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A Mormon Odyssey

Author : Larry Braithwaite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781413418798
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book A Mormon Odyssey written by Larry Braithwaite and published by . This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mormon Odyssey takes the reader into the heart and soul of a Mormon couple who discover that the religion of their heritage is laced with a web of lies, deceit, and cover-up. They began their journeys separately, each motivated by a desire to learn the unvarnished truth about the religion they had come to embrace. As they followed the trail of Mormonism from before its inception they discovered a history at odds with itself, where truth was illusive and nothing was what it seemed. Join their heart-wrenching journey through Mormonism and beyond. Based upon the personal experiences of the author and her husband followed by an in-depth research into the original documentation of the religion, they learn things about the Mormon Church and themselves that they never dreamed. Their integrity is tested, their minds are challenged, and their hearts are broken. It took tremendous courage and commitment to take such a journey but in the end they have triumphed, discovering that spirituality lives in the heart of the individual not in religious doctrine. A Mormon Odyssey is so touching, so informative, and so thoroughly documented that it may well change the reader's life.

Mormon Odyssey

Author : Ida Hunt Udall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mormon Odyssey written by Ida Hunt Udall and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ida Frances Hunt Udall (1858-1915) was born in Hamilton's Fort, Utah to John and Lois Barnes Pratt Hunt. She spent the first few years of her life in San Bernardino, California and then moved with her family to Beaver, Utah where she grew into young womanhood. In 1877 she moved with her parents to New Mexico where she lived off and on for several years. In 1882 Ida married Bishop David King Udall (1851-1938) of St. John's, Arizona as his plural wife. Her life was difficult as a plural wife as she had to live on the Mormon "underground" from the law and John eventually spent time in prison for unlawful cohabitation. Between 1905 and 1910 Ida suffered several strokes and was in very poor health for the remainder of her life. She and David were the perents of six children. Descendants live throughout the western United States.

The Mormon Delusion

Author : Jim Whitefield
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409292487
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Mormon Delusion written by Jim Whitefield and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third in a series of books exposing the truth behind Mormonism. In this volume, we review doctrines that have been discarded. To early Mormons, Adam was God and blood atonement was a stark reality. These were accepted doctrines which survived for several decades throughout the leadership of several successive prophets. Today, the Church denies they even existed. The origin of the Mormon temple ceremony is established and explained. An analysis of changes over the years shows that the rites now enacted bear no resemblance to the original ceremonies Joseph Smith lifted from late eighteenth century Masonic ritual, claiming they were restored from the time of Solomon. The psychology of a Mormon testimony is explored and explained. Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants are exposed as completely unfulfilled nonsense that Mormons simply cannot see through as long as blind faith precludes rational thinking. Visit www.themormondelusion.com for further information on this and other volumes.

Mormon History

Author : Ronald Warren Walker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252026195
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Mormon History written by Ronald Warren Walker and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mormon Mirage

Author : Latayne C. Scott
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310873266
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Mormon Mirage written by Latayne C. Scott and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first edition of The Mormon Mirage, Latayne C. Scott shared her remarkable journey out of Mormonism as she uncovered shocking inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and contradictions in the faith she had loved and lived. Thirty years later, Mormonism and Mormon scholarship have evolved with the times. In this third, revised and updated edition of her well-known book, Scott keeps pace with changes and advances in Mormonism, and reveals formidable new challenges to its claims and teachings. The Mormon Mirage provides fascinating, carefully documented insights into • DNA research’s withering implications for the Book of Mormon • the impact of new “revelations” on Latter-day Saint (LDS) race relations • new findings about Mormon history • increasing publicity about LDS splinter groups, particularly polygamous ones • recent disavowals of long-held doctrines by church leadership • the rise of Mormon apologetics on the Internet More than a riveting, insider’s scrutiny of the Mormon faith, this book is a testimony to the trustworthiness of Scripture and the grace of Jesus Christ.

The A to Z of Mormonism

Author : Davis Bitton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810870606
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The A to Z of Mormonism written by Davis Bitton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mormonism is the unofficial name for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which originated in the early 1800s. Mormonism refers to the doctrines taught by Joseph Smith, doctrines that are believed to be original gospel preached by Jesus Christ. The Mormons oppose abortion, homosexuality, unmarried sexual acts, pornography, gambling, tobacco, consuming alcohol, tea, coffee, and the use of drugs. Despite its relatively young age, the Mormon Church continues to grow, and today it contains about 13 million members. The A to Z of Mormonism relates the history of the Mormon church through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial persons, organizations, churches, beliefs, and events. Clearing up many of the misconceptions held about Mormonism and its members, this is an essential reference.

