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Believing history : Latter-day Saint essays / Richard Lyman Bushman ; edited by Reid L. Neilson and Jed Woodworth

Author
Bushman, Richard L.
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2004]
Copyright Date
©2004
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 291 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Neilson, Reid L., 1972- and Woodworth, Jed
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Language Note
English.
Contents
pt. 1. Belief -- pt. 2. The Book of Mormon and history -- pt. 3. Joseph Smith and culture.
Summary
The eminent historian Richard Bushman here reflects on his faith and the history of his religion. By describing his own struggle to find a basis for belief in a skeptical world, Bushman poses the question of how scholars are to write about subjects in which they are personally invested. Does personal commitment make objectivity impossible? Bushman explicitly, and at points confessionally, explains his own commitments and then explores Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon from the standpoint of belief. Joseph Smith cannot be dismissed as a colorful fraud, Bushman argues, nor seen onl.
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ISBN
9780231529563 (electronic bk.)
0231529562 (electronic bk.)
0231130066 (alk. paper)
9780231130073
0231130074
9780231130066 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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