The Refiner's Fire The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644 - 1844

Brooke, John L.

ISBN 10: 0521345456 / ISBN 13: 9780521345453

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, New York, 1994

Beschreibung

8vo. 421pp. from half title page: "Mormon religious belief has long been a mystery to outsiders, either dismissed as anomalous to the American religious tradition or extolled as the most genuine creation of the American religious imagination. This study presents the first extended analysis of Mormon theology to have been written against the backdrop of religion and popular culture in the early modern North Atlantic world, a context that permit the most coherent analysis of Mormon origins." #04475. Book VG: touch of shelf wear, touch of foxing to endpapers and outer edge text block. Text clean, binding tight.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4393

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Refiner's Fire The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644 - 1844
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521345456
• ISBN-13: 9780521345453
• Einband: hardcover
• Auflage: first edition.
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • religion

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Inhaltsangabe

This 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion, which proposes that the faithful will become gods. The book's central thesis is that the origins of Mormonism lie in the fusion of radical religion with magical ideas about recovering the divine powers of Adam lost in the fall from Paradise (ideas known as the hermetic philosophy) that occurred during the Reformation and the English Revolution. The book is organised around the two problems of demonstrating the survival of these ideas into the nineteenth century and of how they were manifested in Mormon doctrine. A final chapter outlines how Mormonism gradually has moved toward traditional Protestant Christianity since the 1850s. Besides religion, this book deals with magic, witchcraft, alchemy, Freemasonry, counterfeiting, and state-formation.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.