In heaven as it is on earth : Joseph Smith and the early Mormon conquest of death /
Brown, Samuel Morris.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Melancholly reflections" : Joseph Smith and holy dying -- The corpse and its rest -- Relics, graves, and the treasure quest -- Hallowed ground : tombs, Indians, and Eden -- Seerhood, pure language, and the silence of the grave -- The new and everlasting covenant -- Negotiating death and afterlife in Nauvoo -- The "lineage of my preasthood" and the chain of belonging -- Divine anthropology : translating the suprahuman chain -- "Death cannot conquer the hero again" : the death and afterlife of a martyr.
Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Death