Item Detail
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4427
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30
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English
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The Religious Backgrounds of Mormon Converts in Britain, 1837-52
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Journal of Mormon History
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1977
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4
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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51-66
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Thorp studied the religious backgrounds of Mormonism's first English converts using surviving diaries, journals, reminiscences, and some family histories. In so doing, the author compiled almost 300 case studies. While these were not scientifically selelcted, Thorp argued that 'general indications of religious behavior can be observed.' (p. 52) The resulting picture is in conflict with E. P. Thompson's model that Mormonism was a 'reflex of despair' generated by the unsettled economic conditions of the time. Rather, Thorp finds the Mormon convert to be primarily motivated by religion. 'It was the unsettled religious conditions in the 1840s that offer the key to understanding Mormon successes. The strength of the movement lay in its ability to appeal to the disaffected from the sectarian congragations, and to inculcate within them the desire to build the kingdom in the last days. Conversely, the major limitation of the movement appears to have been its inability to appeal to those outside the perimeter of Christian fundamentalism.' (p. 65)
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