Salvation and Solvency: The Socio-Economic Policies of Early Mormonism

Robert Christian Kahlert

Published by De Gruyter 2016

Salvation and Solvency

The Socio-Economic Policies of Early Mormonism

Robert Christian Kahlert

Volume 133 in the series Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110473476

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About this book

This monograph tracks the development of the socio-economic stance of early Mormonism, an American Millenarian Restorationist movement, through the first fourteen years of the church’s existence, from its incorporation in the spring of 1830 in New York, through Ohio and Missouri and Illinois, up to the lynching of its prophet Joseph Smith Jr in the summer of 1844. Mormonism used a new revelation, the Book of Mormon, and a new apostolically inspired church organization to connect American antiquities to covenant-theological salvation history. The innovative religious strategy was coupled with a conservative socio-economic stance that was supportive of technological innovation.
This analysis of the early Mormon church uses case studies focused on socio-economic problems, such as wealth distribution, the financing of publication projects, land trade and banking, and caring for the poor. In order to correct for the agentive overtones of standard Mormon historiography, both in its supportive and in its detractive stance, the explanatory models of social time from Fernand Braudel’s classic work on the Mediterranean are transferred to and applied in the nineteenth-century American context.

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Robert Christian Kahlert, Korneuburg, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIX
List of Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIX
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XX
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Groundwork
2. Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. Nineteenth-Century Economic Life Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
4. Joseph Smith Jr’s Socio-Economic Baseline Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
5. A New Scripture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Part II: Socio-Economic Case Studies
6. Funding the Book of Mormon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
7. Raiding the Campbellites Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
8. Consecration and Stewardship Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
9. The United Firm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
10. The Kirtland Safety Society Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
11. Settling Nauvoo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
12. Ruling Nauvoo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
13. Nauvoo Loose Ends Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
14. The Evolution of Socio-Economic Policy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Part III: Models and Narratives
15. Braudel’s Mediterranean Models Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
16. Evaluating Mediterranean Models Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
17. Epilogue: Whence Salvation History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
18. Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	404
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Theologians, religious historians, social historians, economic historians
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 452
Keywords: Protestantism; Mormonism; Social History; Economic History

eBook

Published: May 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110473476

Hardcover

Published: May 24, 2016
ISBN: 9783110470208