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Early Mormonism and the magic world view / D. MichaelQuinn.
- Title
- Early Mormonism and the magic world view / D. MichaelQuinn.
- Author
- Quinn, D. Michael, 1944-2021
- Publication
- Salt Lake City, Utah : Signature Books, 1998.
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- Description
- xxxix, 646 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- In this articulate and insightful book, D. Michael Quinn 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. Folk magic was not unusual for the times and is important in understanding how Mormons may have interpreted developments. Quinn's impressive research provides a much-needed background for the environment that produced Mormonism's founding prophet.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Early america's heritage of religion and magic -- Divining rods, treasure-digging, and seer stones -- Ritual magic, astrology, amulets, and talismans -- Magic parchments and occult mentors -- Visons and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon -- Mormon scriptures, the magic world view, and rural New York's intellectual life -- The persisitence and decline of magic after 1830.
- ISBN
- 1560850892 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^96024658^
- OCLC
- 34832701
- SCSB-12847870
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library