Mormon Passage

Author : Gary Shepherd
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066627
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Mormon Passage written by Gary Shepherd and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first to present detailed, first-person accounts of the Mormon missionary experience. Armed with little more than youthful vigor and firmly held religious convictions, twins Gary and Gordon Shepherd left their home in Salt Lake City in 1964 for two years as missionaries in Mexico. Mormon Passage is one result of that experience, a combination of diaries and field notes kept by the two during their mission and sociological analyses of their experiences. The brothers' goal is to help readers understand the consequences of the missionary experience for the vitality of Mormon religious life. "Seldom has excellent research been woven so tightly with personal experience. . . . Very well written, a compelling narrative and an absorbing analysis." -- Lavina Fielding Anderson, coeditor of Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective

Harry Mount's Odyssey

Author : Harry Mount
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472904680
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Harry Mount's Odyssey written by Harry Mount and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Mount's Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus is a journey round Greece inspired by the heroes, locations and tales of the Odyssey and tracing ancient Greek civilization at its height. Architecture, art, sculpture, economics, mathematics, science, metaphysics, comedy, tragedy, drama and epic poetry were all devised and perfected by the Greeks. Of the four classical orders of architecture, three were invented by the Greeks and the fourth, the only one the Romans could come up with, was a combination of two of the former.The powerful ghost of ancient Greece still lingers on in the popular mind as the first great civilization and one of the most influential in the creation of modern thought. It is the starting block of Western European civilization. In his new Odyssey, eminent writer Harry Mount tells the story of ancient Greece while on the trail of its greatest son, Odysseus. In the charming, anecdotal style of his bestselling Amo, Amas, Amat and All That, Harry visits Troy, still looming over the plain where Achilles dragged Hector's body through the dust, and attempts to swim the Hellespont, in emulation of Lord Byron and the doomed Greek lover, Leander. Whether in Odysseus's kingdom on Ithaca, Homer's birthplace of Chios or the Minotaur's lair on Crete, Mount brings the Odyssey - and ancient Greece - back to life.

A Mormon Odyssey

Author : Newell G. Bringhurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book A Mormon Odyssey written by Newell G. Bringhurst and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

My Own Pioneers 1830-1918

Author : Kathryn J. Kappler
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478737026
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book My Own Pioneers 1830-1918 written by Kathryn J. Kappler and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the fascinating true stories of one family through the Mormon pioneer era—stories that follow four generations and several of the author’s family lines as they and their fellow pioneers help shape the early history of the Mormon Church, the American West, and even Mexico. This memorable journey is the culmination of fifteen years of painstaking research as the author carefully reconstructs the pioneer struggles from before 1830 to 1918 using information from family journals, memoirs, histories and letters. Volume III (The Last Pioneers/Refuge in Mexico, 1876-1918) concludes the family history by explaining how polygamous family pioneers moved from Utah to settle Arizona and New Mexico; how the pioneers faced Indian and mob threats again in their new home; how, because of polygamy, the threat of imprisonment forced the settlers to flee into Mexico, where they battled Indians and the elements, adjusted to Mexican culture and citizenship, and prospered; how they were soon victims of the Mexican Revolution, caught between two marauding armies; and how they were finally forced back across the border as impoverished refugees in the very states they had once pioneered. My Own Pioneers is an important work illuminating the legacy of the Mormon pioneers. It is a compilation of true chronological accounts through which their lives, their sacrifices, and their considerable accomplishments, despite terrible hardship, may be honored. With its extensive index, this book provides an excellent research tool for academics as well as history enthusiasts; and it uplifts every reader by showcasing the enduring strength and mighty faith of these pioneers.

The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925

Author : Joan Smyth Iversen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135594651
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925 written by Joan Smyth Iversen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first study of the antipolygamy movement in the United States traces its growth from a Utah-based women's group into a national crusade where it sparked a debate in suffrage politics. The author analyzes this debate, highlighting the differing views of marriage, family, and the role of women held by suffrage leaders, Mormon women, and antipolygamy reformers. Antipolygamy rhetoric masked a more significant debate within women's groups about the structure and meaning of the American family. Coming in the post-Civil War period, the antipolygamy agenda reflects an attempt to re-construct the Republican family, diminish patriarchal authority, and improve the status of women. The reaction of the antipolygamy women was also more than a struggle for power. Their adherence to the Republican family was a discourse involving not just rhetoric, but a whole range of cultural forms and institutions which provided women with status, moral authority, and an identity. Often the fear of polygamy was mingled with anxiety over the increase in divorce and the emergence of the new woman. Ironically, by the end of the long congressional battle over Utah and the Mormons, both the rhetoric of polygamy and antipolygamy were used against the women's movement.

