Item Detail
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9335
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7
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12
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English
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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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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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American Apocrypha : Essays on the Book of Mormon
An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creation ex nihilo
'Many Mansions' : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Nineteenth-Century Reorganized Church
Polygamous Eyes : A Note on Mormon Physiognomy
The Village Enlightenment in America : Science and the Emergence of New Religious Ideas, 1830 - 1860
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy -
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
'In the Toils,' or 'Onward for Zion' : Images of the Mormon Woman, 1852-1890
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
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
The Image of Mormonism in French Literature : Part I
The Stenhouses and the Making of a Mormon Image