In heaven as it is on earth
Subtitle: Joseph Smith and the early Mormon conquest of death
By: Samuel Morris Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780199793570
Subjects: Doctrines; Death; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Description: This title provides an interpretation of earliest Mormonism that frames this distinctive religious movement in terms of founder Joseph Smith's struggle to conquer death.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Melancholly reflections" : Joseph Smith and holy dying; title: The corpse and its rest; title: Relics, graves, and the treasure quest; title: Hallowed ground : tombs, Indians, and Eden; title: Seerhood, pure language, and the silence of the grave; title: The new and everlasting covenant; title: Negotiating death and afterlife in Nauvoo; title: The "lineage of my preasthood" and the chain of belonging; title: Divine anthropology : translating the suprahuman chain; title: "Death cannot conquer the hero again" : the death and afterlife of a martyr.