Item Detail
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9335
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Journal Article
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English
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Bitton, Davis, Bunker, Gary L.
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Mesmerism and Mormonism
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BYU Studies
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Winter 1975
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15
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1975
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146-70
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"On 2 May 1842 the Times and Seasons reprinted an article from the New York Weekly Herald which suggested that Joseph Smith was, unknowingly, practicing animal magnetism. This was the first effort to explain Mormonism in terms of animal magnetism, mesmerism, or their more respectable counterpart, hypnotism. Since Church leaders made repeated efforts to discourage any participation in such experiments, the persistence of claims that Mormonism relied on the powers of mesmerism is ironic to say the least. It was not the first time, nor the last, that Mormons were accused of practices they had clearly opposed. It is another instance of the wide chasm separating the Mormon religion and its history from the images purveyed in popular writings that established the stereotype of Mormonism." [Publisher's abstract]
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'In the Toils,' or 'Onward for Zion' : Images of the Mormon Woman, 1852-1890
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
Early Days of Mormonism, Palmyra, Kirtland, and Nauvoo
Expose? of Polygamy in Utah
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Intolerable Zion : The Image of Mormonism in Nineteenth Century American Literature
Mormonism's Encounter with Spiritualism
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Origin, Rise and Progress of Mormonism
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
The Image of Mormonism in French Literature : Part I
The Stenhouses and the Making of a Mormon Image