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Biografisk notat
Cristina M. Rosetti is an assistant professor of humanities at Utah Tech University.
“Cristina Rosetti places Joseph Musser in his rightful place as a consequential figure within the Mormon diaspora. And in so doing, she demonstrates the ideological dimensions of Mormon fundamentalism--a diverse, layered, and even modern expression of religious innovation.”--Benjamin E. Park, author of <i>American Zion: A New History of Mormonism</i>
Musser’s devotion to Joseph Smith’s vision and the faith’s foundational texts reflected a widespread uneasiness with, and reaction against, changes taking place across society. Rosetti analyzes how Musser’s writing and thought knit a disparate group of outcast LDS believers into a movement. She also places Musser’s eventful life against the backdrop of a difficult period in LDS history, when the Church strained to disentangle itself from plural marriage and leaders like Musser emerged to help dissident members make sense of their lives outside the mainstream.
The first book-length account of the Mormon thinker, Joseph White Musser reveals the figure whose teachings helped mold a movement.
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Saint Joseph White Musser
Chapter Two
The Order Pertaining to the Ancient of Days
Chapter Three
An Eternal Requirement
Chapter Four
That the Poor May Be Exalted
Bibliographic Essay
Notes
Index
“Cristina Rosetti places Joseph Musser in his rightful place as a consequential figure within the Mormon diaspora. And in so doing, she demonstrates the ideological dimensions of Mormon fundamentalism--a diverse, layered, and even modern expression of religious innovation.”--Benjamin E. Park, author of <i>American Zion: A New History of Mormonism</i>
Musser’s devotion to Joseph Smith’s vision and the faith’s foundational texts reflected a widespread uneasiness with, and reaction against, changes taking place across society. Rosetti analyzes how Musser’s writing and thought knit a disparate group of outcast LDS believers into a movement. She also places Musser’s eventful life against the backdrop of a difficult period in LDS history, when the Church strained to disentangle itself from plural marriage and leaders like Musser emerged to help dissident members make sense of their lives outside the mainstream.
The first book-length account of the Mormon thinker, Joseph White Musser reveals the figure whose teachings helped mold a movement.
Acknowledgments
Chapter One
Saint Joseph White Musser
Chapter Two
The Order Pertaining to the Ancient of Days
Chapter Three
An Eternal Requirement
Chapter Four
That the Poor May Be Exalted
Bibliographic Essay
Notes
Index