Item Detail
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27750
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10
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English
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Joseph Smith's First Vision : New Methods for the Analysis of Experience-Related Texts
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Mormon Studies Review
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3
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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53-84
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The following exchange between Ann Taves and Steven C. Harper took place at the 2014 American Academy of Religion conference in San Diego, California. It was years in the making. At the 2013 Mormon History Association conference in Layton, Utah, Harper commented on Taves's paper, "Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates." That fascinating panel interaction spurred a productive subsequent personal correspondence related to their shared interest in religious experience and Joseph Smith's first vision. They eventually opted for a formal dialogue script to recount what they had learned in their scholarly exchange. We reproduce the complete dialogue here, with minor editing to suit a print format and accompanying appendixes related to primary source material, both as a case of best practices in lively, respectful, and muscular scholarly engagement and also as an example of the fruitful tension produced by marked differences in methodological approaches and assumptions in the academic study of Mormonism. [From the text]
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Discerning Supernatural Presences : Experiential Claims and Restorationist Movements in the Burned-Over District
“Effusions of an Enthusiastic Brain” : Joseph Smith’s First Vision and the Limits of Experiential Religion
First Vision Controversies : Implications for Accounts of Mormon Origins
First Vision : Memory and Mormon Origins
Sacralizing the Secular in Latter-day Saint Salvation Histories
Sincerity, Imagination, and Mythmaking : Fawn Brodie and the First Vision
The LDS Gospel Topics Series : A Scholarly Engagement
The Second Sacred Grove : The Influence of Greenville, Indiana, on Joseph Smith's 1832 First Vision Account
"We Believe the Hand of the Lord Is in It" : Memories of Divine Intervention in the Zion's Camp Expedition
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction