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Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Signature Books
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"Dan Vogel takes us deep inside the inner workings of Joseph Smtih's Ohio and Missouri years, illuminating what drove Smith and animated his growing number of followers. Vogel narrates the day-to-day events in the Mormon prophet's life, then steps back with his customary incisiveness to analyze and deconstruct the changing nature of the church Smith founded. Events of the era-- the developing priesthood, the emergence of administrative offices, the tarring and feathering of Smith, divine revelations, the settlement of Zion, the Army of Israel, the Book of Abraham, Smith's relationship with Fanny Alger and his fallout with Oliver Cowdery, the Kirtland Safety Society, and the Mormon War in Missouri-- are detailed in lively fashion and framed in the context of their time. Vogel examines the knots, limbs, and leaves of each tree while never losing sight of the forest that is Smith's sprawling creation. With the establishment of the temple, or House of the Lord, in Kirtland, Ohio, the church became more firmly rooted, the edifice symbolizing permanency for the institution. Yet that proved short-lived, and by 1839 conflict had forced Smith and his followers to abandon both their Ohio and Missouri settlements for Commerce, Illinois. Utilizing modern-day understandings of human nature and behavior, Vogel provides context to Smith's life and fits more pieces of the prophet puzzle into place. His depiction of Smith is insightful, nuanced, and sympathetic, rejecting two-dimensional portrayals that insist the founder of Mormonism was either God's seer and revelator or a knowing fraud out to fleece his flock." [From book jacket]
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Kirtland Egyptian Papers
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Pearl of Great Price, Book of Abraham
Kirtland Temple
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Zion's Camp -
1839 : The Saints Forced Exodus from Missouri
A Brief History of the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints (Commonly Called Mormons)
A Call to Arms : The 1838 Defense of Northern Missouri
A City of Refuge : Quincy
A Collection of Facts, Relative to the Course Taken by Elder Sidney Rigdon, in the States of Ohio, Missouri, Illinois and Pennsylvania
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume One, 1830-1847
A Few Interesting Facts, Respecting the Rise Progress and Pretensions of the Mormons
A Girl's Letters from Nauvoo
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Clay County, Missouri, from 1833 to 1837
A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri from 1836 to 1839
Alexander Campbell : Another Restorationist
Alexander William Doniphan and the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
'Almost Too Intolerable a Burthen' : The Winter Exodus from Missouri, 1838-39
American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
A Mormon Midrash? : LDS Creation Narratives Reconsidered
An Address to All Believers in Christ. By a Witness to the Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon
An Appeal to the American People
An Historical Analysis of the Word of Wisdom
Anti-Universalist Rhetoric in the Book of Mormon
Approaching Antiquity : Joseph Smith and the Ancient World
A Profile of Latter-day Saints of Kirtland, Ohio, and Members of Zion's Camp, 1830-1839
Archive of Restoration Culture: Summer Fellows' Papers 1997-1999
A Reply to Dr. Bushman
As a Thief in the Night : The Mormon Millennialist View
A Shaker View of a Mormon Mission
Astronomy, Papyrus and Covenant, Studies in the Book of Abraham
A Study of the Origins of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the States of New York and Pennsylvania, 1816-1831
A Textual History of the Book of Abraham : Manuscripts and Editions
A Trajectory of Plurality : An Overview of Joseph Smith's Thirty-three Plural Wives
Attempts by the State of Missouri to Extradite Joseph Smith, 1841-1843
Autobiography and Recollections of a Pioneer Printer
Believing History : Latter-day Saints Essays
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations
Brigham Young : American Moses
By Our Rites of Worship : Latter-day Saint Views on Ritual in History, Scripture, and Practice
Chartering the Kirtland Bank
Christ Comes to Jackson County : The Mormon City of Zion and Its Consequences
Clarification of Boggs' 'Order' and Joseph Smith's Constitutionalism
Curses and Marks : Racial Dispensations and Dispensations of Race in Joseph Smith's Bible Revision and the Book of Abraham
Days Never to Be Forgotten : Oliver Cowdery
Delusions : An Analysis of the Book of Mormon ; with an Examination of Its internal and External Evidences, and a Refutation of Its pretences to Divine Authority
"Dictated by Christ" : Joseph Smith and the Politics of Revelation
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Documents, Volume 4: April 1834-September 1835
Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
Early History of the Disciples in the Western Reserve, Ohio
Early Independence, Missouri, 'Mormon' History Tour Guide
Early Mormon Documents : Volume I
Early Mormonism and Early Christianity : Some Parallels and Their Consequences for the Study of New Religions
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormon Priesthood Revelations : Text, Impact, and Evolution
Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Early Scenes in Church History
Edward Partridge in Painesville, Ohio
Emergence of a Fundamental : The Expanding Role of Joseph Smith's First Vision in Mormon Religious Thought
Evolution of Early Mormon Priesthood Narratives
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Factors in the Destruction of the Mormon Press in Missouri, 1833
Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons, or Latter-day Saints from the State of Missouri, under the 'Exterminating Order'
Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith's Pre-Nauvoo Reputation
Far West Record : Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1844
Fire and Sword : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Northern Missouri, 1836-39
First Impressions : The Independence, Missouri, Printing Operation, 1832-33
Flight from Kirtland
Foundational Texts of Mormonism : Examining Major Early Sources
Fragments of Experience
"Guilty of Such Folly"? Accusations of Adultry and Polygamy Against Oliver Cowdery
Habeas Corpus in Early Nineteenth-Century Mormonism : Joseph Smith's Legal Bulwark for Personal Freedom
Hearken, O Ye People : The Historical Setting for Joseph Smith's Ohio Revelations
'High Treason and Murder' : The Examination of Mormon Prisoners at Richmond, Missouri, in November 1838
His Chastening Rod : Cholera Epidemics and the Mormons
Historical Atlas of Mormonism
History and the Claims of Revelation : Joseph Smith and the Materialization of the Golden Plates
History of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints : A source- and text-critical edition
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of the Late Persecution Inflicted by the State of Missouri Upon the Mormons
History of the Organization of the Seventies
'I Have Sinned against Heaven, and Am Unworthy of Your Confidence, but I Cannot Live without a Reconciliation' : Thomas B. Marsh Returns to the Church
Independence, Missouri, and the Mormons, 1827-1833
Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon : Religious Solutions from Columbus to Joseph Smith
In Sacred Loneliness : The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
Inside the Mind of Joseph Smith : Psychobiography and the Book of Mormon
Invoking Habeas Corpus in Missouri and Illinois
Isaac McCoy and the Mormons
Isaiah in the Book of Mormon : Or Joseph Smith in Isaiah
James Colin Brewster : The Boy Prophet Who Challenged Mormon Authority
Joseph Smith, Adam Clarke, and the Making of a Bible Revision
Joseph Smith and Salem
Joseph Smith and the 1834 D.P. Hurlbut Case
Joseph Smith and the Bible
Joseph Smith and the Conspicuous Scarcity of Early Mormon Documentation
Joseph Smith and the Hazards of Charismatic Leadership
Joseph Smith and the Law of Consecration
Joseph Smith and the Missouri Court of Inquiry : Austin A. King's Quest for Hostages
Joseph Smith and the Plurality of Worlds Idea
Joseph Smith and the United Firm : The Growth and Decline of the Church's First Master Plan of Business and Finance, Ohio and Missouri, 1832-1834
Joseph Smith as a Student of Hebrew
Joseph Smith, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Section 76 : Importance of the Bible in Latter-day Revelation
Joseph Smith III and The Restoration
Joseph Smith : Inspired Author of the Book of Mormon
Joseph Smith, Jr., and 'The Notorious Case of Aaron Lyon' : Evidence of Earlier Doctrinal Development of Salvation for the Dead and a Trigger for the Practice of Polygamy
Joseph Smith Papers : Histories, 1832-1844, Vol. 1
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
Joseph Smith's 1891 Millennial Prophecy : The Quest for Apocalyptic Deliverance
Joseph Smith's Dog, Old Major
Joseph Smith's First Vision : A Guide to the Historical Accounts
Joseph Smith’s New Translation of the Bible : Original Manuscripts
Joseph Smith's Performance of Marriages in Ohio
Joseph Smith's Polygamy
Joseph Smith's Scriptural Cosmology
Joseph Smith's Seer Stones
Joseph Smith : The Making of a Prophet
Joseph Smith : The Prophet and Seer
'Journal of the Branch of the Church of Christ in Pontiac, . . . 1834' : Hyrum Smith's Division of Zion's Camp
Journals, Volume 3 : May 1843-June 1844
Judge Austin A. King's Preliminary Hearing : Joseph Smith and the Mormons on Trial
Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle; the Father and Founder of the British Mission
Light on the 'Mission to the Lamanites'
Line Upon Line : Essays on Mormon Doctrine
Literary Form and Historical Understanding : Joseph Smith's First Vision
Lost Apostles : Forgotten Members of Mormonism's Original Quorum of Twelve
Lucy's Book : A Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir
