Item Detail
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8014
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20
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20
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English
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Quest for Refuge : An Hypothesis as to the Social Origins and Nature of the Mormon Political Kingdom
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Journal of Mormon History
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1975
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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3-20
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This paper continues the historiographical argument on the origins of Mormonism. In 1950 Whitney Cross's BURNED-OVER DISTRICT had posited that Mormonism, like the other social movements of upstate New York, reflected rural maturation rather than a Turnerian frontier influences. While accepting the idea that Mormon origins reflected rural ecology, Mario DePillis modified Cross's position by suggesting that converts came from the West, not New England or New York. Hill further modifies this thesis by combining it with recent findings about the Kingdom of God. 'It seems likely that the Mormons reacted against the disintegration of the rural, socially harmonious village community with its dominant religious orientation which its leaders had known in New England, and the triumph of a commercially oriented, acquisitive, openly pluralistic and competitive, and implicitly secular, social and religous order in western York. The early Mormons, I would argue, were fugitives from social change and political and social conflict, their Kingdom of God a refuge.' (pp. 4-5)
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