{"product_id":"kirtland-temple-9780252038488","title":"Kirtland Temple","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe only temple completed by Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith Jr, the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio, receives 30,000 Mormon pilgrims every year. This book sets the biography of Kirtland Temple against the backdrop of religious rivalry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBest First Book Award, Mormon History Association, 2015. Smith-Pettit Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association, 2015.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eKirtland Temple\u003c\/i\u003e is a thought-provoking, informative, and path-breaking study that opens up a significant new topic in Mormon history. David Howlett is among the ablest and most accomplished younger scholars of Mormon history today. In \u003ci\u003eKirtland Temple\u003c\/i\u003e, he has produced a thoroughly researched and thoughtfully nuanced--yet also highly readable--analytical narrative about a much-contested Mormon sacred site during more than a century and a half. This study has given me more insight into the complex and divergent development of the two main branches of the Mormon movement than any other book I have read.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Lawrence Foster, author of \u003ci\u003eReligion and Sexuality: The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very well written and interesting. . . . it raises issues that will be as relevant 100 years from now as they are today—specifically, the relationship between sacred space, violence, and religious pluralism. . . . Ultimately, this may be the most important book about the Mormon experience as a whole that will be written in 2014.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Association of Mormon Letters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Howlett's concept of parallel pilgrimage is the star of this book, a useful tool that will hopefully be applied to other pilgrimage sites.  An excellent source for scholars of American religion, ritual studies, and inter-religious dialogue.\"--\u003ci\u003eNovo Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Howlett's biography of the temple lays the essential by bringing forward all the critical data for review. He opens many new avenues of study and starts a significant and fruitful dialogue about the temple and contestation of sacred space. David Howlett's book makes a significant contribution to the cause of Mormon history and is essential reading for those interested in the history of Kirtland and its temple.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Mormon History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If visitors to the Kirtland Temple were to read Howlett's book, they would have a greater appreciation of the space they were encountering. . . . he has presented a framework within which a better understanding of the Kirtland Temple can occur from the perspectives of various Mormon belief systems.\"--\u003ci\u003eBYU Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If visitors to the Kirtland Temple were to read Howlett's book, they would have a greater appreciation of the space they were encountering. . . . he has presented a framework within which a better understanding of the Kirtland Temple can occur from the perspectives of various Mormon belief systems.\"--\u003ci\u003eBYU Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eKirkland Temple\u003c\/i\u003e] makes several important contributions to Mormon history.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Howlett's biography of the temple lays the essential by bringing forward all the critical data for review. He opens many new avenues of study and starts a significant and fruitful dialogue about the temple and contestation of sacred space. David Howlett's book makes a significant contribution to the cause of Mormon history and is essential reading for those interested in the history of Kirtland and its temple.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of Mormon History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Overall, this is a fascinating and informative study of the Kirtland Temple that unveils the complex histories of various factional descendants of Joseph Smith's nineteenth-century religious movement. . . . Howlett's work makes exceptional contributions in American religious history and specifically Mormon history.\"--Thomas Bremer, author of \u003ci\u003eBlessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400431247703,"sku":"9780252038488","price":77.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252038488.jpg?v=1730470664","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kirtland-temple-9780252038488","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}