Item Detail
-
6455
-
6
-
9
-
English
-
The Gathering of the Australian Saints in the 1850s
-
BYU Studies
-
Spring 1987
-
27
-
67-78
-
"The gathering of the Australian Saints in the 1850s offers a fruitful field for comparison with the work of historians on the emigration of the British Saints in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. While the British Mormon emigration to America must be viewed in context as part of a larger population movement, making it difficult to isolate motives, the Australian Mormon emigration was against the larger population movement. The doctrine of the gathering made The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unique in colonial Australia, as the missionaries recruited converts to help build their Zion in North America and led a miniemigration out of the Australian colonies in a period when the tide was flowing into the country. Although the number of Australian converts was extremely small in comparison with those from Britain, detailed examination of the known Australian converts makes possible a "microcosm" approach which helps illumine the larger picture." [Publisher's abstract]
-
Divine Providence : The Wreck and Rescue of the Julia Ann
Proclamation to the People : Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier
Racial Categories : Indigenous Australians and Mormonism, 1850s to Present
'Seduced Away' : Early Mormon Documents in Australia
Settling the Valley, Proclaiming the Gospel : The General Epistles of the Mormon First Presidency
The Consequential Dimension of Mormon Religiosity -
A Century of 'Mormonism' in Great Britain
Early Mormon Pamphleteering
Expectations Westward : The Mormons and the Emigration of Their British Converts in the Nineteenth Century
Mormonism's "Gathering" : An American Doctrine with a Difference
Social and Religious Origins of Early English Mormons
Southern Cross Saints : The Mormon Church in Australia
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
Unto the Islands of the Sea : A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific
Why Did British Mormons Emigrate?