The Cultural History of the Book of Mormon: Volume 2: Voicing the Ism / Daymon Mickel Smith

THE BOOK OF MORMON BECAME THE MORMONITES' SECOND scripture alongside the Bible, whose most mysterious and obscure passages were said to prophesy of its coming forth. We ride along in Volume Two with preachers as they re-arrange the Book of Mormon into thematic sequences better suited to proselytizing Christians, and see how their Mormonism of the 1840s and 1850s was the creation of Parley Pratt and his pamphlets spread by elders across and beyond the British empire. In Nauvoo, however, most of what Joseph Smith seemed to have hoped for, with respect to Saints on the Mississippi, came to an end with his death. The Saints did as they always do, picked up the pieces and carried on. Once in Utah, or Deseret as they insisted it be named, Mormons realized they were out of the lands Joseph Smith called Zion; living beyond the End they once thought would come in 1845. In Utah, as we see here, Mormons fell outside their myth: beyond the geography of Joseph's American Eden, while the Lord's Coming seemed long overdue. They looked for plume and pillar of fire over Sinai, for seraphim to place coals upon their lips, for the City of God to descend, its people to kiss their poverty from dry cheeks. That was all in the future, when Joseph Smith voiced the Lord in January 1841, and warned of them working cursings by their own hands. In this "unified" second volume (comprised of Book A: Voicing Being Power, and Book B: Follies Epic and Novel), we witness the creation of Mormonism, and the examine implications of the Mormons' move from Nauvoo to Utah; from Joseph to Brigham; from Restorationism to Zionism. It shows what happens to Saints when they leave their map-the Book of Mormon-far behind, having long misread it. Like what it says about kings, for example . . .
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