Lydia Knight's History
Manuscript Found : The Complete Original 'Spaulding Manuscript' by Solomon Spaulding
Missouri's Failed Compromise : The Creation of Caldwell County for the Mormons
Mixing Politics with Religion : A Closer Look at Electioneering and Voting in Caldwell and Daviess Counties in 1838
Mormonism Exposed, Being a Journal of a Residence in Missouri from the 28th of May to the 20th of August, 1838
Mormonism : Its Leaders and Designs
Mormonism; Or, Life among the Mormons
Mormonism Portrayed : Its Errors and Absurdities Exposed, and the Spirit and Designs of Its Authors Made Manifest
Mormonism's 'Anti-Masonick Bible'
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormonism Unveiled
Mormonism Unveiled : Zion's Watchman Unmasked
Mormon Political Involvement in Ohio
Mormon Polygamy : A History
Mormon Portraits or The Truth About the Mormon Leaders from 1830 to 1886
Mormon Redress Petitions : Documents of the 1833-1838 Missouri Conflict
Mormons and Native Americans : A Historical and Bibliographical Introduction
Mortal Enemies : Mormons and Missourians 1839-1844
My Life's Review
Naked Truths about Mormonism
Nauvoo : A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
Nauvoo Polygamy : "... But We Called it Celestial Marriage"
New Approaches to the Book of Mormon : Explorations in Critical Methodology
Newel and Lydia Bailey Knight's Kirtland Love Story and Historic Wedding
New Light on Mormonism
New Light on Mormon Origins From the Palmyra Revival
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
No Toil nor Labor Fear : The Story of William Clayton
Oliver Cowdery's Vermont Years and the Origins of Mormonism
On the Potter's Wheel : The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball
Origin, Rise and Progress of Mormonism
Orrin Porter Rockwell : Man of God, Son of Thunder
Pioneer and Personal Reminiscences
Power from on High : The Development of Mormon Priesthood
Priceless Words and Fallible Memories : Joseph Smith as Seen in the Effort to Preserve His Discourses
Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith's Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Prophetic Authority : Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Q?uincy, the Home of our Adoption' : A Study of the Mormons in Quincy, Illinois 1838-1840
Reassessing Joseph Smith's "Appointed Time for the Redemption of Zion"
Rediscovering the Context of Joseph Smith's Treasure Seeking
Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History : Missouri
Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History : New York
Regional Studies in Latter-day Saint Church History : Ohio
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
Religious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism
Reminiscences of Joseph, the Prophet, and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon
Revelations in Context: The Stories Behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants
Sacred Places Volume 1 : New England and Eastern Canada, A Comprehensive Guide to Early LDS Historical Sites
Sacred Space : Exploring the Birthplace of Mormonism
Schools of The Prophets : An Early American Tradition
Science, Religion, and Mormon Cosmology
Scraps of Biography
Searching for "Happiness" : Joseph Smith's Alleged Authorship of the 1842 Letter to Nancy Rigdon
"Seeking after Monarchal Power and Authority" : Joseph Smith and Leadership in the Church of Christ, 1831-1832
"Shake Off the Dust of Thy Feet" : The Rise and Fall of Mormon Ritual Cursing
Sidney Rigdon : A Portrait of Religious Excess
Some Notes on Joseph Smith and Adam Clarke
'Such Republicanism as This' : John Corrill's Rejection of Prophetic Rule
Sustaining the Law : Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters
Tabulating the Impact of Litigation on the Kirtland Economy
The Abominations of Mormonism Exposed; Containing Many Facts and Doctrines That Singular People, During Seven Years Membership with Them: From 1840 to 1847
The Attempted Assassination of Missouri's Ex-Governor, Lilburn W. Boggs
The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt
The Benson Exodus of 1833 : Mormon Converts and the Westward Movement
The Boggs Shooting and Attempted Extradition : Joseph Smith's Most Famous Case
The Book of Mormon as a Modern Expansion of an Ancient Source
The Book of Mormon, the Early Nineteenth-Century Debates over Universalism, and the Development of the Novel Mormon Doctrines of Ultimate Rewards and Punishments
The Breathing Permit of Hor : A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham
The Case for Sidney Rigdon as Author of the Lectures on Faith
The Character of Joseph Smith
The Colesville Branch in Kaw Township, Jackson County, Missouri, 1831 to 1833
The Consequential Counselor : Restoring the Root(s) of Jesse Gause
The Conversion of Sidney Rigdon to Mormonism
The Courthouse Mentioned in the Revelation on Zion
The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America
The Danites Reconsidered : Were They Vigilantes or Just the Mormons' Version of the Elks Club?
