Binding Earth and Heaven: Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism

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index Page numbers in italics indicate tables. access to patriarchal blessings, 68–70 afflictions subtheme of blessings, 101 age of recipients of blessings, 93 Albiston, John, 141 n. 4 Ames, Ira, 57 Anderson, Lavina Fielding, 31, 57–58 angels Book of Mormon and, 21 as theme of blessings, 77, 79, 82, 96, 97 ultra-supernatural belief in, 61, 100 apostates, 5 authority hierarchies, development of, 114–17 Bainbridge, William, 3, 142 n. 17 Baldwin, Mary, blessing of, 58 banking institutions, 36–37 baptisms, proxy, 44, 110–11 Bates, Irene on access to blessings, 69–70 on contemporary blessings, 118 Lost Legacy, xi, 114 on ordination of patriarch, 52 on patriarchs, 51 on patriarchs and Quorum of Twelve, 117 on routinization of charisma, 114 Bennett, John C., 42, 44 blessing meetings, 17, 57–59, 68 Boggs, Lilburn, 39, 43 Book of Commandments, 22 Book of Mormon authenticity of, 29, 38 content of, 100 Cowdery and, 66 missionaries and, 30 priesthood and, 61 publication of, 22–23, 29 translation/transcription of, 21–22, 29, 49 boundaries and commitment, 16 Boynton, John, 37 Britain ‘‘local’’ patriarchs in, 141 n. 4 missions in, 42 PAGE 163 Bushman, Richard on dedication of Kirtland temple, 36 on exaltation revelations, 77 on office of patriarch, 51 on patriarchal position, 17 on Zion, 99 Caldwell County, Missouri, 38–39 Carlin, Thomas, 42 celestial marriages, 43–44. See also plural marriage and polygamy charisma in early Mormonism, 21–25 of founders of new religions, 5–6 office of patriarch and, 59 role of in new religions, 20–21 routinization of, 114–15, 118 of Smith, 9, 45 Weber analysis of, 140 n. 15 charismatic disposition, 5 Christian primitivism, 21, 23, 31 Christian restoration theology. See restorationism Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). See also Book of Mormon ; First Presidency; missionaries; patriarchs; Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ; temples; Zion, land of administrative functions of, 115–17 Articles of Faith, 139 n. 38 as case study of survival of new religion, 3–5 converts to, 29, 137–38 n. 13 divisions/dissent within, 36–37, 38–39, 44–45 Doctrine and Covenants, 49–50, 136 n. 16, 139 n. 34 frontier experience and, 14–15 general conferences of, 112–14 growth of, 9–10, 15, 135 n. 1 hostility to, 29–30 in Illinois, 40–48 initial appeal of, 4, 21, 23 ................. 18278$ INDX 08-30-12 08:36:42 PS 164 index Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (continued) integration of into U.S. political economy, 15, 108–9 membership of, 1 in Missouri, 38–40 in Ohio, 30–38 origin of, 14, 29 Relief Society, 102, 104, 113, 116 shift from radical restoration to conservation preservation mode, 104 stakes, 141 n. 32 Civil War, anti-Mormonism after, 2 Clayton, William, 47–48 clerks, 66, 67 Commerce, Illinois, 41 commitment mechanisms change in and adaptation of, 106–7 compensatory, 54–57 contemporary, 119 demands, rewards, and, 17–18 description of, 16, 106 in heretical new religions, 2–3 patriarchal blessings as, 4, 18–19, 59, 63–65 sealing authority of patriarchs as, 79 worship services as, 16–17 communal character of patriarchal blessings , 57–59 communalism, 32–33 Community of Christ, 13–14, 50, 149 n. 21. See also Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compensators, religious, 142 n. 17 compensatory commitment rituals, blessings as, 54–57, 59 conflict theory of rituals, 88 consecration, law of, 33 content analysis, 72–76 converts to new religions, 4–5, 23–25 covenants between God and children, 61–62 Cowdery, Oliver as alienated member, 38 blessing of, 71 Christian primitivism, restorationism, and, 23 as historian, 66–67 as missionary, 30–31 as scribe, 29, 66 visions of, 36, 61 cult of domesticity, 91, 104 cults central and peripheral, 89 definition of, 135 n. 5 reinforcing functions of, 102 PAGE 164 Danites, 38–39 doctrinal development process, 85–86, 116–17 doctrinal exposition in general conferences, 112–14 Doniphan, Alexander, 40 Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Marquardt ), 66, 70–72, 75, 125–27 economic panic of 1837, 36 ecstatic forms of religious expression, 35–36, 89 Edmunds-Tucker Bill, 1–2, 15 exaltation, doctrines of, 62, 77 faithfulness subtheme of blessings, 101–2 Far West, Missouri, 38, 39–40 fathers blessing children, 53–54 feast meetings, 57–58 feminist studies of gender norms, 89–90, 102 First Presidency, 42, 46, 71, 113...