Images of the New Jerusalem: Latter Day Saint Faction Interpretations of Independence, Missouri
The Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri, is associated primarily with its most famous son, President Harry Truman. Yet Independence is also home to a unique and complex religious landscape regarded as sacred space by hundreds of thousands of people associated with the Latter Day Saint family of churches. In 1831 Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint (LDS) movement, declared Independence the site of the New Jerusalem, where followers would build a sacred city, the center of Zion. Smith prophesied that Jesus Christ would return in millennial and glorious advent to Independence, an act that would make the city an American co…
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- ISBN: 978-1-57233-312-3
- EAN: 9781572333123
- Produktnummer: 1376692
- Verlag: Univ Of Tennessee Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 438 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.4 cm 789 g
- Gewicht: 789
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