Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays

Richard Lyman Bushman. Edited by Reid L. Neilson and Jed Woodworth

Paper, 312 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13007-3
$26.00

May, 2004
Cloth, 312 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13006-6
$75.00

Preface

Introduction

Faithful History

My Belief

Learning to Believe

The Social Dimensions of Rationality

The Book of Mormon and the American Revolution

The Book of Mormon in Early Mormon History

The Lamanite View of Book of Mormon History

The Recovery of the Book of Mormon

The Book of Mormon and Its Critics

Joseph Smith and Skepticism

Joseph Smith in the Current Age

Making Space for the Mormons

The Visionary World of Joseph Smith

Was Joseph Smith a Gentleman?

Joseph Smith as Translator

"The Little, Narrow Prison" of Language

A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-first Century

Afterword

Related Subjects

• American History
• American Religion

About the Author

Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University. Reid L. Neilson is assistant professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. Jed Woodworth is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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