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In Heaven as It Is on Earth - Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death (Hardcover)
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In Heaven as It Is on Earth - Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death (Hardcover)
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A compelling new interpretation of early Mormonism, Samuel Brown's
In Heaven as It Is On Earth views this religion through the lens of
founder Joseph Smith's profound preoccupation with the specter of
death.
Revisiting historical documents and scripture from this novel
perspective, Brown offers new insight into the origin and meaning
of some of Mormonism's earliest beliefs and practices. The world of
early Mormonism was besieged by death--infant mortality, violence,
and disease were rampant. A prolonged battle with typhoid fever,
punctuated by painful surgeries including a threatened leg
amputation, and the sudden loss of his beloved brother Alvin cast a
long shadow over Smith's own life. Smith embraced and was deeply
influenced by the culture of "holy dying"--with its emphasis on
deathbed salvation, melodramatic bereavement, and belief in the
Providential nature of untimely death--that sought to cope with the
widespread mortality of the period. Seen in this light, Smith's
treasure quest, search for Native origins, distinctive approach to
scripture, and belief in a post-mortal community all acquire new
meaning, as do early Mormonism's Masonic-sounding temple rites and
novel family system. Taken together, the varied themes of early
Mormonism can be interpreted as a campaign to extinguish death
forever. By focusing on Mormon conceptions of death, Brown recasts
the story of first-generation Mormonism, showing a religious
movement and its founder at once vibrant and fragile, intrepid and
unsettled, human and otherworldly.
A lively narrative history, In Heaven As It Is on Earth illuminates
not only the foundational beliefs of early Mormonism but also the
larger issues of family and death in American religious history.
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