Item Detail
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6234
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4
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32
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English
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'Many Mansions' : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Nineteenth-Century Reorganized Church
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Journal of Mormon History
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1991
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17
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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145-68
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Freedom of thought and expression have been an important part of the RLDS Church from its earliest years. He traces the legacy of independent- mindedness back to the very beginnings of the Church. He reviews some of the incidents of dissent during the Kirtland period, in Missouri, and in Nauvoo. The RLDS Church was born out of the dissident elements of the early LDS Church. Early RLDS Church members were repelled by what they considered abuses of authority, church involvement in politics and economic activities, and certain religious doctrines and practices such as temple rituals, plural marriage, and the political kingdom of God. This strong sense of democracy in Church government and independent-mindedness encouraged a tradition of dissent which fueled periodic turmoil and crises in the RLDS Church when members perceived that their autonomy was being trampled.
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An RLDS Reformation? Construing the Task of RLDS Theology
Bank Born of Revelation : The Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company
Centrifugal Tendencies in Mormon History
Cultural Crisis in the Mormon Kingdom : A Reconsideration of the Causes of Kirtland Dissent
Joseph, Brigham and the Twelve : A Succession of Continuity
Joseph Smith III : Pragmatic Prophet
Lamoni : Crucible for Pluralism in the Reorganization Church
Life of Joseph the Prophet
Mesmerism and Mormonism
Mormonism on the Defensive : Far West, 1838-1839
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
Oliver Cowdery : The Elusive Second Elder of the Restoration
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints : Moderate Mormonism
Return to Carthage: Writing the History of Joseph Smith's Martyrdom
The 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
The Disaffection of William Law
The Effect of Mormon Organizational Boundaries on Group Cohesion
The Evolution of the Presiding Quorums of the LDS Church
The Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society
The Heavens Resound : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838
The History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
The Memoirs of President Joseph Smith III (1832-1914)
The Mormon Economy in Kirtland, Ohio
The Mormons
The RLDS Church and Biblical Criticism: The Early Response
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Suppression of the Nauvoo Expositor
'True Son of a True Father' : Joseph Smith III and the Succession Question
William Law, Nauvoo Dissenter
Zion's Camp : Expedition to Missouri, 1834