Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History
2007; Oxford University Press; Volume: 94; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/25094962
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Archaeology and Natural History
ResumoJoseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Richard Lyman Bushman's biography of the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith, is the crowning achievement of the new Mormon history, an in tellectual and historiographical movement that carried the story of the Latter-day Saints into the cultural mainstream just as Mormonism itself was moving in from the margins to find a place on the American religious landscape as a respectable belief system and an upstanding faith community.1 Still embryonic in the 1950s, this intellectual wave did not fully take shape as a movement until a substantial cohort of young members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah (the lds Church), and the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints headquartered in Independence, Missouri (the rlds Church), earned their doctorates in history from reputable graduate schools outside the Mormon culture region.2 Bushman, a lifelong member of the lds Church who earned his degree at Harvard University, was one of this band of well-schooled scholars.
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