1830
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844