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Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
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- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 1: Palmyra, 1823"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 2: Kirtland/Far West, 1831"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 3: Nauvoo, 1840"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter Four: Winter Quarters—Council Bluffs, 1846"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 5: Salt Lake City, August 24, 1849"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 6: Sevier River, October 26, 1853"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 7: Harrison, March 29, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 8: Deseret, August 3, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 9"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 10: Mountain Meadows, September 7-11, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 11: Deseret, September 12, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 12: Camp Scott, November 16, 1857"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 13: Cedar City, April 7, 1859"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 14: Mountain Meadows, May 25, 1861"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 15: Mountain Meadows, March 23, 1877"
- Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, "Chapter 16: Mountain Meadows Aftermath"
Summary: In Insider's View of Mormon Origins was developed during a period of time that its author worked as a teacher in the Church Educational System (CES), and was published after the author's retirement from Church employment. The book attempts to explain many otherwise clearly described events of the restoration by reinterpreting them as spiritual rather than physical events.
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- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 1: Early America's Heritage of Religion and Magic"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 2: Divining Rods, Treasure-Digging, and Seer Stones"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 3: Ritual Magic, Astrology, Amulets, and Talismans"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 4: Magic Parchments and Occult Mentors"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 5: Visions and the Coming Forth of the Book of Mormon"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 6: Mormon Scriptures, the Magic World View, and Rural New York's Intellectual Life"
- Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, "Chapter 7: The Persistence and Decline of Magic After 1830"
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Summary: Louis Midgley: "Though Fawn McKay Brodie forged a reputation as a controversial psychohistorian, it is her 1945 biography of Joseph Smith for which she has always been known among Latter-day Saints. She thought of herself, and has been portrayed by cultural Mormons, as an "objective" historian who had taken the measure of "the Mormon prophet." Her death on 10 January 1981 was followed by tributes in which she was depicted as a heroic figure who had courageously liberated herself from bondage to the mind-numbing religious orthodoxy of her parochial childhood and who had thereby set in place among Latter-day Saints what one of her admirers called "a new climate of liberation." Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer's Life—the latest and most comprehensive of these tributes to Brodie—constitutes a substantial addition to the tiny academic specialty that might be called 'Brodie studies'."[1]
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- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 2: Treasure in the Earth"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 3: Red Sons of Israel"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 4: A Marvelous Work and a Wonder"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 5: Witnesses for God"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 6: The Prophet of Palmyra"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 7: The Perfect Society and the Promised Land"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 8: Temple Builder"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 9: Expulsion from Eden"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 10: The Army of the Lord"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 11: Patronage and Punishment"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 12: Master of Languages"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 13: My Kingdom is of this World"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 14: Disaster in Kirtland"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 15: The Valley of God"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 16: The Alcoran or the Sword"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 17: Ordeal in Liberty Jail"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 18: Nauvoo"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 19: Mysteries of the Kingdom"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 20: In the Quiver of the Almighty"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 21: If a Man Entice a Maid"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 22: The Bennett Explosion"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 23: Into Hiding"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 24: The Wives of the Prophet"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 25: Candidate for President"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 26: Prelude to Destruction"
- Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History, "Chapter 27: Carthage"
- Hugh W. Nibley, "No, Ma'am, That's Not History"
- Louis Midgley, "F. M. Brodie--"The Fasting Hermit and Very Saint of Ignorance": A Biographer and Her Legend"
- Louis Midgley, "Comments on Critical Exchanges"
- Gary F. Novak, ""The Most Convenient Form of Error": Dale Morgan on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon"
- BYU Studies, "Exploding the Myth About Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet"
- BYU Studies, "The Brodie Connection: Thomas Jefferson and Joseph Smith"
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Summary: In early 2002 a new book entitled One Nation under Gods (ONUG) appeared on bookshelves, promising to tell the "real" history of the Mormon Church. The author attempts to pull disparate sources together to paint a picture that, when compared to objective reality, more closely resembles a Picasso than a Rembrandt—skewed and distorted—obscuring and maligning the actual doctrines and beliefs as understood and practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 150 years. FairMormon's original review of One Nation Under Gods was of the original 2002 hardback edition. The author has responded that there were editorial problems with this edition. We acknowledge that corrections were made in the paperback edition released in 2003 in response to some of the original reviews. Consequently, all previous FairMormon reviews have been edited for accuracy and tone, and the paperback edition of this work has been evaluated on its own merits. (It should be noted that the corrected paperback edition bears no markings indicating that it is a second edition or an updated edition; it simply appears as a paperback edition of the original.) This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible. In the subarticles linked below the hardback edition is represented by "HB" and the paperback edition by "PB."
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- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Introduction: A Thread of Prophecy"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 1: Vagabond Visionaries"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 2: Moroni, Magic, and Masonry"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 3: From Profit to Prophet"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 4: Smith's Golden Book"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 5: People of Zion"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 6: No Rest for the Righteous"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 7: Woe In Ohio"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 8: Big Trouble In Little Missouri"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 9: March to Martyrdom"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 10: A New Beginning"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 11: Bloody Brigham"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 12: Wars and Rumors of Wars"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 13: Unholy Matrimony"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 14: The Politics of Compromise"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 15: Making the Transition"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 16: Mormon Racism: Black Is Not Beautiful"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 17: Is Mormonism Christian"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Chapter 18: Cover-Ups, Conspiracies, and Controversies"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Postscript" (paperback only)
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Appendix A: Abraham's Book?"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Appendix B: Failed Joseph Smith Prophecies"
- Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods, "Appendix C: Recommended Resources"
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Summary: Responses to a "study" which claims to illuminate the reasons for Mormon disaffection.
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Summary: This book attempted to revive the moribund Spalding manuscript theory for the Book of Mormon. Cowdery et al. claimed to have discovered Spalding's handwriting in the Book of Mormon original manuscript. In addition to the insurmountable historical problems with the Spalding theory, the supposed "Spalding" handwriting has likewise been found in documents produced in June 1831--fifteen years after Spalding's death.
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- ↑ Louis Midgley, "The Legend and Legacy of Fawn Brodie," FARMS Review of Books 13:1 (2001).