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Title In heaven as it is on earth : Joseph Smith and the early Mormon conquest of death / Samuel Morris Brown.
Author Brown, Samuel Morris, author.
Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011], ©2011.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  236.1 BRO    Check Shelves
Description xii, 392 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Melancholly reflections" : Joseph Smith and holy dying -- The corpse and its rest -- Relics, graves, and the treasure quest -- Hallowed ground : tombs, Indians, and Eden -- Seerhood, pure language, and the silence of the grave -- The new and everlasting covenant -- Negotiating death and afterlife in Nauvoo -- The "lineage of my preasthood" and the chain of belonging -- Divine anthropology : translating the suprahuman chain -- "Death cannot conquer the hero again" : the death and afterlife of a martyr.
Subject Death -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines.
Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844.
ISBN 9780199793570 (hardcover : alk. paper) : $34.95
0199793573 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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