© Columbia University Press
Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture
November, 2003
Cloth, 352 pages, 39 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12640-3
$42.00
/ £24.50
Preface: Mormon Masonry?
Introduction: The Wax and Wane of Masonry in American Culture
Part I. The Mormon-Masonic Nexus
Reading a Sealed Book
Was Joseph Smith a Mason?
Dreaming Masonry: Getting the Story Plumb
As the Words of a Book That Is Sealed: The Book of Mormon as Esoteric Male (Hi)Story
Fleeing Babel with Mother and Child in Tow
Part II. The Quest Within the Quest
A Bible! A Bible! We Have Got a Bible
The Search for the Long Lost Book in the Book of Mormon
What Manner of (Masonic) Men?
Part III. The "Anti-Evangelical'' Mind of Joseph Smith Jr.
Whether a Man Can Enter a Second Time into His Mother's Womb
Heaven and Hell: Divining the Ghost of Emmanuel Swedenborg
Father-Son and Holy Ghost--Mother? The Mormon-God Question
Part IV. The Millennial, Racial, Economic, and Political Confederacy
Thy Kingdom Come: On Earth as It Is in Heaven
The Lost Ten Tribes Found: Mormons and Jews
The Curse and Redemption of the Lamanites
The Economic Kingdom of God: Masonic Utopianism Unveiled
Postscript: The "Americanness'' of Mormonism
Notes
Bibliography
Index