Item Detail
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32574
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50
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English
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American frontier religions: Mormons and their dissenters 1830- 1900
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Moscow, ID
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University of Idaho
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Ph.D.
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"Joseph Smith, who founded the Mormon religion on the American frontier in 1830, was not a rebel to American Protestantism, nor were the Mormon dissenters. Instead, both were religious radicals because their behavior demonstrated excessive Judeo-Christian primitiveness. The contention of this essay is that the first seventy years of Mormon history is a history of religious radicalism and because of this characteristic, Mormon leadership, wherever it was in place and time, helped to create their own dissenters without being overtly aware of it. The thesis of this essay shows that the correlation between Mormonism and America's form of Protestantism lies in the similarities of both schismatic behavior patterns. The substance of this essay is a survey of Mormon dissenters between 1830 and 1900. In the main, the nineteenth century Mormon dissenters protested against temporal leadership because they felt they still had not found the true latter day prophet of God and true latter day religious organization. This generalization can be seen in a review of the Pro-Nauvoo separatists, the Nauvoo dissenters, the Post-Nauvoo dissenters and the Utah or Brighamite schisms. However, each group of dissenters surveyed remained within the ideology of Mormonism." [Author's Abstract]
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