Item Detail
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5323
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13
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English
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Extracting Social Scientific Models from Mormon History
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 1999
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25
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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174-94
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Rodney Stark presents his theories on how social relations and religious doctrine aid in conversion to a religious movement. He examines the early history of Mormonism and shows how familial ties and missionary efforts led to the popularity of Mormonism and compares this to the rise of Christianity. He goes back to the origins of various religious movements started by Muhammad, Joseph Smith, Jesus, and Moses. The model he proposes to explain the similarities between these religious leaders includes a culture of divine revelation, the leader receiving revelation that adds to or breaks away from orthodoxy, and then a familial network which accepts this revelation and spreads it to other social networks. Stark concludes by noting how the human aspect of divine revelation and conversion does not necessarily discredit adherents' claims of divine origins.
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