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In heaven as it is on earth : Joseph Smith and the early Mormon conquest of death / Samuel Morris Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Samuel Morris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844.
- Smith, Joseph.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Doctrines.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Death--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (402 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title provides an interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.
- Contents:
- "Melancholly reflections" : Joseph Smith and holy dying
- The corpse and its rest
- Relics, graves, and the treasure quest
- Hallowed ground : tombs, Indians, and Eden
- Seerhood, pure language, and the silence of the grave
- The new and everlasting covenant
- Negotiating death and afterlife in Nauvoo
- The "lineage of my preast hood" and the chain of belonging
- Divine anthropology : translating the suprahuman chain
- "Death cannot conquer the hero again" : the death and afterlife of a martyr.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-991292-0
- 1-283-42312-X
- 0-19-979368-9
- 9786613423122
- OCLC:
- 772593014
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