Divine Rite of Kings : Land, Race, Same Sex, and Empire in Mormonism and the Esoteric Tradition /

Divine Rite of Kings: Land, Race, Same Sex, and Empire in Mormonism and the Esoteric Tradition is a social-historical-political analysis of the religion of the Latter-day Saints as deeply indebted to a variety of esoteric systems of belief. It argues that the present campaign against gay marriage an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jr., Clyde R. Forsberg
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Subjects:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > History.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Latter Day Saint churches > History.
Other Nonconformist & Evangelical Churches.
Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought.
Gay & Lesbian studies.
RELIGION > Christianity > Denominations.
Mormon Church
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
  • Esotericism and the "coded word" in Mormonism : toward a new paradigm
  • Kirtland through the Masonic looking glass
  • The Book of Abraham and social perils of sophomore Hebrew
  • Early Mormon racial theorising in a historical perspective
  • Resistance, ritual, sex, and sedition
  • The republicanisation of theocracy and Judaeo-Mormon synthesis
  • Somewhere between white Christian, black Muslim, and Teutonic knight
  • Mormonism's Rosicrucian journey
  • Dawn of a brighter day?
  • The eastern Smiths?

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