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Return to the City of Joseph - Modern Mormonism's Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo (Hardcover)
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Return to the City of Joseph - Modern Mormonism's Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo (Hardcover)
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In the mid-twentieth century, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (LDS) returned to Nauvoo, Illinois, home to the
thriving religious community led by Joseph Smith before his murder
in 1844. The quiet farm town became a major Mormon heritage site
visited annually by tens of thousands of people. Yet Nauvoo's
dramatic restoration proved fraught with conflicts. Scott C.
Esplin's social history looks at how Nauvoo's different groups have
sparred over heritage and historical memory. The Latter-day Saint
project brought it into conflict with the Community of Christ, the
Midwestern branch of Mormonism that had kept a foothold in the town
and a claim on its Smith-related sites. Non-Mormon locals,
meanwhile, sought to maintain the historic place of ancestors who
had settled in Nauvoo after the Latter-day Saints' departure.
Examining the recent and present-day struggles to define the town,
Esplin probes the values of the local groups while placing Nauvoo
at the center of Mormonism's attempt to carve a role for itself
within the greater narrative of American history.
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