عنوان

The Mormon passage of George D. Watt :

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0874217571

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087421758X

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9780874217568

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9780874217575

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9780874217582

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9780874217568

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9780874217575

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عنوان اصلي

The Mormon passage of George D. Watt :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

first British convert, scribe for Zion /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ronald G. Watt.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Logan, Utah :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Utah State University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2009.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (ix, 293 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations, maps

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

"Nineteenth century Mormonism was a frontier religion with roots so entangled with the American experience as to be seen by some scholars as the most American of religions and by others as a direct critique of that experience. Yet it was also a missionary religion that through proselytizing quickly gained an international, if initially mostly Northern European, makeup. This mix brought it a roster of interesting characters: frontiersmen and hardscrabble farmers; preachers and theologians; dreamers and idealists; craftsmen and social engineers. Although the Mormon elite soon took on, as elites do, a rather fixed, dynastic character, the social origins of its first-generation members were quite diverse. The Mormon Church at its beginning provided a good study in upward mobility. George D. Watt was a self-educated English convert with both unusual, for the time and place of frontier Utah, clerical skills and ambitions to improve his status. A man with intellectual pretensions, he had little formal training but a strong will, avid curiosity, and appetite for knowledge. Those traits made up for what he lacked in schooling and drew him into what served as intellectual circles among the Mormon elite and, later, to the church's disenchanted fringe. They also made him, for a time, essential to Brigham Young as a clerk and reporter but sent him into religious and social exile, due to a contest of wills with his employer that Watt had no chance of winning. Reputed to have been the first of the many English converts to the LDS church, Watt's repeatedly demonstrated ability to learn quickly made him an early master of Pitman shorthand, just then coming into use. Employing this skill, he made two important contributions to Mormon literature: First, based on that shorthand, he, more than anyone, created the "Deseret Alphabet," which now is a curiosity but then was an innovation that, intended to create a unique Mormon orthography and pedagogy, stands well for the broad attempt to build in Utah the wholly self-sufficient culture of the Kingdom of God. Second, his efficient note taking allowed him to take down the sermons of Young and other church leaders and publish them in the Journal of Discourses, an indispensable historical record. In addition, Watt learned, thought, and wrote about a variety of subjects, from horticulture to spiritualism, which helped define him as a resident Utah intellectual. He eventually left the Mormon Church, but the records of his domestic life before and after that decision provide a rich portrait of the working of polygamous households, particularly complicated ones in his case. Despite his accomplishments, because of his potential, George Watt's story is at heart a tragedy. His breach with Brigham Young resulted in social isolation, poverty, and rejection by friends and associates. He never, though, lost his sense of independence or his avid mind. Whether facing an economic affront or pressing, in writing, his own conclusions about life and God, he engaged the challenge where he found it."--Publisher's description.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

شماره انبار

22573/ctt47mhmt

عنوان

Mormon passage of George D. Watt.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780874217568

موضوع مستند نشده

Watt, G. D., (George Darling),1812-1881.

موضوع مستند نشده

Watt, G. D., (George Darling),1812-1881.

موضوع مستند نشده

Watt, G. D., (George Darling),1812-1881.

موضوع مستند نشده

Ex-church members-- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

Ex-church members-- United States, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mormon converts-- England, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

Spiritualists-- United States, Biography.

موضوع مستند نشده

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Religious.

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Ex-church members.

موضوع مستند نشده

HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

موضوع مستند نشده

Mormon converts.

موضوع مستند نشده

RELIGION-- Christianity-- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)

موضوع مستند نشده

Spiritualists.

موضوع مستند نشده

England.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

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موضوع مستند نشده

HIS036140

موضوع مستند نشده

REL-- 046000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Watt, Ronald G.

تاريخ عمليات

20201207203654.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

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نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y