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Title: MORMON EXPERIENCE by Leonard J. Arrington ISBN: 0-394-46566-0 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 March, 1979 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A superb book
Comment: Balanced, objective, fair, well-written, interesting, informed. What more could you want? This is something of a minor classic, in my opinion.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent introductory text to Mormon History
Comment: This book is not as deep or involved as B.H. Roberts seven volume history of the LDS church and its' people. It is a book that casts itself as an introductory one volume history of what is today called Mormon history. I am a Mormon. I have read histories of the LDS church that deal with the subject in a very negative and also positive ways. This book is well balanced and honest in its presentation of the subject. I read this book in order to better understand how all of the pieces of Mormon history fit together. I found what I was looking for. This book does not go into detail about the minutiae of Mormon history, nor does it make assumptions in order to drive a point home. The authors deal with historical research and nothing else.
This book is not a history of the Mormon faith, it is a history of the Mormon church and the Mormon people. It does not attempt to convert, but rather to explain. The book is not trying to define what Mormon's believe, but rather who they are, and what the have done.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fair and even handed summary of complex subject
Comment: Arrington and Bitton offer the reader a single volume history of the Mormon Church based on historical, rather than missionary principals. Both authors make no secret of their LDS affiliations; but for the uncommited reader this is an advantage, rather than a drawback, since their "bias" is stated and can thus be taken into account. As a non-mormon, I can confidently recommend this book as an excellent introduction to the subject, both to the general reader and the serious student of Religious Studies. In multi-faith Birmingham England I would have no compunction in recommending this book as the one for any of my students interested in the subject. Pity its not available in England.
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Title: Brigham Young: American Moses by Leonard J. Arrington ISBN: 0252012968 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1986 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard Lyman Bushman ISBN: 0252060121 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps ISBN: 0252014170 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past by D. Michael Quinn ISBN: 1560850116 Publisher: Signature Books Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn M. Brodie ISBN: 0679730540 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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