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  • Seeing

    Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants

    Series series Themes in the Doctrine and Covenants
    In this introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants, Media Studies scholar Mason Kamana Allred focuses our vision on practices and principles of seeing. He looks at how looking itself is a unique devotional mode in Latter-day Saint belief.His reading of the Doctrine and Covenants collects theological statements about and experiences of spiritual vision and emphasizes how they are often activated ... Read more

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  • The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 8: FebruaryNovember 1841

    Nauvoo, Illinois, hummed with activity in early 1841 as Joseph Smith and the Latter-day Saints worked to develop the newly established city. They were busily engaged in building the civic infrastructure of their city, constructing the Nauvoo temple and a boardinghouse called the Nauvoo House, and managing land transactions as hundreds of immigrating converts to the church flowed into Nauvoo. Even ... Read more

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  • Latter-day Saint Art

    A Critical Reader

    The first expert critical treatment of Mormon visual art, featuring over 200 high-quality color illustrations Winner of the 2024 AML Award for Criticism Nearly every major religion has a significant artistic tradition, and religion's relationship with art--sometimes inspirational, sometimes antagonistic, often complex--has generated a substantial body of writing stretching back centuries. In its ... Read more

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  • Weimar Cinema, Embodiment, and Historicity

    Cultural Memory and the Historical Films of Ernst Lubitsch

    Series series Routledge Focus on Film Studies
    In its retrieval and (re)construction, the past has become interwoven with the images and structure of cinema. Not only have mass media—especially film and television—shaped the content of memories and histories, but they have also shaped their very form. Combining historicization with close readings of German director Ernst Lubitsch's historical films, this book focuses on an early turning point ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Seeing Things

    Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism

    In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning. Drawing on methods from cultural history, media studies, and religious studies, Allred focuses specifically on technologies of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents

    Volume 13: AugustDecember 1843

    Series Book 13 - The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents
    The thirteenth volume in the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers features ninety-eight Joseph Smith documents produced from August through December 1843 and includes letters, discourses, financial records, city ordinances, military orders, and a memorial to Congress. These documents provide insight into the growth and prosperity of Nauvoo. Illinois, the development of Latter-day Saint ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 8

    February-November 1841

    Series Book 8 - Joseph Smith Papers, Documents
    Nauvoo, Illinois, hummed with activity in early 1841 as Joseph Smith and the Latter-day Saints worked to develop the newly established city. They were busily engaged in building the civic infrastructure of their city, constructing the Nauvoo temple and a boardinghouse called the Nauvoo House, and managing land transactions as hundreds of immigrating converts to the church flowed into Nauvoo. Even ... Read more

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    Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a ... Read more

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  • American Crucifixion

    The Murder of Joseph Smith and the Fate of the Mormon Church

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    A gripping account of the mob killing of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism“American Crucifixion paints a brilliant picture of religious experimentation, public intolerance, and the making of a martyr.”—Chicago TribuneOn June 27, 1844, in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois, Joseph Smith and three of his associates waited anxiously in a jail cell. The dynamic founding prophet of ... Read more

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  • In Sacred Loneliness

    The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

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    Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by Joseph’s first wife, Emma, in a locked bedroom with the prophet. Emma remained a steadfast opponent of polygamy throughout her life.The majority of ... Read more

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  • A House Full of Females

    Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870

    From the author of A Midwife's Tale, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for History,and The Age of Homespun--a revelatory, nuanced, and deeply intimate look at the world of early Mormon women whose seemingly ordinary lives belied an astonishingly revolutionary spirit, drive, and determination.A stunning and sure-to-be controversial book that pieces together, through more than two ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Massacre at Mountain Meadows

    On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not ... Read more

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