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31991
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23
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English
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History and the Claims of Revelation : Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates
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The Expanded Canon : Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Greg Kofford Books
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93-120
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"Theologians and philosophers of religion have discussed the relationship between revelation and history at length in an effort to protect believers' claims from the corrosive effects of historical scrutiny. Here I want to approach this relationship from the point of view of the secular historian in order to consider the questions that historians can bring to such claims, the kinds of data we can analyze, the sorts of explanations we might consider, and the responsibilities that we owe to our subjects as historians if we want to explain their claims in non-native terms. Using Mormonism, a relatively recent, well-documented, and still highly contentious instance of an alleged new revelation as a case study, I will seek to illustrate two points : (1) historical methods are well-positioned to bring well-documented 'outliers'-- unusual events, figures, and movements-- into conversation with events, figures, and movements that are more amenable to study using ethnographic and experimental methods, and (2) Mormon claims regarding new revelation force non-Mormon scholars to struggle to make sense of seemingly implausible claims, a project that has long fascinated both anthropologists and historians of religion." [Author]
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