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The life and times of John Steele : Mormon kingdom-builder / Kerry William Bate.
Van Pelt Library BX8695.S776 B38 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bate, Kerry William, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steele, John, 1821-1903.
- Steele, John.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Biography.
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Latter Day Saints--Biography.
- Latter Day Saints.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 365 pages : illustrations, maps 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Radicalized by the starving poverty of industrial Glasgow during the "Hungry Forties," Irish-born John Steele embraced a teetotaler brotherhood, radical political reform and listened sympathetically to Utopians on Glasgow Green. This was the background for his 1843 conversion to Mormonism, driven by paradisal fervor to build an egalitarian Kingdom where Christ would rule in the last days. A study of his life tells an unparalleled story of one of the United States' most successful Utopian experiments and a wondrous array of half-forgotten mystical, magical and folk customs, while also uniquely illuminating the construction of the Mormon Kingdom"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781647692186
- 1647692180
- 9781647692193
- 1647692199
- OCLC:
- 1472585157
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