The Development of the Mormon Understanding of God : Early Mormon Modalism and Other Myths;Mormonism and the Nature of God : A Theological Evolution, 1830-1915. [by] Widmer, Kurt
The Earliest Mormon Concept of God
The Early Latter-day Saints in Livingston County, New York
The Election Day Battle at Gallatin
The Enigma of Solomon Spalding
The Fading of the Pharaoh's Curse : The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban against Blacks in the Mormon Church
The Fall of Kirtland : The Doctrine and Covenants' Role in Reaffirming Joseph
The Final Episode of Mormonism in Missouri in the 1830s : The Incarceration of the Mormon Prisoners at Richmond and Columbia Jails, 1838-1839
The First Mormon Temple : Design, Construction, and Historic Context of the Kirtland Temple
The Heavens Resound : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838
The History and Acquisition of the Original Temple Lot Property in Independence, Jackson County, Missouri
The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The History of the Saints : Or, An Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
The Influence of Sidney Rigdon Upon the Theology of Mormonism
The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri : A Complete Edition
The Joseph Smith Papers : Administrative Records, Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846
The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Vol. 12: March 1843 - July 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 10 : May–August 1842
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 11 : September 1842–February 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 1: July 1828-June 1831
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 2 : July 1831–January 1833
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 3 : February 1833-March 1834
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 5 : October 1835–January 1838
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 7 : September 1839–January 1841
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 9 : December 1841–April 1842
The Joseph Smith Papers : Histories. Volume 2, Assigned Histories, 1831-1847
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 1 : 1832–1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Journals, Volume 2 : December 1841-April 1843
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations : Manuscript Revelation Books (Facsimile Edition)
The Joseph Smith Papers : Revelations and Translations, Volume 4 : Book of Abraham and Related Manuscripts
The Joseph Smith Revelations : Text and Commentary
The Joseph Smith Translation and Ancient Texts of the Bible
The Journals of William E. McLellin 1831-1836
The Kirtland Elders' Quorum Record, 1836-1841
The Kirtland Hebrew School
The Kirtland Safety Society and the Fraud of Grandison Newell : A Legal Examination
The Kirtland Temple
The Life of Dr. Frederick G. Williams :
Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Locations of Joseph Smith's Early Treasure Quests
The Mature Joseph Smith and Treasure Searching
The Missouri Mormon Experience
The Missouri Redress Petitions : A Reappraisal of Mormon Persecutions in Missouri
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormons
The Mormon Village : Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan
The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes
The Odyssey of William Earl McLellin : Man of Diversity, 1806-83
The Pearl of Greatest Price : Mormonism's Most Controversial Scripture
The Persistence of Polygamy : Joseph Smith and the Origins of Mormon Polygamy
The Persisting Idea of American Treasure Hunting
The Political and Social Realities of Zion's Camp
The Priority of Mosiah : A Prelude to Book of Mormon Exegesis
The Prophet Puzzle : Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith
'The Prophet Puzzle' Revisited
The Prophet Puzzle : Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith
The Psychology and Prophetic Charisma : New Approaches to Understanding Joseph Smith and the Development of Charismatic Leadership
The Relationship of Oliver Cowdery with Joseph Smith
"There Really is a God, and He Dwells in the Temporal Parietal Lobe of Joseph Smith's Brain"
The Rocky Mountain Saints : A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The Saga of the Book of Abraham
The Spalding Theory Then and Now
The Story of the Book of Abraham : Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism
'The Tongue of Angels' : Glossolalia among Mormonism's Founders
The True Origin of The Book of Mormon
The Validity of the Witnesses' Testimonies
The Versatile W. W. Phelps--Mormon Writer, Educator, and Pioneer
The William E. McLellin Papers, 1854-1880
The Women of Mormondom
The Word of God : Essays on Mormon Scripture
"The Word of the Lord in the Original" : Joseph Smith's Study of Hebrew in Kirtland
The Word of Wisdom in Early Nineteenth-Century Perspective
The Words of Joseph Smith : The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
The Zelph Story
This is My Doctrine : The Development of Mormon Theology
"Those Who Receive You Not" : The Rite of Wiping Dust Off the Feet
'Thou Art the Man' : Newel K. Whitney in Ohio
"Thou Wast Willing to Lay Down Thy Life for thy Brethren" : Zion's Blessings in the Early Church
Treachery and False Swearing in Missouri : The Rise and Fall of Sampson Avard
We Also Marched : The Women and Children of Zion's Camp
'We have a Company of Danites in these Times' : The Danites, Joseph Smith, and the 1838 Missouri-Mormon Conflict
'We Took Our Change of Venue to the State of Illinois' : The Gallatin Hearing and the Escape of Joseph Smith and the Mormon Prisoners from Missouri, April 1839
Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? : The Spalding Enigma
Why the Prophet is a Puzzle : The Challenges of Using Psychological Perspectives to Understand the Character and Motivation of Joseph Smith, Jr.
Wife No. 19
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William Smith on Mormonism
“Would to God, Brethren, I Could Tell You Who I Am” : Nineteenth Century Mormonisms and the Apotheosis of Joseph Smith
Writing to Zion : The William W. Phelps Kirtland Letters (1835-1836)
'Ye Shall Go to the Ohio' : Exodus of the New York Saints to Ohio, 1831
Zion is Fled : The Expulsion of the Mormons from Jackson County, Missouri
Zion's Camp 1834 : Prelude to the Civil War