Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith

6 best books like Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith (Linda King Newell): Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins, The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

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...

Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet

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...

In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith

Author

Todd M. Compton

Beginning in the 1830s, at least thirty-three women married Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. These were passionate relationships which also had some longevity, except in cases such as that of two young sisters, one of whom was discovered by Joseph’s first wife, Emma, in a locked bedroom with...

The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith

Author	Terryl L. Givens
ISBN	1609079426

Faith is the first principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ. So what happens when a person has doubts? Questioning is not the problem, according to authors Terryl and Fiona Givens. After all, they write, the Restoration unfolded because a young man asked questions. The difficulty arises when questions...

An Insider's View of Mormon Origins

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...

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....