Divine rite of kings
Subtitle: land, race, same sex, and empire in Mormonism and the esoteric tradition
By: Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781443885515
Subjects: History; Mormon Church; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-230).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!"; title: Esotericism and the "coded word" in Mormonism : toward a new paradigm; title: Kirtland through the Masonic looking glass; title: The Book of Abraham and social perils of sophomore Hebrew; title: Early Mormon racial theorising in a historical perspective; title: Resistance, ritual, sex, and sedition; title: The republicanisation of theocracy and Judaeo-Mormon synthesis; title: Somewhere between white Christian, black Muslim, and Teutonic knight; title: Mormonism's Rosicrucian journey; title: Dawn of a brighter day?; title: The eastern Smiths?