A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870
10 best books like A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870 (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich): The Comanche Empire, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Letters to a Young Mormon, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt, One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly: The Art of Seeking God, Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings, Silent Souls Weeping: Depression—Sharing Stories, Finding Hope, The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church, The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846
| Author | Pekka Hämäläinen |
| ISBN | 0300126549 |
A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico....
| Author | Richard L. Bushman |
| ISBN | 1400077532 |
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...
Letters to a Young Mormon
| Author | Adam S. Miller |
| ISBN | 0842528563 |
"This book is composed as a series of letters. The letters are meant for a young Mormon who is familiar with Mormon life but green in their faith....Here, my work is personal. I mean only to address the real beauty and real costs of trying to live a Mormon life. And I hope only to Show something of what it means...
| Author | John G. Turner |
| ISBN | 0674049675 |
Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a...
| Author | Patrick Q. Mason |
| ISBN | 1629721816 |
For all its beneficial advances, our secular age has also weakened some people s ties to religious belief and affiliation. Latter-day Saints have not been immune to this trend. In recent years, many faithful Church members have encountered challenging aspects of Church history, belief, or practice....
| Author | Ashley Mae Hoiland |
| ISBN | 0842529926 |
One Hundred Birds Taught Me to Fly is for restless souls who desire to know God more deeply. Ashley Mae Hoiland bids us follow her down “the hallowed and well-trodden path between the heart and mind,” where glimpses of godliness are discovered in rainstorms, bus rides, temples, and mountains. As...
| Author | Joanna Brooks |
| ISBN | 0190248033 |
This groundbreaking collection gathers together for the first time the essential writings of the contemporary Mormon feminist movement--from its historic beginnings in the 1970s to its vibrant present, offering the best Mormon feminist thought and writing.
No issue in Mormonism has...
Silent Souls Weeping: Depression—Sharing Stories, Finding Hope
| Author | Jane Clayson Johnson |
In a culture that strives for happiness and perfection, depression and mental illness are often surrounded by stigma, misunderstanding, and endless questions. In Silent Souls Weeping, bestselling author and nationally-recognized journalist Jane Clayson Johnson hopes to change the LDS dialogue...
The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
| Author | Jana Riess |
| ISBN | 0190885203 |
American Millennials--the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s--have been leaving organized religion in unprecedented numbers. For a long time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was an exception: nearly three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon stayed that way into adulthood....
The Standard of Truth: 1815–1846
| Author | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
In 1820, a young farm boy in search of truth has a vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ. Three years later, an angel guides him to an ancient record buried in a hill near his home. With God’s help, he translates the record and organizes the Savior’s church in the latter days. Soon others join him,...
