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Overview

Eminent historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents an engaging history of the Mormon religion that is full of intricate subplots and peculiar twists. He discusses the Book of Mormon's ambivalence toward republican government and its fascination with records, translation, and history, explores the culture of the Lamanites (the enemies of the favored people), and recasts Joseph Smith as an original thinker who offered the possibility of belief in a time of growing skepticism. Believing History is also a rare and honest confession in which Bushman reflects on his faith and ponders how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally invested. In this book, believers gain a whole new perspective on their religion, nonbelievers learn that Mormonism cannot be summed up with a simple label, and all are treated to a provocative and open look at a believing historian studying his own faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231075923
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	05/26/1994
Series:	Critical Moments in Paleobiology and Earth History Series
Pages:	259
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University.

Reid L. Neilson is assistant professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University.

Jed Woodworth is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction Faithful History My Belief Learning to Believe The Social Dimensions of Rationality The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution The Book of Mormon in Early Mormon History The Lamanite View of Book of Mormon History The Recovery of the Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon and Its Critics Joseph Smith and Skepticism Joseph Smith in the Current Age Making Space for the Mormons The Visionary World of Joseph Smith Was Joseph Smith a Gentleman?
Joseph Smith as Translator
"The Little, Narrow Prison" of Language A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-first Century Afterword