The Missouri Mormon experience Cover Image

Book

The Missouri Mormon experience / edited by Thomas M. Spencer.

Summary:

These nine essays explain why Missouri had an important place in the theology of 1830s Mormonism and was envisioned as the site of a grand temple. The essays also look at interpretations of the massacre, the response of Columbia's more moderate citizens to imprisoned church leader, and Mormon migration through the state over the thirty years following their expulsion.--[book jacket].

Record details

ISBN: 9780826218872
Physical Description: vi, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher: Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, 2010.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction: Persecution in the most odious sense of the word / Thomas M. Spencer -- The Missouri context of antebellum Mormonism and its legacy of violence / Kenneth H. Winn -- Reassessing Joseph Smith's appointed time for the redemption of zion / Ronald E. Romig and Michael S. Riggs -- Mormonism, millenarianism, and Missouri / Grant Underwood -- The great temple of the New Jerusalem / Richard O. Cowan -- The Mormon Temple site at Far West, Caldwell County, Missouri / Alexander L. Baugh -- Was this really Missouri civilization?: the Haun's Mill Massacre in Missouri and Mormon history / Thomas M. Spencer -- But for the kindness of strangers: the Columbia, Missouri, response to the Mormon prisoners and the jailbreak of July 1839 / Jean A. Pry and Dale A. Whitman -- Lessons learned: the Nauvoo Legion and what the Mormons learned militarily in Missouri / Richard E. Bennett -- Between the borders: Mormon transmigration through Missouri, 1838-1868 / Fred E. Woods.