How Joseph Smith and the Early Mormons Challenged American ...

In Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith established a theocracy, ran for President, and tested the limits of religious freedom.

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Joseph Smith (1805-1844) | American Experience - PBS

Smith's reach continued to expand as the Mormon Church grew. As ever-increasing numbers of the prophet's followers settled in the region and as their influence ...

The Joseph Smith Revelations and the Crisis of Early American ...

Joseph Smith and early Mormonism thus mirror the Revolutionary-era prophets Susan Juster describes as having both “fed on and repudiated the evangelical ethos” ...

Mormons | The New Yorker

How Joseph Smith and the Early Mormons Challenged American Democracy ... In Nauvoo, Illinois, Smith established a theocracy, ran for President, and tested the ...

Joseph Smith's Brutal Test of Faith - BYUH News

Partially because President Smith misspelled Ryder's name, he refused to serve. Later, in a local newspaper, Ryder challenged the Prophet to a ...

Joseph Smith's Kingdom of God: The Council of Fifty and the ...

More than a significant moment in the development of America's largest home-grown religion, however, Joseph Smith's controversial organization ...

A Prophet Without Honor - The American Scholar

Joseph Smith, known to his Latter-day Saint followers as “the prophet,” more or less invented the Mormon religion during the early 19th century.

Mormon-Missouri War of 1838

The Mormon-Missouri War marked the end of the Church's early presence in Missouri. Joseph Smith's vision of building a “Zion” community of righteous Saints ...

Joseph Smith and Diabolism in Early Mormonism 1815-1831

3 In this cultural milieu,. Joseph Smith became an American Prophet and founded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints. Prophets are figures imbued ...

Joseph Smith and Power - Religious Studies Center

Is any of this applicable to Mormonism? Weber's analysis has naturally been applied to Joseph Smith, who was by all accounts a charismatic leader of the first ...

3 3 Joseph Smith, American Culture, and the Origins of Mormonism

In the case of Catholicism, there could be cultural differences with Protestants that were absent vis-à-vis early Mormon converts, most of whom had Protestant ...

The Mormons - Digital History

Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Universalist preachers eagerly sought converts. Fourteen year old Joseph Smith, Jr., the son of a migrant farmer, listened ...

Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassin, and the Fight ...

Still, the political standing of the Mormon people remained unstable. Unable to garner federal protection or the support of President Martin Van ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and politics in the ...

Early in its history, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) had a series of negative encounters with the federal government of the ...

To Bigotry No Sanction: The Challenge to Religious Freedom and ...

Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born in 1805 in Sharon, Vermont. At age 14, he described a vision ...

Early Mormonism - The Imaginative Conservative

While praying one night in 1820, Smith claimed to have been visited by God the Father and Jesus Christ. They told him that Christianity had been ...

Joseph Smith's Challenging Brother | Meridian Magazine

The twelve years following his dramatic departure from Nauvoo were equally turbulent as he roared through various factions of the LDS movement.

Nineteenth-Century American Religion and Politics in the West

27Richard Bushman, “Joseph Smith's Presidential Ambitions” in Mormonism and American ... appears in Doctrine and Covenants, Joseph Smith instructs ...

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