Historical Dictionary of the Latter-day Saints
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Thomas G. Alexander is the Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor emeritus of Western American History at Brigham Young University. He has taught Utah, Western, and American Environmental History and has published widely in the history of the American West, Utah, and Latter-day Saint History. He has served as president of a number of national historical associations, and has won a number of prizes for his historical writing.
Davis Bitton (deceased) was Professor Emeritus of History, University of Utah.
<p>The title of the new edition of this dictionary (first published as Historical Dictionary of Mormonism, CH, Jul'94, 31-5756, under the single authorship of the late Bitton) illustrates the recent shift in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the term “Mormon” to “Latter-day Saints,” which the present volume uses throughout. The bulk of the dictionary’s 400-plus entries are Bitton’s work, with Alexander’s revisions in the third and now fourth editions. Alexander is a scholar, as was Bitton, and both served as president of the Mormon History Association. As one might expect, the dictionary has been updated to reflect the people and events that have shaped Latter-day Saint history since the publication of the third edition (2008). Some new entries are topical (RootsTech, Area Seventies), but most are people (these often reflect gender and ethnic diversity, e.g., Sagwitch Timbimboo and Jean B. Bingham). Existing entries have been updated, e.g.,Homosexuality (LGBTQ) and Familysearch.org. The introduction adds a paragraph defending the Latter-day Saints church as Christian rather than a cult. Overall, this fourth edition updates information about the church, and it should serve to alter public perception of an often-misunderstood religious movement. . . the dictionary is a good introduction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.<br /><br /><br /><br />Summing Up: Recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; professionals; general readers.</p>
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a Christian church that was organized by six men in western New York in 1830 under the leadership of Joseph Smith, the church has grown to more than 16 million members today. A restoration of the primitive church organized by Jesus Christ in the first century C. E., the church’s membership was originally all Americans. The church is now, however, a worldwide church with more members who live outside the United States than inside.
The fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Latter-day Saints contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 400 cross-referenced entries on the important people, ideas, doctrine, and events during the hundred-ninety year history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Editor's Foreword (Jon Woronoff)
Preface
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendixes
1.Church Presidents
2.The Family: A Proclamation to the World
3.Temples Dedicated through February 2019
4.The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Bibliography
About the Authors
There is a lot to like about Scarecrow's various Historical Dictionaries series. -Booklist The scope of this series-as its title hints-is truly vast and the number of volumes continues rising to above seventy at present. The works on religion are the most numerous, ranging from world religions like Catholicism or Islam to smaller or more local ones like the Shakers and the Friends (Quakers), from the major Western denominations including Lutheranism or the Baptists to Eastern faiths like Buddhism and Shinto, with a smattering of less strictly defined contingents such as Shamanism and New Age Movements, to say nothing of the marginal but still interesting Witchcraft. The philosophies stretch from Ancient Greek Philosophy, to Medieval Philosophy, to the philosophies of Leibniz, Nietzsche, Hegel and others, and specific categories include Epistemology and Ethics. The movements are many and varied: Civil Rights, Environmentalism, Feminism, and Zionism, just to mention a few. Like all the other series these volumes are written by highly qualified authors with an impressive knowledge of their subject, and who are themselves well known in their field. They apply the now standard format for historical dictionaries. This includes a list of acronyms, chronology and introduction up front and appendixes and bibliography in the back but the the core of the book is the -dictionary+ with literally hundreds of entries on important persons, places and events, concepts and institutions, holy books for the religions, philosophical treatises for the philosophies, and declarations or platforms for the movements, organizations, institutions, activities, and issues.
Series Editor: Jon Woronoff
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Thomas G. Alexander is the Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor emeritus of Western American History at Brigham Young University. He has taught Utah, Western, and American Environmental History and has published widely in the history of the American West, Utah, and Latter-day Saint History. He has served as president of a number of national historical associations, and has won a number of prizes for his historical writing.
Davis Bitton (deceased) was Professor Emeritus of History, University of Utah.