Return to the City of Joseph - Modern Mormonisms Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo Esplin Scott C.Paperback / softback
Return to the City of Joseph - Modern Mormonisms Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo Esplin Scott C.Paperback / softback In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS)…
Specifikacia Return to the City of Joseph - Modern Mormonisms Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo Esplin Scott C.Paperback / softback
Return to the City of Joseph - Modern Mormonisms Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo Esplin Scott C.Paperback / softback
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844. Yet Nauvoo's dramatic restoration proved fraught with conflicts. Scott C. The quiet farm town became a major Mormon heritage site visited annually by tens of thousands of people.
The Latter-day Saint project brought it into conflict with the Community of Christ, the Midwestern branch of Mormonism that had kept a foothold in the town and a claim on its Smith-related sites. Esplin's social history looks at how Nauvoo's different groups have sparred over heritage and historical memory. Non-Mormon locals, meanwhile, sought to maintain the historic place of ancestors who had settled in Nauvoo after the Latter-day Saints' departure.
Examining the recent and present-day struggles to define the