Mormonism: A Gold Plated Religion
This new series offers a clear, down-to-earth summary of what each group believes, insights on common misunderstandings and how to correct them, and tips on witnessing to your friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Available December 2006.
Daniel H. Olsen, ®Tourism and Informal Pilgrimage among the Latter-day Saints, ̄ in Tourism, Religion, and Spiritual Journeys, edited by Dallen J. Timothy and Daniel H. Olson (London: Routledge, 2006), 254¥270.
See also Daniel Bachman and Ronald Esplin, “Plural Marriage,” in Encyclopedia of Mormonism, 4 vols., ed. Daniel H. Ludlow (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 3:1091–95. JD 3:266. Daniel Bachman and Ronald Esplin, “Plural Marriage,” in ...
Mormonism: A Latter Day Deception
Written by Richard Lyman Bushman, an eminent historian and practicing Mormon, this compact, informative volume ranges from the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the contentious issues of contemporary Mormonism.
Why was Utah chosen as a place of refuge? Do you have to believe the Book of Mormon to be a Latter-day Saint? Why do women not hold the priesthood? How wealthy is the church and how much are top leaders paid?
Note, however, that these were the years in which "muckraking" was the heart of American journalism and that the Saints did not escape the muckraker's attention. Muckraking articles charged that the Mormon Church controlled the entire ...
Mormonism is one of the fastest growing, most misunderstood, and most debated religions of recent times. Even the simple act of defining WHAT Mormonism is (or should be) has been...
Together, these essays and entries, along with revealing primary sources, portray the Mormon experience like no other available reference work. 140 entries on individuals, places, events, and issues An overview section of six essays tracing ...
Written by Richard Lyman Bushman, an eminent historian and practicing Mormon, this compact, informative volume ranges from the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the contentious issues of contemporary Mormonism.
For those unfamiliar with Mormonism, here is a brief history and a look at the religion's key teachings. Farkas and Reed point out what they believe to be the myriad inconsistencies, errors, and absurdities of Mormonism.
Mormonism is one of the fastest growing, most misunderstood, and most debated religions of recent times. Even the simple act of defining WHAT Mormonism is (or should be) has been filled with controversy.
About the Book Books about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the Mormon Church, discuss the history and the life of its leaders, like Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and its development in the State of Utah and abroad.
Avoiding the textbook, narrative approach of most introductions, this volume instead poses well over a hundred commonly asked questions--and some not so common!--and provides thoughtful, short essays in response.
This is the first introductory text on Mormonism that tracks not only the mainstream LDS but also two other streams within the movement--the liberalized RLDS and the polygamous Fundamentalists--thus showing how Mormons have pursued ...
Mormonism: Or, Life Among the Mormons: Being an Autobiographical Sketch; Including an Experience of Fourteen Years of Mormon Life
Together, these essays and entries, along with revealing primary sources, portray the Mormon experience like no other available reference work.