Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion (repost)
Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion By Ronald G. Watt
Publisher: Utah State University Press 2009 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0874217563 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: Utah State University Press 2009 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0874217563 | PDF | 2 MB
Nineteenth-century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it also was a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly gained an international, if initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix brought it a roster of interesting characters: frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social engineers. Althoughthe Mormon elite soon took on, as elites do, a rather fixed, dynastic character, the social origins of its first-generation members were quite diverse.