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In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

10 best books like In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Todd M. Compton): Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, Massacre at Mountain Meadows, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
AuthorRichard L. Bushman
ISBN1400077532
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...
David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism
AuthorGregory A. Prince
ISBN0874808227
Ordained as an apostle in 1906, David O. McKay served as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1951 until his death in 1970. Under his leadership, the church experienced unparalleled growth—nearly tripling in total membership—and becoming a significant presence...
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
AuthorRichard L. Bushman
ISBN0252060121
‎دوستانِ گرانقدر، مذهبِ <مورمون> یکی از شاخه ها و مذاهبِ دینِ مسیحیت است که تقریباً از سالِ 1830 میلادی، در غربِ نیویورک و به وسیلهٔ کشیشِ فریبکار و زن باره...
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
AuthorJohn G. Turner
ISBN0674049675
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...
Massacre at Mountain Meadows
AuthorRonald W. Walker
ISBN0195160347
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...
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
AuthorD. Michael Quinn
ISBN1560850892
In this ground-breaking book, D. Michael Quinn masterfully reconstructs an earlier age, finding ample evidence for folk magic in nineteenth-century New England, as he does in Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s upbringing. Quinn discovers that Smith’s world was inhabited by supernatural creatures...
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
AuthorW. Paul Reeve
ISBN0199754071
The Protestant white majority in the nineteenth century was convinced that Mormonism represented a racial-not merely religious-departure from the mainstream and they spent considerable effort attempting to deny Mormon whiteness. Being white equalled access to political, social, and economic...
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
AuthorLinda King Newell
ISBN0252062914
Mormonism has had a bit of a schizophrenic relationship with Emma Smith. Over 150 years, she's been seen as everything from a "devil" to the epitome of the stereotypical selfless at all times, saintly, angelically feminine Mormon woman (the apparent most-favored status of Mormonism today given some...
An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
AuthorGrant H. Palmer
ISBN1560851570
Over the past thirty years, an enormous amount of research has been conducted into Mormon origins—Joseph Smith’s early life, the Book of Mormon, the prophet’s visions, and the restoration of priesthood authority. Longtime LDS educator Grant H. Palmer suggests that most Latter-day Saints...
The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN1508238332
From the New York Times bestselling authority on early Christianity, the story of how Christianity grew from a religion of twenty or so peasants in rural Galilee to the dominant religion in the West in less than four hundred years.

Christianity didn’t have to become the dominant religion...
The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church
AuthorJana Riess
ISBN0190885203
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
AuthorThe 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,...
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