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Early Mormonism and the magic world view

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In this articulate and insightful book, D. Michael Quinn, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, masterfully reconstructs the world view of an earlier age in America, finding ample evidence for treasure seeking and folk magic in Joseph Smith's formative years. Quinn discovers, for example, that Joseph's world was inhabited by supernatural creatures whose existence could be both symbolic and real. He explains that the involvement of the Joseph Smith family in folk magic was not unusual for the times and is important in attempting to understand how early Mormons may have interpreted developments in their history in ways that differ from modern, twentieth-century perceptions. Quinn's impressive research provides a much-needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism's founding prophet. -- from Book Jacket.

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Publisher
Signature Books
Language
English
Pages
313

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Cover of: Early Mormonism and the magic world view
Early Mormonism and the magic world view
1998, Signature Books
in English - [Rev. and enlarged ed.]
Cover of: Early Mormonism and the magic world view
Early Mormonism and the magic world view
1987, Signature Books
in English

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Published in

Salt Lake City, Utah

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [229]-296.
Includes index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
289.3
Library of Congress
BX8643.O25 Q55 1987, BX8643.O25Q55 1987

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 313 p., [44] p. of plates :
Number of pages
313

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2735480M
Internet Archive
earlymormonismma0000quin_y3v0
ISBN 10
094121446X
LCCN
86029864
OCLC/WorldCat
14931275
Library Thing
98462
Goodreads
3588753

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