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3912
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English
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Some Comparative Perspectives on the Early Mormon Movement and the Church-State Question, 1830-1845
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Journal of Mormon History
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1981
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8
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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63-77
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Wilson sees early Mormonism like other new religious groups in formation: 'Strong figuralism, significant millenarian convictions, pronounced ecstatic elements, and inventive or improvised organizational forms.' We should properly interpret Mormonism as a new culture-in-the-making. A new social world was in the process of being defined, and thus the old world was outmoded for those who became committed to it.' As a result, Mormons developed 'the two kingdoms or two realms pattern which is so deeply embedded in the Christian tradition. . . .Adoption of this two-fold pattern as a means of defining church-state issues often means devalution of this world in comparison with the next, or de-emphasis of the realm of governmental affairs in relationship to the religious realm. This devaluation does not take place in the early Mormon movement. . . .In the early 1840s, even after the Mormons experienced frustration with the government, their emphasis began to turn to the possibilities of using the government and directing it toward the realization of religious ends through a new interpretation of the Constitution.
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Early Mormon Millenarianism : Another Look
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Mormons, Freethinkers, and the Limits of Toleration
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures : The First Twenty Years
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900