In Heaven as It Is on Earth
Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 January 2012
- ISBN 9780199793570
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 240x165x32 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A groundbreaking interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.
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A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Brown's In Heaven as It Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of founder Joseph Smith's profound preoccupation with the specter of death.
Revisiting historical documents and scripture from this novel perspective, Brown offers new insight into the origin and meaning of some of Mormonism's earliest beliefs and practices. The world of early Mormonism was besieged by death--infant mortality, violence, and disease were rampant. A prolonged battle with typhoid fever, punctuated by painful surgeries including a threatened leg amputation, and the sudden loss of his beloved brother Alvin cast a long shadow over Smith's own life. Smith embraced and was deeply influenced by the culture of "holy dying"--with its emphasis on deathbed salvation, melodramatic bereavement, and belief in the Providential nature of untimely death--that sought to cope with the widespread mortality of the period. Seen in this light, Smith's treasure quest, search for Native origins, distinctive approach to scripture, and belief in a post-mortal community all acquire new meaning, as do early Mormonism's Masonic-sounding temple rites and novel family system. Taken together, the varied themes of early Mormonism can be interpreted as a campaign to extinguish death forever. By focusing on Mormon conceptions of death, Brown recasts the story of first-generation Mormonism, showing a religious movement and its founder at once vibrant and fragile, intrepid and unsettled, human and otherworldly.
A lively narrative history, In Heaven As It Is on Earth illuminates not only the foundational beliefs of early Mormonism but also the larger issues of family and death in American religious history.
One of this work's many virtues is that it provides the best explanation of Mormon temple worship ever published. Moreover, as Brown makes his case that this religion's 'end goal is the conquest of death,' he clarifies much about Mormon belief that is mysterious to outsiders (p. 170).
Table of Contents:
Part I: Death, Dying, and the Dead
Chapter 1. ''Melancholly Reflections'': Joseph Smith and Holy Dying
Chapter 2. The Corpse and its Rest
Chapter 3. Relics, Graves, and the Treasure Quest
Chapter 4. Hallowed Ground: Tombs, Indians, and Eden
Chapter 5. Seerhood, Pure Language, and the Silence of the Grave
Part II: Everlasting Communities
Chapter 6. The New and Everlasting Covenant
Chapter 7. Negotiating Death and Afterlife in Nauvoo
Chapter 8. The ''Lineage of my Preast Hood'' and the Chain of Belonging
Chapter 9. Divine Anthropology: Translating the Suprahuman Chain
Chapter 10. ''Death Cannot Conquer the Hero Again'': The Death and Afterlife of a Martyr
