Scattering of the saints :schism within Mormonism /edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and John C. Hamer ; [foreword by Steven L. Shields].

Name/Title

Scattering of the saints :schism within Mormonism /edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and John C. Hamer ; [foreword by Steven L. Shields].

Description

Whitmer family beliefs and their Church of Christ / Erin B. Jennings -- David Whitmer : his evolving beliefs and recollections / H. Michael Marquardt -- Lyman Wight and the Texas option of 1844 : a forgotten Mormon alternative / Michael Scott Van Wagenen -- William Smith's quest for ecclesiastical station : a schismatic odyssey, 1844-93 / Kyle R. Walker -- Mormons seeking Mormonism : Strangite success and the conceptualization of Mormon ideology, 1844-50 / Robin Scott Jensen -- From Strangites to Reorganized Latter Day Saints : transformation in Midwestern Mormonism, 1856-79 / Vickie Cleverley Speek -- Back to Zion : the emergence of the Church of Jesus Christ (Cutlerite) and its return to Independence, Missouri / Danny L. Jorgensen -- The Cutlerite migration to Minnesota : an epic perilous journey into Diaspora / Michael S. Riggs -- The Church of Jesus Christ ( headquartered in Monongahela, Pennsylvania), its history and doctrine / Larry Watson -- The Church of Christ (Temple Lot), its emergence, struggles and early schisms / R. Jean Addams -- Scattering of the Hedrickites / Jason R. Smith -- Amasa Lyman's dissent and his rejected 1872 overture to the RLDS Church / Edward Leo Lyman -- Fundamentalist Mormonism : its history, diversity and stereotypes, 1886-present / Anne Wilde -- The persistence of plural marriage with mainstream Mormonism : the example of the Barr and Mary Lance Musser family / Craig L. Foster -- The Restoration Branch movement : bodily boundaries and bodily crossings among RLDS fundamentalists / David J. Howlett -- Is God the ultimate practical joker? : a commentary on schism in the Latter Day Saint movement / Roger D. Launius. x, 347 p. :ill., maps, ports. ;26 cm.

Book Details

Place Published

City

Independence, Mo.

Date Published

2007

Publication Subjects

Mormon Church--History. Christian sects. Schism.

Call No.

BX8611 .S337 2007

ISBN

9781934901021, 1934901024

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references.