Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young
by Ronald W. Walker
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A story that includes spiritualist seances, conspiracy, and an important church trial, Wayward Saints chronicles the 1870s challenge of a group of British Mormon intellectuals to Brigham Young's leadership and authority. William S. Godbe and his associates revolted because they disliked Young's authoritarian community and resented what they perceived as the church's intrusion into matters of personal choice. Expelled from the church, they established the New Movement, which eventually show more faltered. Both a study in intellectual history and an investigation of religious dissent, Wayward Saints explores nineteenth-century American spiritualism as well as the ideas and institutional structure of first- and second-generation Mormonism. show lessTags
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Ronald W. Walker is a professor of history and the director of research at the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute at Brigham Young University.
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- Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young
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- Brigham Young
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- Utah, USA
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History
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- 289.3 — Religion Christian denominations Other denominations and sects Mormonism
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- BX8680 .G63 .W35 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Protestantism Other Protestant denominations Mormons. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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- English
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