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The Nauvoo Endowment Companies, 1845-1846: A Documentary History
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by Richard Van Wagoner, Devery Scott Anderson, and Gary James Bergera
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 648 pages
Published by: Signature Books July 18, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1560851872
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1560851875
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.2 x 2.3 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Book Description
For the two months the Nauvoo temple was in operation (December 1845-February 1846), scribes carefully documented all activities and events taking place inside, including lectures on portions of the ceremonies that were acted out as a play and the significance of sealing rituals. Their narratives begin with the lighting of fires and hauling of water each morning at 3:00 a.m. in preparation for the day's events.
Historians, biographers, and genealogists will find the details (federal marshals searching the building to serve arrest warrants, for instance), as well as the names of initiates and dates of ordinances, to be significant. For general readers, this documentary history also offers evidence of the great sacrifices on the part of the first Mormons, who were anxious to make themselves right before God, strengthen family ties, and unite their community.
About The Author
Devery S. Anderson has published in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (recipient of a Best Article in History Award) and the Journal of Mormon History; currently he is writing a biography of LDS apostle Willard Richards and researching a book on the 1955 racially motivated murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi. He recently graduated from the University of Utah.
Gary James Bergera is managing director of the Smith-Pettit Foundation, former senior editor at Signature Books, and former managing editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. He is the author of Conflict in the Quorum: Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Joseph Smith and editor of The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts, On Desert Trails with Everett Ruess, and other works.
Reader Reviews
This book deals with efforts by Mormon officials after the death of Joseph Smith in Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1844 to ensure that temple endowments were administered to as many of believers in the Mormon religion as possible. It strings together in chronological order many accounts of temple work among the Mormons during 1845 and 1846. The washings and anointings, the eternal marriage ceremonies; the ritual passage from the Garden of Eden through the telestial, terrestrial, and celestial glories; the adoptions; and other endowments depicted in these primary accounts suggest the evolution of the rituals even after the death of Joseph Smith and the promulgation of this aspect of Mormon theology among the rank and file in the church. The haste with which these endowments were undertaken is revealing. On one day, February 6, 1846, 512 people in eight different companies went through the Nauvoo temple. The intention of making these ceremonies available to as many of the Latter-day Saints as possible prior to departing the city was apparent from these actions. This helped to standardize the practice among those who went west with Brigham Young. What is most remarkable about this book from my perspective is the hierarchies created in the rituals in which men were endowed to become kings and gods and women are to become queens and priestesses. The Mormon temple concept as it emerged in Nauvoo with its secrecy, ritualistic washings and anointings, incantations, preoccupation with Old Testament images, and elaborate rites provided for eternal exaltation where faithful Mormons would "inherit thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers, dominions, all heights and depths" implies that others must be subservient (Doctrine and Covenants, section 132:20). The temple rituals as documented here always mandated a second-class position for women beneath their priesthood-holding husbands, but women of the faith would be above all others. Did this set of ideas emerge ambivalently over time or was it deliberately fostered by status anxiety or other more subtle factors? "The Nauvoo Endowment Companies" is a useful addition to the literature of Mormon Nauvoo.
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