a cultural history of the book of mormon: volume 3: the cycles of deep sleep: beta waves

The first part of Volume 3: In Beta Waves the author reconstructs how the modern institutional church arose from the Sunday Schools and YMMIA organizations, and how the Book of Mormon was reshaped as curriculum taught by generic instructors to imagined pupils. Central to this reshaping was the creation of an imagined Book of Mormon World, a work of writers like George Reynolds, Moses Thatcher, James Talmage, and B.H. Roberts. Their metatextual labor integrated the imagined World of the Book of Mormon with the rising administrative structure to give us a very different way of reading that book.