“Aunt Jane” or Joseph’s Adopted Daughter?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Perry Mueller
Keyword(s):  
African Descent ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Covenantal Community ◽  
The City

This chapter examines the period during which the Latter-day Saints built “the City of Joseph” in Nauvoo, Illinois. During this time, in a limited manner the Mormons attempted to create a Zion that included people of African descent. Both contemporaneous and retrospective archival records from this period portray Joseph Smith Jr. as a prophet who welcomed blacks as (all but) full members of the Mormon covenantal community. Yet Joseph and other Smith family members were far from colorblind. In fact, the Smiths’ willingness to accept black Mormons like Jane Manning James was predicated on the black Mormons’ ability to overcome the legacy of spiritual inferiority of the cursed lineages into which they were born. If they remained faithful to the gospel, then their cursed bloodlines would be purified. This inward change meant that these black Saints could become equal to their white brethren and (eventually) white themselves.

The Mormon City in Decline

2018 ◽  
pp. 12-30
Author(s):  
Scott C. Esplin
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

This chapter examines the preparation for and eventual abandonment of Nauvoo, Illinois, by the Mormons following the 1844 death of Joseph Smith, the founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism). It marks the failed attempts to sell properties by the faith’s new leader, Brigham Young, and the eventual resettlement of the city by a French communal society known as the Icarians. The chapter also traces the Icarian’s demise and the German farmers and vintners who next occupied Nauvoo, transforming it into a rural river village by occupying, repurposing, or removing remaining Mormon structures while remaking the city’s religious character.

Return to the City of Joseph

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott C. Esplin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

In the 1840s, Nauvoo, Illinois, was a religious boomtown, the headquarters for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), a controversial religion whose theology, social practices, and solidarity led to cultural conflict. By the mid-1840s, Joseph Smith, the religion’s prophet-leader, was killed, and thousands of Mormons relocated west to Utah. During the twentieth century, the Latter-day Saints returned to their former headquarters in Nauvoo, Illinois, in a dramatic way. Acquiring nearly half of the property in the city, the faith transformed the sleepy Mississippi River town into a historical re-creation of its earlier splendor. However, as it did in the nineteenth century, Mormonism’s presence in western Illinois in the twentieth century created conflict. Competing groups, including the religion’s sister faith, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ, offered a rival interpretation of Nauvoo’s past. Additionally, community members without a connection to either branch of Mormonism sought to preserve their own rich history in the city. Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo examines the conflicts over historical memory that have developed as Mormonism returned to western Illinois. It focuses on the social history of the community, examining interactions between groups impacted by Mormonism’s touristic takeover. In a broader way, it also intersects with studies of historical tourism and pilgrimage.

“The Way of the Transgressor Is Hard”

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-91
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Economic Community ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

This chapter mentions HR 0627, which tenders an apology to the Latter-day Saints for the misguided expulsion of their Mormon ancestors from the city of Nauvoo and the State of Illinois in 1846. It recounts the years after the Mormons were expelled from Missouri in 1838 to 1839, in which the Saints developed the swamp land in the far west of the state into the thriving economic community of Nauvoo. It also looks into the argument about HR 0627's contention that the Saints were initially expelled from Missouri and welcomed in Illinois in part because Joseph Smith was a strong anti-slavery advocate. The chapter analyzes the problem related to HR 0627 that wrongly isolates Mormon expulsion from any larger political context. It also offers an alternative narrative that puts Illinois's removal of both Indians and Mormons in the context of gender, political culture, and ultimately American empire.

Nauvoo as a Reorganized Church Foothold

2018 ◽  
pp. 31-49
Author(s):  
Scott C. Esplin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
Community Of Christ ◽  
The City

Though Nauvoo was abandoned by most Latter-day Saints in the nineteenth century, Emma Smith, the widow of Church founder Joseph Smith, and her children remained in the city, maintaining a Mormon presence in western Illinois. This chapter examines the rise of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Community of Christ), founded by Smith’s children, and their use of family and historic sites in Nauvoo in the early twentieth century. It discusses the transformation of these sites from family residences to religious tourism centers used to proselytize people to the faith. It also introduces the competing views of Mormonism that developed between the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Reorganized Church.

