Nauvoo Temple
Author : Don F. Colvin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Nauvoo (Ill.)
ISBN : 9781591560142
The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846
Author : Devery S. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
"Prior to their departure in early 1846, over 5,000 men and women received their endowments between the temple's preliminary opening on December 10, 1845, and its closing two months later on February 8, 1846"--Page xviii-xix.
Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings
Author :
Publisher : Smith Research Associates
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Mormons
ISBN : 9781560851981
Book Description
Less than four years before his death, Joseph Smith began introducing LDS members to new, ritualized forms of worship. Several of these rites linked individuals not only to God but also to their immediate families and even ancestors. The rituals, practiced by both men and women, served to introduce initiates to new theological developments. On a more practical level, they established layers of social contacts around which the LDS community revolved, bonded, and interacted. Lisle G. Brown makes his comprehensive data base available to researchers 160 years after the fact, identifying the men and women who were initiated into the nexus of temple ritual and priesthood ordinances during the early to mid-1840s. He includes dates for endowments, marriages, proxy marriages, sealings to parents, adoptions of living adults to married couples, and second anointings.
Excavating Nauvoo
Author : Benjamin C. Pykles
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080322835X
Book Description
This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, reveals the roots of historical archaeology. In the late 1960s, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sponsored an archaeology program to authentically restore the city of Nauvoo, which was founded along the Mississippi River in the 1840s by the Mormons as they moved west. Non-Mormon scholars were also interested in Nauvoo because it was representative of several western frontier towns in this era. As the archaeology and restoration of Nauvoo progressed, however, conflicts arose, particularly regarding control of the site and its interpretation for the public. The field of historical archaeology was just coming into its own during this period, with myriad perspectives and doctrines being developed and tested. The Nauvoo site was one of the places where the discipline was forged. This well-researched account weaves together multiple viewpoints in examining the many contentious issues surrounding the archaeology and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, providing an illuminating picture of the early days of professional historical archaeology.
Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Author : Benjamin E. Park
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1631494872
Book Description
Best Book Award • Mormon History Association A brilliant young historian excavates the brief life of a lost Mormon city, uncovering a “grand, underappreciated saga in American history” (Wall Street Journal). In Kingdom of Nauvoo, Benjamin E. Park draws on newly available sources to re-create the founding and destruction of the Mormon city of Nauvoo. On the banks of the Mississippi in Illinois, the early Mormons built a religious utopia, establishing their own army and writing their own constitution. For those offenses and others—including the introduction of polygamy, which was bitterly opposed by Emma Smith, the iron-willed first wife of Joseph Smith—the surrounding population violently ejected the Mormons, sending them on their flight to Utah. Throughout his absorbing chronicle, Park shows how the Mormons of Nauvoo were representative of their era, and in doing so elevates Mormon history into the American mainstream.
Return to the City of Joseph
Author : Scott C. Esplin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,59 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0252050851
Book Description
In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844. The quiet farm town became a major Mormon heritage site visited annually by tens of thousands of people. Yet Nauvoo's dramatic restoration proved fraught with conflicts. Scott C. Esplin's social history looks at how Nauvoo's different groups have sparred over heritage and historical memory. The Latter-day Saint project brought it into conflict with the Community of Christ, the Midwestern branch of Mormonism that had kept a foothold in the town and a claim on its Smith-related sites. Non-Mormon locals, meanwhile, sought to maintain the historic place of ancestors who had settled in Nauvoo after the Latter-day Saints' departure. Examining the recent and present-day struggles to define the town, Esplin probes the values of the local groups while placing Nauvoo at the center of Mormonism's attempt to carve a role for itself within the greater narrative of American history.
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Author : Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release :
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN :
Book Description
Nauvoo
Author : Robert Bruce Flanders
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252005619
Book Description
A history of what became a romantic legend about a martyred prophet, a lost city, and religious persecution, this volume tells the story of Nauvoo, the early Mormon Church, and the temporal life of Joseph Smith. Nauvoo (1839-46) was a critical period in Mormon history. The climax of Smith's career and the start of Brigham Young's, it was here that Utah really had it's beginnings and that the pattern of Mormon society in the West was laid. "...the quality and quantity of research is commendable... an excellent contribution to American mid-western history and to Mormoniana in general." -- Journal of American History
Window Maker
Author : Charles W. Allen
Publisher : Allyn House Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Glaziers
ISBN : 9780971913219
Book Description
This book was written by Nauvoo Temple window and door maker, Charles W. Allen. It quotes directly from his personal journal that he kept daily during the project. It describes overwhelming responsibilities associated with the invitation to build the temple windows and front doors. It shares a few personal experiences that the author had over his lifetime to be ready to accept the challenge. It relates how others were prepared and available to do the work with him.
The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000
Author : Devery S. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781560852117
Book Description
An edited collection of documents on the the history and doctrines surrounding Mormon temples. Includes excerpts from leaders' diaries, minutes of Quorum of the Twelve meetings, pastoral letters, sermons, and official publications.
