Terrible Revolution Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
Terrible Revolution Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
- ISBN 13:
9780190080280
- ISBN 10:
0190080280
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 08/03/2020
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
In Terrible Revolution, Christopher James Blythe examines apocalypticism across the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as it took shape in the writings and visions of the laity. The responses of the church hierarchy to apocalyptic lay prophecies promoted their own form of separatist nationalism during the nineteenth century. Yet, after Utah obtained statehood, as the church sought to assimilate to national religious norms, these same leaders sought to lessen the tensions between themselves and American political and cultural powers. As a result, visions of a violent end to the nation became a liability to disavow and regulate. Ultimately, Blythe argues that the visionary world of early Mormonism, with its apocalyptic emphases, continued in the church's mainstream culture in forms but continued to maintain separatist radical forms at the level of folk-belief.