A City-State on a Hill

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Spencer W. McBride
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
State Legislature ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Church Member ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

This chapter examines the founding and the incorporation of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith works with new church member John C. Bennett to draft a charter that grants Nauvoo an unprecedented combination of powers. Smith and Bennett argue that such powers are necessary to protect the Latter-day Saints from a repeat of the persecutions they experienced in Missouri and that the federal government’s refusal to protect religious minorities made such protections even more important at the local level. Illinois is divided between the Whigs and the Democrats at this time, and both parties are courting the support of the Mormons. As a result, the charter is approved overwhelmingly by the Illinois state legislature.

Esotericism and the “Coded Word” in Mormonism

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Clyde Forsberg Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Popular Religion ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Playing Field ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
New Religion

In the history of American popular religion, the Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, have undergone a series of paradigmatic shifts in order to join the Christian mainstream, abandoning such controversial core doctrines and institutions as polygamy and the political kingdom of God. Mormon historians have played an important role in this metamorphosis, employing a version (if not perversion) of the Church-Sect Dichotomy to change the past in order to control the future, arguing, in effect, that founder Joseph Smith Jr’s erstwhile magical beliefs and practices gave way to a more “mature” and bible-based self-understanding which is then said to best describe the religion that he founded in 1830. However, an “esoteric approach” as Faivre and Hanegraaff understand the term has much to offer the study of Mormonism as an old, new religion and the basis for a more even methodological playing field and new interpretation of Mormonism as equally magical (Masonic) and biblical (Evangelical) despite appearances. This article will focus on early Mormonism’s fascination with and employment of ciphers, or “the coded word,” essential to such foundation texts as the Book of Mormon and “Book of Abraham,” as well as the somewhat contradictory, albeit colonial understanding of African character and destiny in these two hermetic works of divine inspiration and social commentary in the Latter-day Saint canonical tradition.

scholarly journals Kegiatan Pemantauan Kasus Covid 19

2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Indra Karana
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facility ◽  
Shortness Of Breath ◽  
Running Water ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
The City ◽  
At Home

ABSTRAKCOVID-19 adalah penyakit yang disebabkan Novel Coronavirus 2019. Gejalanya bergejala mirip dengan flu biasa, namun COVID-19 sampai saat ini memiliki fatalitas lebih tinggi dan virus ini juga menyebar dengan sangat cepat karena bisa pindah dari orang ke orang bahkan sebelum orang tersebut menunjukkan gejala. Cara isolasi mandiri dirumah yaitu selalu memakai masker dan membuang masker bekas ditempat yang ditentukan,  jika sakit (ada gejala demam, flu dan batuk) maka tetap di rumah. Jangan pergi bekerja, sekolah, ke pasar atau ke ruang publik untuk mencegah penularan masyarakat, manfaatkan fasilitas telemedicine atau sosial media kesehatan dan hindari transportasi publik. Beritahu dokter dan perawat tentang keluhan dan gejala, serta riwayat bekerja ke daerah terjangkit atau kontak dengan pasien COVID-19, selama dirumah, bisa bekerja di rumah. Gunakan kamar terpisah dari anggota keluarga lainya, dan jaga jarak 1 meter dari anggota keluarga, tentukan pengecekan suhu harian, amati batuk dan sesak nafas. Hindari pemakaian bersama peralatan makan dan mandi dan tempat tidur, terapkan perilaku hidup sehat dan bersih, serta konsumsi makanan bergizi, mencuci tangan dengan sabun dan air mengalir dan lakukan etika batuk dan bersin, jaga kebersihan dan kesehatan rumah dengan cairan desinfektan. Selalu berada di ruang terbuka dan berjemur di bawah sinar matahari setiap pagi (±15-30 menit), Hubungi segera fasilitas pelayanan kesehatan jika sakit berlanjut seperti sesak nafas dan demam tinggi, untuk mendapatkan perawatan lebih lanjut. Tujuan pengabdian masyarakat ini adalah untuk melakukan pemantauan kasus covid 19 di Kota Bandung. Kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini memberikan pelayanan dengan melakukan pemantauan agar mengetahui keadaan, kondisi dan perkembangan yang dialami oleh warga yang terpapar covid 19 di Kota Bandung. Hasil pengabdian masyarakat diperoleh seluruh warga yang terpapar covid 19 sudah dalam keadaan sehat dan pulih seperti sedia kala. Kata Kunci: Pemantauan kasus covid 19. ABSTRACT COVID-19 is a disease caused by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus. The symptoms are similar to the common cold, but COVID-19 has so far had a higher fatality and this virus also spreads very quickly because it can move from person to person even before the person shows symptoms. . The way to self-isolate at home is to always wear a mask and throw away used masks in the designated place, if you are sick (symptoms of fever, flu and cough) then stay at home. Do not go to work, school, to the market or to public spaces to prevent community transmission, take advantage of telemedicine facilities or health social media and avoid public transportation. Tell doctors and nurses about complaints and symptoms, as well as a history of working in infected areas or in contact with COVID-19 patients, while at home, you can work at home. Use a separate room from other family members, and keep a distance of 1 meter from family members, determine daily temperature checks, observe coughs and shortness of breath. Avoid sharing eating and bathing utensils and bedding, apply healthy and clean living habits, and consume nutritious food, wash hands with soap and running water and practice coughing and sneezing etiquette, keep your home clean and healthy with disinfectant liquid. Always be in an open space and bask in the sun every morning (±15-30 minutes), Contact the health care facility immediately if the illness persists such as shortness of breath and high fever, to get further treatment. The purpose of this community service is to monitor COVID-19 cases in the city of Bandung. This community service activity provides services by monitoring to find out the conditions, conditions, and developments experienced by residents exposed to COVID-19 in the city of Bandung. The results of community service were obtained that all residents who were exposed to COVID-19 were in good health and recovered as usual. Keywords: Monitoring cases of covid 19.

