04751cam a2201009 4500 545319124 TxAuBib 20211104120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781469655680 1469655683 9781469655673 1469655675 B07XFH7T9P Amazon B07XFH7T9P Amazon B07XFH7T9P Amazon 297a89d5-ac66-426e-8a64-8155dc2362fe OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4957842 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Davis, William L. Visions in a Seer Stone [Libby eBook] : Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon. The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2674kB. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. composition instruction in early America. early American education and pedagogy. history of composition in America. nineteenth-century sermon culture. translation of the Book of Mormon. history of evangelical preaching. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. nineteenth-century preaching. Congregationalist preaching. American religious history. Charles Grandison Finney. Connecticut River Valley. Second Great Awakening. Presbyterian preaching. revelatory translation. First Great Awakening. plain style preaching. Orality and Literacy. Burned-Over District. community of christ. Western esotericism. Christian occultism. Methodist preaching. magic and religion. George Whitefield. Baptist preaching. laying down heads. Oral Performance. Revival language. Solomon Stoddard. Urim and Thummim. George Campbell. William Perkins. book of mormon. sermon studies. joseph smith. hill cumorah. exhortations. John Wesley. john walker. Adam Clarke. gold plates. seer stones. Hugh Blair. lds church. folk magic. revivalism. mormonism. exhorters. orality. moroni. Mormon. HTML:In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter-Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America.<br /> Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley. Religion & Spirituality. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-01-03 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=297a89d5-ac66-426e-8a64-8155dc2362fe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=297a89d5-ac66-426e-8a64-8155dc2362fe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=297a89d5-ac66-426e-8a64-8155dc2362fe&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)