Radical Origins
Subtitle: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780252029103
Subjects: Mormons (Church of Latter Day Saints); United States - Civil War; General; Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Da; Biography & Autobiography; Religion - Mormon / LDS; Biography/Autobiography; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Mormon Church; Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (; Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saomts (; Religion / Mormonism; Biography; Church of Jesus Christ of Latt; Genealogy; Mormon converts; Mormons
First sentence: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a special place in American culture.
Description: "Val D. Rust's Radical Origins investigates whether the unconventional religious beliefs of their colonial ancestors predisposed early Mormon converts to embrace the "radical" message of Joseph Smith, Jr. and his new church. Utilizing a set of compiled genealogical data, Rust uncovers the ancestors of early church members throughout what we understand as the radical segment of the Protestant Reformation. Coming from backgrounds in the Antinomians, Seekers, Anabaptists, Quakers, and the Family of Love, many colonial ancestors of the Mormon church's early members had been ostracized from their communities. Expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, some were whipped, mutilated, or even hanged for their beliefs."--BOOK JACKET.