The Mormon Experience: A History of the Latter-Day SaintsUniversity of Illinois Press, 1992 - 414 pages The best history of the Latter-Day Saints addressed to a general audience now includes a new preface, an epilogue, and a bibliographical afterword. "This is without a doubt the definitive Mormon history".--Library Journal. |
Contents
The Beginnings | 3 |
The Appeals of Mormonism | 20 |
Early Persecutions | 44 |
Triumph and Tragedy In The City of Joseph | 65 |
Dispersion and the Exodus under Brigham Young | 83 |
The Kingdom in the West | 107 |
The Challenge of Building the Kingdom | 109 |
Immigration and Diversity | 127 |
The Modern Church | 241 |
Church and Kingdom Creative Adjustment and Reinvigoration | 243 |
The Temporal Foundation | 262 |
In the World Institutional Responses | 284 |
Group Personality The Unsponsored Sector | 308 |
Epilogue | 337 |
First Presidencies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints | 347 |
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