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Van Wagoner, Richard S.

Sidney Rigdon : A Portrait of Religious Excess

Salt Lake City

Signature Books

1994

[1995 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Biography]

Dissent and dissenters, 19th century
Biographies, male, 19th century (books)
Award Winner
Rigdon, Sidney

A City of Refuge : Quincy
A Historical Note on Joseph Smith's 1836 Visit to the East India Marine Society Museum in Salem ,Massachusetts
Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith
Alexander William Doniphan and the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Amasa Mason Lyman, Mormon Apostle and Apostate : A Study in Dedication
A Matter of Many Wives: Joseph Smith's Courting in Secret Nauvoo
A Member of the Family : Dr. John Milton Bernhisel and the Aftermath of the Death of Joseph Smith
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon
Anabaptism, the Book of Mormon, and the Peace Church Option
An Examination of the Mormon Doctrine of Creation and a Defense of Creation ex nihilo
Archive of Restoration Culture: Summer Fellows' Papers 1997-1999
"Archives of the Better World": The Nineteenth-Century Historian's Office and Mormonism's Archival Flexibility
A Tale of Two Mormons
A Time of Transition : The Kirtland Temple, 1838-1880
Authority and Priesthood in the LDS Church, Part 2 : Ordinances, Quorums, Nonpriesthood Authority, Presiding, Priestesses, and Priesthood Bans
A Wary Heart Becomes "Fixed Unalterably" : Eliza R. Snow's Conversion to Mormonism
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Between Christian Morality and Divine Passibility : Latter-day Saint Reflections on the Passions in Nineteenth-Century Utah
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Brigham Young and The Twelve in Quincy : A Return to the Eye of the Missouri Storm, 26 April 1839
Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
"Called by a New Name" : Mission, Identity, and the Reorganized Church
Changing Revelatory Messages : A Mormon Example
Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839
Confession in LDS Doctrine and Practice
"Denying the Undeniable" : Examining Early Mormon Polygamy Renunciations
Doctor Philastus Hurlbut : Originator of Derogatory Statements About Joseph Smith, Jr
Documents
Documents, Volume 6: February 1838-August 1839
Doing the Works of Abraham : Mormon Polygamy―Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
Early Mormon Marriage, Family, and Networks of Kinship : Begets and horizontal Genealogy in the Case of the Later Cutlerites at Nauvoo
East of Nauvoo: Benjamin Winchester and the Early Mormon Church
Egalitarian Transformation : Gender, Religious Culture and Family Government on the Western Reserve of Ohio, 1800-1830
Eighth Witness : The Biography of John Whitmer
Expose? of Polygamy : A Lady's Life Among the Mormons
Faith and intellect : The lives and contributions of Latter-day Saint thinkers
Fanny Alger and Joseph Smith's Pre-Nauvoo Reputation
From Mission to Madness : Last Son of the Mormon Prophet
From Monogamy to Polygamy and Back Again
: Changing Marriage Practices Among the Strangites
Gathering the Remnants : Establishing the RLDS Church in Southwestern Iowa
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Getting the Cosmology Right
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Grandison Newell's Obsession
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Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
In Pursuit of the True Church : The Attraction of Restorationism on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier : Sidney Rigdon, the Disciples of Christ, and the Mormons
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Last Rites and the Dynamics of Mormon Liturgy
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LDS Misconceptions about the Community of Christ
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Mormonism 101 : Examining the Religion of the Latter-day Saints
Mormon Parallels : A Bibliographic Source
Mormon Priesthood and Organization
Mortal Enemies : Mormons and Missourians 1839-1844
Naturalistic Explanations of the Origin of the Book of Mormon : A Longitudinal Study
Oliver Cowdery : Scribe, Elder, Witness : Essays from BYU Studies and FARMS
Oliver Cowdery's Vermont Years and the Origins of Mormonism
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Polygamy on the Pedernales : Lyman Wight's Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845 to 1858
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Revelations in Context: The Stories Behind the Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants
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Scattering of the Saints : Schism within Mormonism
Scottish Shepherd : The Life and Times of John Murray Murdoch, Utah Pioneer
Scriptures for the Children of Zion: The Revelations of Sidney and Phebe Rigdon
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'Simply Folly' : Stephen Post and the Children of Zion
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
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Telling the Nauvoo Story
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The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context: The 37th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
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The Field is White: Harvest in the Three Counties of England
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The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 2 : July 1831–January 1833
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 6 : February 1838–August 1839
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The Kingdom and the Church : The Anointed, the Fifty, and Alpheus Cutler's Claims
The Life of Dr. Frederick G. Williams :
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