John Bracht provides an overview of the "Americanization" of biblical characters and events in the LDS canon.
- Type
- Academic / Technical Report
- Source
- John Bracht ResignedCritic
- Hearsay
- DirectSecondary
- Reference
John Bracht, "The Americanization of Adam," in Cargo Cults and Millenarian Movements: Transoceanic Comparisons of New Religious Movements, ed. G. W. Trompf (Religion and Society volume 29; Berlin: De Gruyter, 1990), 97-141
- Scribe/Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- People
- John Bracht
- Audience
- Reading Public
PDF- Transcription
[Introduction]
No other religious movement has done more to sacralize America than Mormonism. For them, the United States is, in a sense unparalleled in popular thinking, 'the promised land'. Its scriptures make this an article of faith. The Book of Mormon first published in the early 19th Century has a Sixth-century B.C. prophet fleeing from Jerusalem called Nephi, receiving a revelation from
the Lord: "...inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other lands."
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