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27218
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English
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Forming a Collective Memory of the First Vision : Using Art and Film
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An Eye of Faith : Essays in Honor of Richard O. Cowan
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Provo, UT
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Religious Studies Center, BYU
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257-275
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This essay analyzes when, how, and why Latter-day Saints developed a shared meaning of the First Vision. It did not happen overnight, or even in the first decade of Church history. The analysis will show not only how, when, and why the Saints developed a collective memory of Joseph Smith's First Vision, but how that memory has been and continues to be represented and transmitted from generation to generation through powerful and problematic artistic representations. [From the text]