Unter Zions Panier : Mormonism and its interaction with Germany and its people 1840-1990 / Kurt Widmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Widmer, Kurt, author.

Series:

Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv ; Band 21.

Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv ; Band 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latter Day Saint churches--Germany--History.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013.

Summary:

One of the earliest critiques of Mormonism was written in German. German Reformed Pastor Diedrich Willers who had lost several of his congregants to the infant Mormon church advised his superiors of the threat posed by the early Morons. German speaking immigrants to North America converted, and played a significant role in the early development and growth of Mormonism in North America. As a result, founding Prophet Joseph Smith saw the German states as an area with a tremendous potential for new converts. In the nineteenth century the German states became the Mormons' first foreign language

Contents:

PREFACE; CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; I. M ORMONS, MORMONISM, AND LATTER DAY SAINTS; A. DEFINING MORMONISM; B. MORMONISM IN THE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICAN RELIGION; C. IS MORMONISM THE FASTEST GROWING RELIGION?; D. ATTITUDES TOWARD THE MORMONS; II. ESTABLISHING THE KINGDOM; A. HISTORY AS THEOLOGY; B. LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD; C. THE KINGDOM MOVES WEST; III. EARLY MORMONISM AND THE GERMAN IMMIGRANTS; A. THE GERMAN SECTS SEEK RELIGIOUS REFUGE; B. THE GERMAN SECTS IN NORTH AMERICA; C. THE HARMONY SOCIETY AND THE MORMONS; D. THE GERMAN'S ROLE IN EARLY MORMONISM

IV. THE FIRST MORMONS IN GERMANYA. ORSON HYDE AND THE FIRST GERMAN MISSION; B. JOHN TAYLOR AND THE EXPANSION OF THE MORMONS INTO GERMANY; C. THE MISSIONARY WORK IN HAMBURG; D. THE KINGDOM HAS COME; E. THE FIRST GERMAN EMIGRATION; V. THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE; A. THE EUROPEAN MISSION; B. MISSIONARY ACTIVITY; C. PROSELYTIZING; D. THE MISSIONARY'S METHODS; E. MORMON MISSIONARY LITERATURE; F. THE KINGDOM OF GOD, GATHERING, AND PLURAL MARRIAGE; G. THE MISSIONARY EFFORT IN GERMANY; V I. THE SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE GERMAN CONVERT S; A. THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF GREAT BRITAIN; B. PROTESTANT GERMANY

C. EDUCATION AND LITERACY IN GERMANYD. THE GERMAN CONVERTS; VII. SOCIETAL RESPONSES TO THE MORMONS; A. RELIGIOUS POLEMICS: CATHOLICS, MORMONS, AND BAPTISTS; B. SECTARIANISM IN THE GERMAN CHURCHES; C. MORMONISM IN EUROPE; D. THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE MORMONS; VIII. THE STATE TAKES ACTION 1853-1990; A. THE PRUSSIAN DECREE OF 1853; B. THE GERMAN STATES AND THE MORMONS; C. THE MORMONS IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY; D. SUPPORTING THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST REGIME; E. THE MORMONS AFTER THE WAR 1945-1990; F. THE MORMONS IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC; G. MORMONS IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

IX. WHAT DOES HISTORY TELL US?A. AN ASSESMENT; X. BIBLIOGRAPHY; A. ARCHIVAL MATERIAL; B. MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS; C. NEWSPAPERS AND POPULAR JOURNALS; D. ELECTRONIC SOURCES; E. BOOKS; F. JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS; G. UNPUBLISHED SOURCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 8, 2014).

ISBN:

3-515-10465-8