Name: Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism's Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo
SKU: 51330194
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Author: Scott C. Esplin
ISBN: 9780252083815

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Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism's Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo

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Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Illinois Press

Author

Scott C. Esplin

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

216

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780252083815

Synopsis "Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism's Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo "

In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder in 1844. The quiet farm town became a major Mormon heritage site visited annually by tens of thousands of people. Yet Nauvoo's dramatic restoration proved fraught with conflicts. Scott C. Esplin's social history looks at how Nauvoo's different groups have sparred over heritage and historical memory. The Latter-day Saint project brought it into conflict with the Community of Christ, the Midwestern branch of Mormonism that had kept a foothold in the town and a claim on its Smith-related sites. Non-Mormon locals, meanwhile, sought to maintain the historic place of ancestors who had settled in Nauvoo after the Latter-day Saints' departure. Examining the recent and present-day struggles to define the town, Esplin probes the values of the local groups while placing Nauvoo at the center of Mormonism's attempt to carve a role for itself within the greater narrative of American history.

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