In the past two decades, groundbreaking views by scholars such as D. Michael Quinn, Harold Bloom, John L. Brooke, Jan Shipps, William D. Morain, Lance S. Owens, G. Benson Whittle, C. Jess Groesbeck, and others, have repositioned Joseph Smith as an intuitive voice working within alternative worldviews or traditions, such as folk magic, hermeticism, creative …