Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
6 best books like Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (Richard L. Bushman): Motherless Brooklyn, The Lost Book of Mormon: A Journey Through the Mythic Lands of Nephi, Zarahemla, and Kansas City, Missouri, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0375724834 |
Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn’s very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impulses drive him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in the most startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, he works for small-time mobster...
| Author | Avi Steinberg |
| ISBN | 0385535694 |
A witty and probing travelogue through the landscapes associated with the Book of Mormon, one the most enduring and influential works of American literature.
Is the Book of Mormon the Great American Novel? Decades before Ishmael’s ship embarked on its search for Moby Dick, before Huck...
| Author | D. Michael Quinn |
| ISBN | 1560850892 |
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...
| Author | Joe Mozingo |
| ISBN | 1451627483 |
A prize-winning journalist’s quest to uncover the hidden history of his remarkable American family, part black and part white—all descended from an African slave who won his freedom in the Jamestown court in 1672, one of the country’s first free black men.
“My dad’s family was...
| Author | W. Paul Reeve |
| ISBN | 0199754071 |
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...
| Author | Grant H. Palmer |
| ISBN | 1560851570 |
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...
