The development of Mormon communitarianism, 1826-1846
By: by Mario S. DePillis
Publisher: Xerox University Microfilms
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Mormons; Church and social problems; Mormonism; Communitarianism; History; Mormon Church; Religious communities
Notes: "72-7736."

Thesis--Yale University, 1960.

"Bibliographical essay": leaves 359-381.
Table of contents: title: Mormonism, communitarianism, and New England; title: Birds of a feather: Campbellites, Rigdonites, Shakers, and Mormons; title: The more perfect law of the Lord; title: From family to empire; title: The imperial community; title: The empire postponed; title: The persistence of Mormon communitarianism in far west and Nauvoo; title: Conclusion; title: Appendices. Three versions of the United Order revelation; title: "Lease-and-loan" forms and the Prophet's letter concerning inheritances; title: The Harmonists and the Mormons; title: The origin and development of the dual priesthood; title: The Book of Mormon and the revelation of the United Order of Enoch; title: The effect of English and Norwegian converts on Mormonism.