Samuel Morris Brown

In Heaven as It Is on Earth

Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A groundbreaking interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 169mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 724g
• ISBN-13: 9780199793570
• ISBN-10: 0199793573
• Artikelnr.: 34157556

Autorenporträt

Samuel Brown is Assistant Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Utah and the translator of Aleksandr Men's Son of Man.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Death, Dying, and the Dead
* Chapter 1. ''Melancholly Reflections'': Joseph Smith and Holy Dying
* Chapter 2. The Corpse and its Rest
* Chapter 3. Relics, Graves, and the Treasure Quest
* Chapter 4. Hallowed Ground: Tombs, Indians, and Eden
* Chapter 5. Seerhood, Pure Language, and the Silence of the Grave
* Part II: Everlasting Communities
* Chapter 6. The New and Everlasting Covenant
* Chapter 7. Negotiating Death and Afterlife in Nauvoo
* Chapter 8. The ''Lineage of my Preast Hood'' and the Chain of
Belonging
* Chapter 9. Divine Anthropology: Translating the Suprahuman Chain
* Chapter 10. ''Death Cannot Conquer the Hero Again'': The Death and
Afterlife of a Martyr