New Sacred Writing and Charisma : The Transformation of Religious Authority in Nineteenth-Century America

New Sacred Writing and Charisma : The Transformation of Religious Authority in Nineteenth-Century America

Claudia Jetter

Språken
FörlagV&R Unipress
ISBN9783847015017

Mid-nineteenth-century America was a vibrant period marked by charismatic leaders who produced new sacred writing. This book explores the lives and works of Mormon founder Joseph Smith Jr., Methodist revivalist Phoebe Palmer, and Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson, focusing on how their textual p