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mormons
Title: mormons
Category: History
Details: Words: 717 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
mormons
“Mormonism began in a cauldron of religious excitement. The Pennsylvanians, eastern New Yorkers, and Yankees who left the rocky soil, rigid society, and lack of opportunity of the New England hill country in the 1790s to settle west of the Catskill and Adirondack mountains were mostly young, disillusioned with their previous economic and spiritual life, and ready to adapt to a new one. When in 1799 and 1800, the Second Great Awakening began to sweep the country, …showed first 75 words of 717 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 717 total…above human passion and earthly circumstance. Both extremes miss the heart of man, whose often contradictory acts and paradoxical rhetoric suggest that the stereotypes ignore his humanity.”11
Some compare Smith to other great religious leaders, such as Moses or Martin Luther. Because these men were born and raised something different than the religion they preached. One source states “...conflict can be seen in Moses -- born Israelite but raised in the house of the pharaoh -- wh
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