Item Detail
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3537
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7
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21
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English
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The New England Origins of Mormonism Revisited
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Journal of Mormon History
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1989
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15
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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15-25
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[1990 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Article]
In an article published in 1953, David Brion Davis hypothesized that Mormonism was not a frontier phenomenon, rather it was more closely related with seventeenth-century Puritanism. Underwood analyzes Davis' hypothesis by testing its claims against the research findings of Mormon history which have been published in the last thirty-five years. After review, Underwood admits that there were similarities between Puritanism and Mormonism. However, a review of both Mormon and Puritan historiography of the last several decades tends to make Mormonism look less like Puritanism than it did in the thinking of historians in the 1950s. Both Mormonism and Puritanism appear less countercultural, less exceptional. Even New England appears less distinctive and more integrated into the larger transatlantic community. He concludes that an important lesson evident in this study is that there are some very real complexities in tracing the origins of a religious movement which are frequently overlooked in the process of creating new historical perspectives.
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