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Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
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Salt Lake City
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Signature Books
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In this ground-breaking book, D. Michael Quinn masterfully reconstructs an earlier age, finding ample evidence for folk magic in nineteenth-century New England, as he does in Mormon founder Joseph Smith's upbringing. Quinn discovers that Smith's world was inhabited by supernatural creatures whose existence could be both symbolic and real. He explains that the Smith family's treasure digging was not unusual for the times and is vital to understanding how early Mormons interpreted developments in their history in ways that differ from modern perceptions. Quinn's impressive research provides a much-needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism.
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Altering Translated Scriptures: The Case of Familiar Spirit (as a Key Phrase of the Restoration and as an Inapt Product of Jacobean Demonology)
American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
American Proto- Zionism and the "Book of Lehi" : Recontextualizing the Rise of Mormonism
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Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
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Congruence and Concatenation in Jewish Mystical Literature, American Freemasonry, and Mormon Enoch Writings
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Cracking the Book of Mormon's "Secret Combinations"?
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Discerning Supernatural Presences : Experiential Claims and Restorationist Movements in the Burned-Over District
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DNA Mormon: Perspectives on the Legacy of Historian D. Michael Quinn
Dream Mines and Religious Identity in Twentieth-Century Utah : Insights from the Norman C. Pierce Papers
Envisioning Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Revelations in Their Early American Contexts
Essays on American Indian and Mormon History
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni : Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
History and the Claims of Revelation : Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates
In God's Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
James E. Talmage and the Selenite Crystals
Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith and Kabbalah : The Occult Connection
Joseph Smith and the Gift of Translation : The Development of Discourse About Spiritual Gifts During the Early Book of Mormon Translation Process (1828-1829)
Joseph Smith at the Veil: Significant Ritual, Symbolism, and Temple Influence at Latter-day Saint Beginnings
Joseph Smith in Iroquois Country : A Mormon Creation Story
Joseph Smith’s Education and Intellect as Described in Documentary Sources
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Joseph Smith’s Response to Skepticism
Joseph's Temples : The Dynamic Relationship Between Freemasonry and Mormonism
Keywords : Joseph Smith, Language Change, and Theological Innovation, 1829-44
Knowing Brother Joseph Again : The Book of Abraham and Joseph Smith as Translator
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Leland Manuscript Forgery and the Faculty of Abrac
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Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness
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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
Nephite Secularization ; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon
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No Weapon Shall Prosper : New Light on Sensitive Issues
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Oliver Cowdery : Scribe, Elder, Witness : Essays from BYU Studies and FARMS
Oliver Cowdery's Vermont Years and the Origins of Mormonism
On the Problem and Promise of Alex Caldiero’s Sonosophy : Doing Dialogical Coperformative Ethnography; Or, Enter the Poetarium
Other Scriptures : Restoring Voices of Gantowisas to an Open Canon
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Redemption : The Treasure Quest and the Wandering Soul
Revisiting Joseph Smith and the Availability of the Book of Enoch
Rewriting Eden With The Book of Mormon : Joseph Smith and the Reception of Genesis 1-6 in Early America
Sacred Sci-Fi : Orson Scott Card as Mormon Mythmaker
Samuel Tyler Lawrence : A Significant Figure in Joseph Smith's Palmyra Past
Seeking Divine Interaction : Joseph Smith's Varying Searches for the Supernatural
Seers and Stones : The Translation of the Book of Mormon as Divine Visions of an Old-Time Seer
“Show Them unto No Man”: Part 2. The Book of Moses and the Early Jewish Christian Esoteric Tradition
Some Little Necromancy : Politics, Religion, and the Mormons
Talking to Angels; Talking of Angels : Constructing the Angelology of the Book of Mormon
The Bible and the Latter-day Saint Tradition (book)
The Book of Enoch "Revised, Corrected, and the Missing Parts Restored"
The Complete Record of the Nauvoo Library and Literary Institute
The Curious Case of Joseph Howard, Palmyra's Seventeen-Year-Old Somnium Preacher
The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context: The 37th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
The First Vision as a Prehistory of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Forms and the Power : The Development of Mormon Ritual Healing to 1847
The Ghost and the Machine : Plates and Paratext in The Book of Mormon
The History Between the Lines
The Journey of a People : The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844
The Mormon Gender-Inclusive Image of God
The Mormon Quest for Glory : The religious world of the Latter-day Saints
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
"The Private Character of the Man Who Bore That Testimony" : Oliver Cowdery and His Critics
The Secret Mormon Meetings of 1922
The Spectacles, the Stone, the Hat, and the Book : A Twenty-first Century Believer's View of the Book of Mormon Translation
The State of Mormon Folklore Studies
Translating Time: The Nature and Function of Joseph Smith's Narrative Canon
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Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
Visions in a Seer Stone : Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
Visions, Mushrooms, Fungi, Cacti, and Toads : Joseph Smith’s Reported Use of Entheogens
Walking on Water : Nineteenth-Century Prophets and a Legend of Religious Imposture
“We’re Going to Take Our Land Back Over” : Indigenous Positionality, the Ethnography of Reading, and The Book of Mormon
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