Mo

Author : Donald W. Carson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532966
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Mo written by Donald W. Carson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody liked Mo. Throughout his political life— and especially during his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976— thousands of people were drawn to Arizona congressman Morris K. Udall by his humor, humanity, and courage. This biography traces the remarkable career of the candidate who was "too funny to be president" and introduces readers to Mo the politician, Mo the environmentalist, and Mo the man. Journalists Donald Carson and James Johnson interviewed more than one hundred of Udall's associates and family members to create an unusually rich portrait. They recall Udall's Mormon boyhood in Arizona when he lost an eye at age six, his service during World War II, his brief career in professional basketball, and his work as a lawyer and county prosecutor, which earned him a reputation for fairness and openness. Mo provides the most complete record of Udall's thirty-year congressional career ever published. It reveals how he challenged the House seniority system and turned the House Interior Committee into a powerful panel that did as much to protect the environment as any organization in the twentieth century. It shows Udall to have been a consensus builder for environmental issues who paved the way for the Alaska Lands Act of 1980, helped set aside 2.4 million acres of wilderness in Arizona, and fought for the Central Arizona Project, one of the most ambitious water projects in U.S. history. Carson and Johnson record Udall's early opposition to the Vietnam War at a time when that conflict was largely perceived as a just cause, as well as his early advocacy of campaign finance reform. They also provide a behind-the-scenes account of his run for the presidency—the first House member to seek the office in nearly a century—which gained him an intensely loyal national following. Mo explores the paradoxes that beset Udall: He was a man able to accomplish things politically because people genuinely liked and respected him, yet he was a loner and workaholic whose focus on politics overshadowed his personal life. Carson and Johnson devote a chapter to the famous Udall sense of humor. They also look sensitively at his role as a husband and father and at his proud and stubborn bout with Parkinson's disease. Mo Udall will long be remembered for his contributions to environmental legislation, for his unflagging efforts in behalf of Arizona, and for the gentle humor with which he conducted his life. This book secures his legacy.

Seeking Truth

Author : Crae F. Hancock
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463485972
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book Seeking Truth written by Crae F. Hancock and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking Truth motivates a person to find truth. Most of us exist within a psychological illusion of the truth. This illusion of truth exists in a holographic sense. We literally exist within our thoughts. While covered within an analogous shell one filters any new ideas and thoughts through preconceived parameters. In this sense you could hear, see or experience bonafide truth but be unable to accept it as the truth for this reason the scientific method for establishing truth necessitates that an experiment must be performed time and time again with the same results. In common law the truth shall be established by two or more witnesses. May your shell illusion, vaporize. May you see, hear, understand and intuit truth.

Sojourner in the Promised Land

Author : Jan Shipps
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056310
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Sojourner in the Promised Land written by Jan Shipps and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infused with Jan Shipps’s lively curiosity, scholarly rigor, and contagious fascination with a significant subculture, Sojourner in the Promised Land presents a distinctive parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time shares with the reader what it has been like to be on the outside of a culture that remains both familiar and strange.

White Roses on the Floor of Heaven

Author : Susanna Morrill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415977355
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book White Roses on the Floor of Heaven written by Susanna Morrill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Victims

Author : Richard Eyring Turley
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252018855
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Victims written by Richard Eyring Turley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three pipe bombs exploded in Salt Lake County in 1985, killing two people. Behind the murders lay a vast forgery scheme aimed at dozens of other victims, most prominently the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mark Hofmann, a master forger, went to prison for the murders. He had bilked the church, document dealers, and collectors of hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years while attempting to alter Mormon history. Other false documents of Americana still circulate. The crimes garnered intense media interest, spawning books, TV and radio programs, and myriad newspaper and magazine articles. Victims is a thoughtful corrective to the more sensationalized accounts. More important, Richard Turley adds substantially to the record with previously unavailable church documentation and exclusive interviews with church officials, giving this book greater depth and resonance. He also goes beyond the Hofmann case, illustrating how forgeries have hampered the church's efforts to document its history. Victims includes a complete appendix of every known document the church acquired from Hofmann, reviews of trial transcripts and police reports, as well as dozens of photographs, some never before published. Turley, who gave up the practice of law to become a historian, has managed the delicate task of exposing the myths and complexities of this case with skill and objectivity. His unique access to church documents and personnel, together with his understanding of the legal system and Mormon history, afforded him an unparalleled view of how the case affected the church as well as the many others who were involved. Victims will fascinate anyone who does archival work, who cares aboutthe historical record, or who likes to read compelling mystery.

From the Outside Looking In

Author : Reid L. Neilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190244666
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book From the Outside Looking In written by Reid L. Neilson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains fifteen essays from leading historians and religious studies scholars, each originally presented as the annual Tanner lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association. Approaching Mormon history from a variety of angles, such as gender, identity creation, American imperialism, and globalization, these scholars, all experts in their fields but new to the study of Mormon history itself, ask intriguing questions about Mormonism's past and future and analyze familiar sources in unexpected ways.