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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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| − | *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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| − | {{FAIRAnalysisWiki}}
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