Item Detail
-
33539
-
0
-
20
-
English
-
Mormon Nauvoo from a Non-Mormon Perspective
-
Kingdom on the Mississippi Revisited: Nauvoo in Mormon History
-
Urbana
-
University of Illinois Press
-
160-180
-
"Mormon Nauvoo (1839-46) was a remarkable community because of its religious utopianism and rapid growth, but its historical significance derives primarily from the violence that it provoked, which resulted in the expulsion of the Saints from Illinois. Hence, from a non-Mormon perspective, the community must be understood not in relationship to the Restoration movement but in relationship to the Illinois frontier. The key to Nauvoo's fate is that it was an ambitious theocracy that asserted itself within a Jacksonian social environment deeply devoted to democracy. To understand the community's violent decline, then, we must also comprehend the cultural context in which it arose and the democratic ideology held by the non-Mormons (and dissident Mormons) who opposed it." [Abstract from chapter]
-
A History of Illinois : From Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
An Authentic Account of the Massacre of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet, and Hyrum Smith, His Brother
A Social, Economic, and Political Study of the Mormons in Western Illinois, 1839-1846 : A Re-Evaluation
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Causes of Mormon-Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1839-1846
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
'God's Base of Operations' : Mormon Variations on the American Sense of Mission
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
How to Become a People : The Mormon Scenario
Mormonism in Conflict : The Nauvoo Years
Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans
'The Death of a Mormon Dictator' : Letters of Massachusetts Mormons, 1843-1848
The Mormons
The New England Origins of Mormonism
The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter