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| − | ==Index to claims made in ''Early Mormonism and the Magic World View''==
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| − | This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses within the FAIRwiki.
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| − | *Claims made in [[/Chapter 1|"Chapter 1: Early America's Heritage of Religion and Magic"]]
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| − | *Claims made in [[/Chapter 2|"Chapter 2: Divining Rods, Treasure-Digging, and Seer Stones"]]
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| − | *Claims made in [[/Chapter 3|"Chapter 3: Ritual Magic, Astrology, Amulets, and Talismans"]]
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| − | *Claims made in [[/Chapter 4|"Chapter 4: Magic Parchments and Occult Mentors"]]
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| − | *Claims made in [[/Chapter 5|"Chapter 5: Visions and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon"]]
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| − | *Claims made in [[/Chapter 6|"Chapter 6: Mormon Scriptures, the Magic World View, and Rural New York's Intellectual Life"]]
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| − | *Claims made in [[/Chapter 7|"Chapter 7: The Persistence and Decline of Magic After 1830"]]
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| − | ====180====
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| − | *{{AuthorQuote|The British Museum's library has never had a 3-to-1 ratio of books to London's population, yet that was the book-resident ratio of a bookstore in rural New York state in 1815.}}
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| − | *The author again exaggerates the availability of the occult books he insists—without evidence—were available to Joseph Smith in the early 1800s.
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| − | *"In 1976, when the population of London proper was 2,700,000, the British Museum Library contained approximately eight million volumes, with a ratio of 2.96-to-1. But, is Quinn seriously claiming that frontier New York had a greater book-to-person ratio than contemporary London? Or that education, book reading, and scholarship were higher in Palmyra than London? Can anyone take this assertion seriously?"
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| − | *The author claims that the cost of books described in the advertisements in upstate New York in the 1820s ranged from "44 cents to a dollar each."
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| − | *The author grossly underestimates the cost of books in Joseph Smith's world, especially the esoteric and occult books which he claims were an influence.
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| − | *[[../Use of sources/Cheap magic books|Availability of cheap magic books?]]
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| − | *The book further claims that "Antoine Faivre has also emphasized Barrett's book in the general European revival of magic during the first decades of the 1800s."
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| − | *The author distorts his source, and neglects to mention that the influence of ''The Magus'' would come well after Joseph Smith's early years in New England.
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| − | *"In reality, rather than emphasizing it, Faivre mentions Barrett's book in one sentence, in passing: 'a compilation destined to be a great success heralds the occult literature to come: ''The Magus'' (1801) by Francis Barrett.'"
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| − | *It is claimed that Joseph gave Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball divining rods as a symbol of gratitude for their loyalty.
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| − | *The claim was also used by the author of [[One Nation Under Gods|''One Nation Under Gods'']]. See: [[One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Divining rods to Kimball and Young]]
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| − | *The author claims that "Moshe Idel wrote that the Zohar 'is manifestly anthropomorphic'."
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| − | *The author claims that "Gershom Scholem wrote of the Cabala's 'almost provocatively conspicuous anthropomorphism'."
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| − | *The author wants to attribute Joseph's idea of God having a physical human form (anthropomorphism) to the Jewish mystics who practiced Kabbalah. But, the author twists and distorts his source, which clearly states that the anthropomorphism of God is only allegorical in Kabbalah.
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| − | *The author uses his sources to make it appear as if Kabbalah has a literal, rather than allegorical, conception of God in a human form.
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| − | *[[../Use of sources/Anthromorphism in Kabbalah|Anthromorphism in Kabbalah?]]
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| − | *Moshe Idel, ''Kabbalah: New Perspectives'' (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1988), 107.
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| − | *Gershom Scholem, ''Kabbalah'' (New York: Quadrangle, 1974), 141.
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| − | *Encyclopedia of Mormonism "was an official product of the LDS Church."
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| − | *The author wants to make the Encyclopedia of Mormonism an 'official' work, when the book, its editor, its authors, and publisher all assert that it is not.
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| − | *[[Official Church publications]]
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| − | *No source provided.
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| − | =Further reading=
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