Salvation and solvency : the socio-economic policies of early Mormonism / Robert Christian Kahlert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahlert, Robert Christian, 1969- author.

Series:

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; Band 133.

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte, ISSN 1861-5996 ; Band 133

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint churches--Sociological aspects--History--19th century.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Latter Day Saint churches--Economic aspects--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph tracks the development of the socio-economic stance of early Mormonism, an American Millenarian Restorationist movement, through the first fourteen years of the church’s existence, from its incorporation in the spring of 1830 in New York, through Ohio and Missouri and Illinois, up to the lynching of its prophet Joseph Smith Jr in the summer of 1844. Mormonism used a new revelation, the Book of Mormon, and a new apostolically inspired church organization to connect American antiquities to covenant-theological salvation history. The innovative religious strategy was coupled with a conservative socio-economic stance that was supportive of technological innovation.This analysis of the early Mormon church uses case studies focused on socio-economic problems, such as wealth distribution, the financing of publication projects, land trade and banking, and caring for the poor. In order to correct for the agentive overtones of standard Mormon historiography, both in its supportive and in its detractive stance, the explanatory models of social time from Fernand Braudel’s classic work on the Mediterranean are transferred to and applied in the nineteenth-century American context.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Methodology

3. Nineteenth-Century Economic Life

4. Joseph Smith Jr’s Socio-Economic Baseline

5. A New Scripture

6. Funding the Book of Mormon

7. Raiding the Campbellites

8. Consecration and Stewardship

9. The United Firm

10. The Kirtland Safety Society

11. Settling Nauvoo

12. Ruling Nauvoo

13. Nauvoo Loose Ends

14. The Evolution of Socio-Economic Policy

15. Braudel’s Mediterranean Models

16. Evaluating Mediterranean Models

17. Epilogue: Whence Salvation History

18. Appendix

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110473476

311047347X

9783110472677

3110472678

OCLC:

951854237