EARLY MORMONISM AND THE MAGIC WORLD VIEW

by Quinn, D. Michael

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Book desription: Salt Lake City: Signature Books. 1987. Cloth in dust jacket. Light shelfwear. Very good. "xxii+313pp., biblio., index. Illustrated in b/w. In this articulate and insightful book, D. Michael Quinn, a professor of history at Brigham Young University, masterfully reconstructs the world view of an earlier age in America, finding ample evidence for treasure seeking and folk magic in Joseph Smith's formative years. Quinn discovers, for example, that Joseph's world was inhabited by supernatural creatures whose existence could be both symbolic and real. He explains that the involvement of the Joseph Smith family in folk magic was not unusual for the times and is important in attempting to understand how early Mormons may have interpreted developments in their history in ways that differ from modern, 20th-centuy perceptions. Quinn's impressive research provides a much- needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism's founding prophet."

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