Samuel Morris Brown

In Heaven as It Is on Earth

Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death

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Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.

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A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Brown's In Heaven as It Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of founder Joseph Smith's profound preoccupation with the specter of death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 846g
• ISBN-13: 9780199793570
• ISBN-10: 0199793573
• Artikelnr.: 34157556

Autorenporträt

Samuel Brown is Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Utah and the translator of Aleksandr Men's Son of Man.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Death, Dying, and the Dead
* Chapter 1. ''Melancholly Reflections'': Joseph Smith and Holy Dying
* Chapter 2. The Corpse and its Rest
* Chapter 3. Relics, Graves, and the Treasure Quest
* Chapter 4. Hallowed Ground: Tombs, Indians, and Eden
* Chapter 5. Seerhood, Pure Language, and the Silence of the Grave
* Part II: Everlasting Communities
* Chapter 6. The New and Everlasting Covenant
* Chapter 7. Negotiating Death and Afterlife in Nauvoo
* Chapter 8. The ''Lineage of my Preast Hood'' and the Chain of
Belonging
* Chapter 9. Divine Anthropology: Translating the Suprahuman Chain
* Chapter 10. ''Death Cannot Conquer the Hero Again'': The Death and
Afterlife of a Martyr