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The fifteenth volume of Restoration Studies explores the topic of Common Consent in the Restoration tradition. Editor Peter A. Judd has brought together original contributions from Paul M. Edwards, Alonzo L. Gaskill, Gwendolyn Hawks-Blue, Stephen V. Hatch, Robin Kinkaid Linkhart, Dale E. Luffman, Michele McGrath, Lu Mountenay, Russell L. Osmond, Gregory A. Prince, Mary Ellen Robertson, Manuel Saine, Michael J. Stevenson, and Leonard M. Young.

Michael Reed's invaluable study shines new light on Mormons' complex and ambiguous relationship with the cross. Reed's research, the most exhaustive ever undertaken on this subject, should help other Christians understand the historic, cultural and religious context out of which Latter-day Saint attitudes toward the cross emerged-and it should help Latter-day Saints find greater spiritual meaning in this most poignant and profound of Christian symbols.

The 13th volume in the Restoration Studies series, featuring original articles by Gail Mengel, Dale Luffman, Robert Mesle, Steven Shields, Andrew Robinson, Richard Howard, Michele McGrath, Katherine Goheen, and David Bolton, plus retrospectives by William Russell, Barbara Lee Collins, Ruth Ann Wood, Barbara Howard, and Gwendolyn Hawks-Blue.

The Temple Lot in Jackson County, Missouri, has been a focus in Mormonism since Joseph Smith Jr. predicted it would be the center-place of the New Jerusalem in Christ's millennial kingdom. Although Smith dedicated the site and planned to build a temple on it, the effort was thwarted when his followers were driven from the county in 1833 and from the state in 1839. After Smith's death, his movement divided into rival factions. In 1864, Granville Hedrick, leader of a small group of Restoration believers in Illinois, received a revelation calling upon the faithful to return to Jackson County. Hedrick's group reclaimed the Temple Lot and has come to be known as the Church of Christ (Temple Lot). This heavily illustrated book recounts the story of their attempt to finally build the predicted temple.

Ten RLDS women in their own words. The contributions of women to the history of the Latter Day Saint movement have too often been minimized and their voices have frequently gone unheard. This collection begins to address this omission by publishing the autobiographical narratives - the herstories - of ten women who were members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ). In telling their own stories in their own words, these women give us a more complete and a more compelling vision of RLDS history.

The third son of Joseph and Emma Smith to live to adulthood was born at Far West, Missouri, in 1838. Alexander moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, as a child and lived there half of his life. Alexander served as an apostle, a member of the First Presidency, and as presiding patriarch of the RLDS Church. Much of Alexander's missionary ministry focused on the U.S. far west, including California and Utah. He also performed a South Pacific mission to Tahiti, Australia, and Hawaii. He died in the Nauvoo Mansion House in 1909. In this documentary history, Ronald E. Romig paints a vivid picture of Joseph and Emma's "Far West" son using contemporary writings and images.

Lucy Mack Smith, mother of the Mormon prophet, lived on for twelve years after her son's death. She continued to live in Nauvoo, Illinois, long after most Mormons had abandoned the city. This brief, illustrated history tells the story of Lucy's life in Nauvoo.

This book contains Emma Smith's correspondence with family members. During the course of her life in Nauvoo after her first husband Joseph Smith's death, Emma wrote and received many personal letters to and from family members including Julia Murdock, Joseph Smith III, Alexander H. Smith, David H. Smith, Frederick G. W. Smith, and Major Lewis Bidamon.

The journal includes original research and book reviews on the history of the Latter Day Saint movement by contributors including Rachel Killebrew, Ann Taves, H. Michael Marquardt, Bruce W. Worthen, Russell L. Osmond, Vickie Cleaverly Speek, Lee Krahenbuhl, Sherry Mesle-Morain, Johnny Stephenson, David J. Howlett, Christin Mackay, Michael Allen, and Katherine R. Pollock.

The first in a three-volume anthology in which top scholars examine the entire range and history of Mormon polygamy.

Including Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, eleven Mormons have sought the highest office in the United States. Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster bring their stories to life as the attempt to answer the question, "Is America Ready for a Mormon President?"

Far West, Missouri, was the headquarters of Mormonism during the 1838 Mormon-Missouri War. In this heavily illustrated atlas, John Hamer maps the Mormon settlements that were the backdrop for the war.

When newlyweds Joseph Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith began raising a family in the mountains of Tunbridge Gore, Vermont, they left behind physical evidence of their lives together. The authors of this volume use archaeology and a landscape study to recover some of this information and e Smith family life in the late eighteenth-century "Smith settlement." These sources, when combined with newly discovered written records, shed light on Lucy Smith's early years within the Smith family and suggest a historical and physical setting for her "First Vision."

Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy emerged from LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff's 1890 Manifesto, which ostensibly rescinded the practice of plural marriage among Mormons. This volume explores Mormon fundamentalism from several perspectives. Among the topics considered is the history of mainstream Latter-day Saint polygamy in Mexico, John Taylor's controversial 1886 revelation implying the irrevocability of polygamy, and the rise of fundamentalist Mormon polygamy in the early twentieth century. Other essays provide carefully crafted portraits of fundamentalist Mormon leaders such as Joseph White Musser, Rulon C. Allred, Rulon T. Jeffs, and Warren S. Jeffs.Also discussed is the 1980s schism between the FLDS church and Centennial Park Community, the 2008 Texas raid on the FLDS YFZ Ranch, and modern media stereotyping of Mormon polygamy. Three essays provide personal perspectives on present-day polygamy: a recollection of growing up within a fundamentalist Mormon community, a reading of D&C 132 from a fundamentalist perspective, and an examination of descendants of early Mormon polygamists who embraced fundamentalism. Other areas of research include the changing style of fundamentalist clothing and hair styles, fundamentalist attitudes and practices affecting African-Americans, and the plural wives of fundamentalist Mormon leaders. The volume concludes with a bibliographical evaluation of relevant literature. In this third volume of The Persistence of Polygamy, Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster have assembled seventeen original essays that explore the fascinating history of plural marriage among fundamentalist Mormons-an enduring practice of The Principle.

Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy emerged from LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff's 1890 Manifesto, which ostensibly rescinded the practice of plural marriage among Mormons. This volume explores Mormon fundamentalism from several perspectives. Among the topics considered is the history of mainstream Latter-day Saint polygamy in Mexico, John Taylor's controversial 1886 revelation implying the irrevocability of polygamy, and the rise of fundamentalist Mormon polygamy in the early twentieth century. Other essays provide carefully crafted portraits of fundamentalist Mormon leaders such as Joseph White Musser, Rulon C. Allred, Rulon T. Jeffs, and Warren S. Jeffs. Also discussed is the 1980s schism between the FLDS church and Centennial Park Community, the 2008 Texas raid on the FLDS YFZ Ranch, and modern media stereotyping of Mormon polygamy. Three essays provide personal perspectives on present-day polygamy: a recollection of growing up within a fundamentalist Mormon community, a reading of D&C 132 from a fundamentalist perspective, and an examination of descendants of early Mormon polygamists who embraced fundamentalism. Other areas of research include the changing style of fundamentalist clothing and hair styles, fundamentalist attitudes and practices affecting African-Americans, and the plural wives of fundamentalist Mormon leaders. The volume concludes with a bibliographical evaluation of relevant literature. In this third volume of The Persistence of Polygamy, Newell G. Bringhurst and Craig L. Foster have assembled seventeen original essays that explore the fascinating history of plural marriage among fundamentalist Mormons-an enduring practice of The Principle.