scholarly journals Religion and Revolution: Joseph Smith, Abraham Lincoln, and the Book of Mormon

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. p42
Author(s):  
Sri Michael Das
Keyword(s):  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Human History ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
False Prophet ◽  
Con Artist

The name Joseph Smith, b. 23 December 1803, d. 27 June, 1844 invokes words like heretic, false prophet, con artist and fruitcake. No stranger to con artistry or the interior of a prisoner cell, Smith was arrested numerous times on legitimate charges, he also accomplished something no other Prophet did: developed the character and strategies for First Citizen of Humanity, Abraham Lincoln and helped start a War Between the States that enslaved men might be free. Though he never lived to see his Book of Mormon accomplish its ends, he, along with the Latter Day Saints were never given recognition, not even informally for this, humankind’s the most important task. The most important in human history. In this paper I detail important elements of Smith’s and his Church’s work and also illuminate his ties to Mr. Lincoln, and mourn the wayward Church of today. Perhaps revisiting Mister Smith’s Vision will reignite all of us and cause us to rise up and wage one more War against tyranny, weaponry, waste, abuse, neglect, and utter ignorance of our innate spiritual principals.

scholarly journals The use of the Dangerous Decibels® program for refrigeration company workers and their children: an intergenerational pilot study

Revista CEFAC ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciana Bramati ◽  
Lys Maria Allenstein Gondim ◽  
Adriana Bender Moreira de Lacerda
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Educational Intervention ◽  
Intervention Study ◽  
Intervention Strategy ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Health It ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Hearing Health ◽  
The City

ABSTRACT Objective: to report the use of the Dangerous Decibels® program for workers of a refrigeration company and their children as an intervention strategy for hearing health. Methods: an intervention study conducted in the city of Chapecó, SC, Brazil. Eight workers from a refrigeration company and their children participated in the study. The strategies adopted were those proposed by the Dangerous Decibels® program. Results: the Dangerous Decibels® program strategies contributed to the reflection on noise and favored interaction among participants. Workers and their children mutually committed to protecting and preserving hearing by passing on the knowledge gained to other family members, friends, and co-workers. The three basic principles of the Dangerous Decibels® program adopted by the participants were: Move away from noise, turn down the volume and protect the ears. Conclusion: the Dangerous Decibels® program developed in an intergenerational context was well received and accepted by workers and their children. As an educational intervention strategy for hearing health, it proved to be viable, convenient and with adequate content to be used simultaneously in populations of different age groups.

Translation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Taves
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Joseph Smith ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
The Third ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
The Church

In 1823, Joseph Smith (1805–44), a farmer and treasure seeker in Upstate New York, had a vision in which a personage told him of ancient golden plates buried in a hillside, which Mormons claim he recovered, translated, and published as the Book of Mormon (1830) and which led to the founding of a restored church (1830). The revelation to Smith that Mormons now refer to as “D&C 3,” that is, the third revelation in the current edition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' canonized Doctrine and Covenants, provides our first direct window into the emergence of early Mormonism. Although there is evidence to suggest that Smith received what he and others viewed as revelations prior to this one, this is the first revelation that was written down at about the time it was received. This chapter centers on that revelation, using it to reconstruct not only the event itself but the events that led up to and followed from it, as they likely appeared to those who were involved at the time.

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