In God's Image and Likeness
Author: Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Publisher:
Published: 2010-06-18
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780982808221
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Daughters in My Kingdom
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Publisher: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1465106162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first meeting of the Relief Society, Sister Emma Smith said, “We are going to do something extraordinary.” She was right. The history of Relief Society is filled with examples of ordinary women who have accomplished extraordinary things as they have exercised faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Relief Society was established to help prepare daughters of God for the blessings of eternal life. The purposes of Relief Society are to increase faith and personal righteousness, strengthen families and homes, and provide relief by seeking out and helping those in need. Women fulfill these purposes as they seek, receive, and act on personal revelation in their callings and in their personal lives. This book is not a chronological history, nor is it an attempt to provide a comprehensive view of all that the Relief Society has accomplished. Instead, it provides a historical view of the grand scope of the work of the Relief Society. Through historical accounts, personal experiences, scriptures, and words of latter-day prophets and Relief Society leaders, this book teaches about the responsibilities and opportunities Latter-day Saint women are given in Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness.
The Martin Harris Story
Author: Madge Harris Tuckett
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9781566845977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily history and biographies of Martin Harris, Sr. (1783-1875); his older brother, Emer Harris (1781-1869); and Emer's son, Dennison Lott Harris (1825-1885). Martin Harris, Sr. had significant influence on the early development of the LDS or Mormon Church, and earlier had served in the U.S. army during the War of 1812. All are descendants of Thomas Harris, who married Elizabeth Leatherland and immigrated in 1630 from England to Massachusetts, later moving to Rhode Island. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and elsewhere. Mormon descendants moved to Utah and elsewhere.
Tabernacles of Clay
Author: Taylor G. Petrey
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2020-04-17
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 146965623X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaylor G. Petrey's trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender, sexual difference, and marriage. Drawing on deep archival research, Petrey situates LDS doctrines in gender theory and American religious history since World War II. His challenging conclusion is that Mormonism is conflicted between ontologies of gender essentialism and gender fluidity, illustrating a broader tension in the history of sexuality in modernity itself. As Petrey details, LDS leaders have embraced the idea of fixed identities representing a natural and divine order, but their teachings also acknowledge that sexual difference is persistently contingent and unstable. While queer theorists have built an ethics and politics based on celebrating such sexual fluidity, LDS leaders view it as a source of anxiety and a tool for the shaping of a heterosexual social order. Through public preaching and teaching, the deployment of psychological approaches to "cure" homosexuality, and political activism against equal rights for women and same-sex marriage, Mormon leaders hoped to manage sexuality and faith for those who have strayed from heteronormativity.
The Rise of Mormonism
Author: Rodney Stark
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 023113634X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This new work, the first to collect Rodney Stark's influential writings on the Mormon church, includes previously published essays, revised and rewritten for this volume. His work sheds light on both the growth of Mormonism and on how and why certain religions continue to grow while others fade away."--Jacket.
The Finished Mystery
Author: Charles Taze Russell
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTullidge's Histories
Author: E.W. Tullidge
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published:
Total Pages: 963
ISBN-13: 5878341824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining the History of All the Northern, Eastern and Western Counties of Utah: Also the Counties of Southern Idaho. With a biographical appendix of representative men and founders of the Cities and Counties; Also a Commercial supplement, historical.
Diary of Frederick William Hurst
Author: Frederick William Hurst
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-02-26
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781495923326
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiary of Frederick William Hurst (b.1833), a Mormon and the son of William Hurst and Mary Ann Green. He immigrated, with his parents, from the Isle of Jersey near England to Wellington, New Zealand in 1839/1840, and in 1853 immigrated to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, where he became a Mormon convert, and immigrated to Hawaii in 1855. He served a mission in the Sandwich Islands, moved to Beaver, Utah in 1847, married Aurelia Hawkins in 1858, and moved to Salt Lake City. He served a mission to New Zealand in 1875/1877, and returned to live in Salt Lake City. Died in Logan, Utah.
The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
Author: Andrew Tobolowsky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-03-17
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1009089137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the first study to treat the history of claims to an Israelite identity as an ongoing historical phenomenon from biblical times to the present. By treating the Hebrew Bible's accounts of Israel as one of many efforts to construct an Israelite history, rather than source material for later legends, Andrew Tobolowsky brings a long-term comparative approach to biblical and nonbiblical “Israelite” histories. In the process, he sheds new light on how the structure of the twelve tribes tradition enables the creation of so many different visions of Israel, and generates new questions: How can we explain the enduring power of the myth of the twelve tribes of Israel? How does “becoming Israel” work, why has it proven so popular, and how did it change over time? Finally, what can the changing shape of Israel itself reveal about those who claimed it?
The Books of Nature and Scripture
Author: J.E. Force
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9401732493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDick Popkin and James Force have attended a number of recent conferences where it was apparent that much new and important research was being done in the fields of interpreting Newton's and Spinoza's contributions as biblical scholars and of the relationship between their biblical scholarship and other aspects of their particular philosophies. This collection represents the best current research in this area. It stands alone as the only work to bring together the best current work on these topics. Its primary audience is specialised scholars of the thought of Newton and Spinoza as well as historians of the philosophical ideas of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
