Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Sarah Barringer Gordon has written a balanced and readable history.There are, as expected, descriptions of key events in the development of the Mormon church.We are reminded of the founding of the church by Joseph Smith in 1830.1 There is a brief recounting of the tensions that arose between the early Mormons and their neighbors in certain Midwestern states, culminating in Smith's murder by an angry mob in 1844. 2 The ensuing migration to the Great Salt Lake Basin under the leadership of Brigham Young was followed by the "Mormon Reformation" circa 1857, during which the doctrine of blood atonement was espoused and †
Author: Anthony S. Winer
Institution: Hamline University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W436727045