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Obscure
Believers
The Morman Schism of Alpheus Cutler
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By
Biloine Whiting Young
240 pages, illustrations, maps, and index.
2002, paperbound
ISBN 1-880654-27-X
Order Number: PP27X
Price: $16.95 |
Engaging
story of a vanished Minnesota community with roots in early Mormonism.
Ms. Young tells the tale with consumate skill and deep respect
for the small band who struggled the last half of the nineteenth
century to establish and maintain stable communal life against
the tides of social change.
Steeped in Cutlerite traditions and lore, she weaves tale that
will mesmerize any reader interested in American religions and
the history of Minnesota, southern Iowa, and western Illinois.
This account
of the rise and demise of the Cutlerites is notable for its sensitive
analysis of feelings and motivations, its engrossing description
of suffering for the sake of a flawed prophet and his prophecies,
and for a new and persuasive interpretation of the role of Native
Americans in that story
-- Mario S. De Pillis, professor emeritus, University of Massachusetts,
and past president of the Mormon History Association.
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