Title: Equal Rites
Description: "Both the Prophet Joseph Smith and his Book of Mormon have been characterized as ardently, indeed evangelically, anti-Masonic. Yet in this sweeping social, cultural, and religious history of nineteenth-century Mormonism and its milieu, Clyde Forsberg argues that Masonry, like evangelical Christianity, was an essential component of Smith's vision. Smith's ability to imaginatively conjoin the two into a powerful and evocative defense of Christian, or Primitive, Freemasonry was, Forsberg shows, more than anything else responsible for the meteoric rise of Mormonism in the nineteenth century."--Jacket.
Subjects: Book of mormon, Mormon church, doctrines, Women, religious life, United states, church history, Mormon Church, Doctrines, History, Freemasonry, Women, History of doctrines, Criticism, interpretation, Church history, Religious aspects