Item Detail
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27969
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English
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The Mormon Gathering
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Mormonism and American Culture
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New York, NY
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Harper & Row
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87-100
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As William Mulder explains below, the doctrine of "the gathering," Mormonism's "oldest and most influential doctrine," profoundly affected Mormon history from 1830 into the 1890s. He examines its intellectual sources and its impact on Mormon eschatology, westward migration, and settlement in Utah. [Editors' summary]