Late one night in 1823 Joseph Smith, Jr., was reportedly visited
in his family's farmhouse in upstate New York by an angel named
Moroni. According to Smith, Moroni told him of a buried stack of
gold plates that were inscribed with a history of the Americas'
ancient peoples, and which would restore the pure Gospel message as
Jesus had delivered it to them. Thus began the unlikely career of
the "Book of Mormon," the founding text of the Mormon religion, and
perhaps the most important sacred text ever to originate in the
United States. Here Paul Gutjahr traces the life of this book as it
has formed and fractured different strains of Mormonism and
transformed religious expression around the world.
Gutjahr looks at how the "Book of Mormon" emerged from the
burned-over district of upstate New York, where revivalist
preachers, missionaries, and spiritual entrepreneurs of every
stripe vied for the loyalty of settlers desperate to scratch a
living from the land. He examines how a book that has long been the
subject of ridicule--Mark Twain called it "chloroform in
print"--has more than 150 million copies in print in more than a
hundred languages worldwide. Gutjahr shows how Smith's influential
book launched one of the fastest growing new religions on the
planet, and has featured in everything from comic books and action
figures to feature-length films and an award-winning Broadway
musical.
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