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The Mormon Experience: A HISTORY OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.33209
EAN: 9780252062360
Edition: 2 Sub
ISBN: 0252062361
Label: University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 456
Publication Date: March 01, 1992
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Studio: University of Illinois Press
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - History Amnesia
Yet another sanitized, truth-fearing, "just eat around the bad parts", documentary omitting the true extent of -
- "State of open rebellion". - 1857
- Removed Brigham Young from Office of Governor.
- Sedition
- Treason
- Arson
- Burglary
- "Apostate branding" ....punising sanctions.
- "Blood Oath of Vengeance"
- Blood Atonement
- Indian Massacres
(found guilty of "manslaughter"? ...eg."without malice?")
- Mountain Meadows ... Read More
Rating:  - An Excellent History by Mormon Historians
This book is scholarly and well documented, and Leonard J. Arrington and Davis Bitton are to be praised for giving a fair hearing to Fawn Brodie's "No Man Knows My History."
Speaking of the Book of Mormon (p. 15), they write: "Fawn Brodie, Joseph Smith's eminent but unsympathetic biographer, has advanced the second principal countertheory of the book's orgins." They then go on to fully present Brodie's view of Joseph Smith.
Continuing, Arrington and Bitton present the Mormon ... Read More
Rating: - TAKE A PEEK AT WORLD'S FASTEST GROWING FAITH
Although described as a history, this book is actually more of a description of Mormonism and the Mormon lifestyle. We are told a good deal about how the Saints spend their time and just how much effort must be devoted to church affairs. The last chapters describe how followers have responded to the challenge of modernism, already facing the church by the 1970's.
But don't get me wrong, there is quite a bit of history here nonetheless, and the author spends a lot of time explaining ... Read More
Rating: - This is not history, but rather a defense of Mormonism
Although I am not a Mormon, I am interested in the church's history, but I have had trouble finding unbiased sources. Misled by some Amazon reviews, I purchased this book because I believed it was objective, but it is not. It is actually a defense of the LDS church in Utah (as distinguished from other Mormon denominations). In fact, both authors are True Believers, and Arrington was the church's official "historian" from 1972 to 1982. The following example illustrates the bias that permeates this book. ... Read More
Rating: - Must read on Mormon history
As someone who has read many, many books on the topic of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I can honestly say that this text is one of the best books on Mormon history I have so far come across. I believe that the late Arrington and Bitton do an excellent job in providing a fair and balanced overview of the Latter-day Saint religion since 1820, as well as refuting some common anti-Mormon claims, showing that, contra the late Wesley Walters, author of "Inventing Mormonism" and other screeds, religious ... Read More
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