| Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition Contributor(s): Shipps, Jan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252014170 ISBN-13: 9780252014178 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1987 Annotation: A highly sophisticated, scholarly analysis of cultural and religious origins and development....Shipps is not only a leading authority on Mormonism but a cultural historian of a very high order. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints (mormon) - Religion | Institutions & Organizations - History |
| Dewey: 289.3 |
| LCCN: 84002672 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.88" W x 9.02" (0.74 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Without fully and consciously realizing that they were doing so, the followers of Jesus established a new religious tradition. This book tells the story of yet another assembly of saints whose history, I believe, is in many respects analogous to the history of those early Christians who thought at first that they had found the only proper way to be Jews. Mormonism started to grow away from traditional Christianity almost immediately upon coming into existence. It began as a movement that understood itself as Christian, but. . . these nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints (as they came to be called) embarked on a path that led to developments that now distinguish their tradition from the Christian tradition as surely as early Christianity was distinguished from its Hebraic context."--From the preface |