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Rosetti, Cristina

Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist

Introductions to Mormon Thought

University of Illinois Press

2024

In this biography of Joseph White Musser, Rosetti explicates Musser's marriages, his cosmology, his views on the priesthood, and lays the groundwork to help the reader understand how Musser became the foundation for fundamentalism today. The first section gives personal details about his excommunication, his marriages and his wives, as well as his background. Section two is concerned with alternative histories of the priesthood and authority. The third section is focused on cosmology. The final section concerns Musser's social order and communal living. Because plural marriage is Musser's guiding star, Rosetti is able to trace a cohesive narrative between all chapters.

Priesthood
Polygamy, History
Temple ritual
Manifesto, 1890
Plural marriage, childhood in
Plural marriage, post-Manifesto
Schisms, fundamentalists
Smoot, Reed, hearings
Taylor, John
Plural marriage, underground
Murdock, John
United Order
Doctrinal history, Adam-God theory
Doctrinal history, cosmology
Musser, Joseph W.
Doctrinal history, religious fundamentalism
Woolley, Lorin C.
Smart, William H.
Manifesto, Second
Doctrinal history, second anointing
Baldwin, Nathaniel
Doctrinal history, Adam and Eve
Comparative religion, fundamentalists
Allred, Rulon C.
Clark, John T.
Musser, Amos M.
Fundamentalists, Mormon

American Polygamy : A History of Fundamentalist Mormon Faith
A Uniform and Common Recollection : Joseph Smith's Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory, 1852-2002
"Further Light Pertaining to Celestial Marriage": The Law of Purity and Twentieth-Century Mormon Fundamentalist Discourse on Sexuality
"I Have Been Fanatically Religious" : Joseph White Musser, Father of the Fundamentalist Movement
John T. Clark : The "One Mighty and Strong"
Joseph W. Musser's Book of Remembrance
LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904
Make Yourselves Gods : Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism
Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration
Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism's Last Colonizer : The Life and Times of William H. Smart
Mormons and the New Deal : The 1936 Presidential Election in Utah
Nathaniel Baldwin, Utah Inventor and Patron of the Fundamentalist Movement
Outside the Mormon Hierarchy : Alternative Aspects of Institutional Power
Polygamy : An Early American History
Railroading Religion : Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West
Sister Saints: Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy
Textual Studies of the Doctrine and Covenants : The Plural Marriage Revelation (Contemporary Studies in Scripture)
'The Fulness of the Priesthood' : The Second Anointing in Latter-day Saint Theology and Practice
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Power of Godliness : Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology
The Spiritual Evolution of Margarito Bautista : Mexican Mormon Evangelizer, Polygamist Dissident, and Utopian Founder, 1878-1961