Mormonism

Covering its historic development, important individuals, and central ideas and issues, this encyclopedia offers broad historical coverage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia helps readers explore a church that has gone from being an object of ridicule and sometimes violent persecution to a worldwide religion, counting prominent businesspeople and political leaders among its members (including former Massachusetts governor and recent presidential candidate Mitt Romney).

The encyclopedia begins with an overview of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-six essays cover the church's history from Joseph Smith's first vision in 1820 to its current global status. This provides a context for subsequent sections of alphabetically organized entries on key events and key figures in Mormon history. A final section looks at important issues such as the church's organization and government, its teachings on family, Mormonism and blacks, Mormonism and women, and Mormonism and Native Americans. Together, these essays and entries, along with revealing primary sources, portray the Mormon experience like no other available reference work.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Mormonism in Historical Context: An Introduction
ERAS
Foundation: 1820-1830
Development: 1831-1844
Exodus and Settlement: 1845-1869
Conflict: 1869-1890
Transition: 1890-1941
Expansion: 1941-Present
EVENTS
Black Hawk War
Book of Mormon
Colonization
Correlation
Exodus from Nauvoo
First Vision
Handcart Migration
Haun's Mill Massacre
Immigration
Kirtland Pentecost
Manifesto
Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
Missouri War
Mormon Battalion
Mountain Meadows Massacre
Nauvoo Legion
Organization of the Church
Pioneering
Priesthood Revelation of 1978
Reformation
Relief Society
Seagulls and Crickets
Smoot Hearings
Temple Work by Proxy
Temples
Ungathered
United States v. Reynolds
Utah War
Word of Wisdom
Youth Programs
Zion's Camp
PEOPLE
Arrington, Leonard James
Bennion, Lowell L.
Benson, Ezra Taft
Brooks, Juanita
Cannon, George Q.
Cannon, Martha Hughes
Clark, J. Reuben Jr.
Grant, Heber J.
Hinckley, Gordon B.
Hunter, Howard W.
Kimball, Spencer W.
Lee, Harold B.
Lyman, Amy Brown
McConkie, Bruce R.
McKay, David O.
Monson, Thomas S.
Nibley, Hugh
Parmley, LaVern Watts
Pratt, Orson and Parley P.
Rigdon, Sidney
Roberts, B. H.
Rogers, Aurelia Spencer
Sessions, Patty Bartlett
Smith, Barbara Bradshaw
Smith, Emma Hale
Smith, George Albert
Smith, Hyrum
Smith, Joseph F.
Smith, Joseph Fielding
Smith, Joseph Jr.
Smith Family
Snow, Eliza R.
Snow, Lorenzo
Spafford, Belle Smith
Talmage, James E.
Taylor, Elmina Shepherd
Taylor, John
Wells, Emmeline B.
Witnesses to the Book of Mormon
Woodruff, Wilford
Young, Brigham
ISSUES
Church Organization and Government
Divergent Churches
Genealogy and Family History
Local Worship
Mormon Missiology
Mormon Scripture
Mormonism and Blacks
Mormonism and Economics
Mormonism and Education
Mormonism and Men
Mormonism and Native Americans
Mormonism and Other Faiths
Mormonism and Race
Mormonism and Science
Mormonism and Secular Government
Mormonism and the Family
Mormonism and Violence
Mormonism and Women
Mormonism as a World Religion
Mormonism as Restoration
Mormonism's Contested Identity
Non-Mormon Views of Mormonism
Polygamy
Chronology
Selected Bibliography
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Index