Item Detail
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32812
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18
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English
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Developing the Dead: Spirit Photography, Mormonism, and Noise
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Journal of Mormon History
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April 2022
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48
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2
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106-130
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This article examines Latter-day Saint connection to the dead in the context of the rising trend of spiritualism in the second half of the 19th century. It specifically takes spirit photography into consideration, stating that "spirit photos evinced channels and random signs of the dead, but in conceptual and medium-specific terms they were all too 'noisy' for Latter-day Saints... they were simultaneously socially disruptive (loud), photographically 'foggy' (image noise) and, perhaps worst of all, meaningless (silent). Their signal-to-noise ratio was off... Mormons... expected more signal and less noise and followed a tradition of seeking to quiet and dispel noise in order to more clearly send and receive spiritual communication." [Author]
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Ann Booth's Vision and Early Conceptions of Redeeming the Dead among Latter-day Saints
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Discourses of Brigham Young : Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
External Evidences of the Book of Mormon
First Vision : Memory and Mormon Origins
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Media as compromise : a cultural history of Mormonism and new communication technology in twentieth-century America
Mesmerism and Mormonism
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Recording Beyond the Grave : Joseph Smith’s Celestial Bookkeeping
Set in Stone, Fixed in Glass : The Great Mormon Temple and its Photographers
Sounding Mormonism
Speaking in Tongues in the Restoration Churches
Spiritualism and Mormonism : Some Thoughts on Similarities and Differences
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 6 : February 1838–August 1839
The Limits of Naturalistic Criteria for the Book of Mormon : Comparing Joseph Smith and Andrew Jackson Davis
'The Tongue of Angels' : Glossolalia among Mormonism's Founders
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young