BOOK PREVIEW: SCATTERING THE SAINTS: SCHISM WITHIN MORMONISM

BOOK PREVIEW: SCATTERING THE SAINTS: SCHISM WITHIN MORMONISM This session previews a compilation of essays on the many diverse groups and churches that make up the Latter Day Saint movement. Entitled Scatteringof the Saints: Schism within Mormonism, the volume will be published by John Whitmer Books in September of this year. The volume contains sixteen essays on different expressions of the Latter Day Saint movement that have emerged since Joseph Smith Jr. organized the Church of Christ in 1830. Among those included in the volume are groups who trace their path through Sidney Rigdon, James J. Strang, Alpheus Cutler or Granville Hedrick. Also included are historic (no longer extent) branches of the movement that were led by David Whitmer, William Smith and Amasa Lyman. Finally the volume outlines the history of fundamentalist Mormonism and recent schisms within the Reorganized Latter Day Saint tradition

NEWELL G. BRINGHURST, JOHN HAMER, R. JEAN ADAMS, and ANNE WILDE