First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0020
S. Harper
{"title":"The Golden Age of That First Great Revelation","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Joseph F. Smith’s efforts to raise the profile of the first vision worked. In their wake, young Latter-day Saints needed only to evoke the vision to make several rhetorical points: that God was embodied and passionate and created humans in his image; that God and Christ were distinct, separate, yet unified; that the Christian churches and creeds were not Christ’s; that God continued to reveal himself; that Joseph Smith was his revelator. These ideas were collective knowledge among Latter-day Saints in 1900. And no story captured and conveyed their shared sense of God, their relationship to him and to other Christians, as potently as the story of Smith’s vision. Memory of Joseph Smith’s first vision was widely diffused among and deeply embedded in Latter-day Saints by 1900. It was widely retold in diverse settings and media and yielded great meaning as a cultural and theological resource.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121461398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0024
Steven C. Harper
{"title":"Censoring Joseph Smith’s Story","authors":"Steven C. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Fawn Brodie’s biography of Joseph Smith and related forces generated dissonance for many Latter-day Saints in the 1950s and 1960s. Some like Jerald Tanner, Sandra McGee, and LaMar Petersen left Mormonism, citing LDS Church censorship of source material related to Smith’s first vision as a reason. Historian James B. Allen expected Joseph Smith’s multiple memories to be complex. He was fascinated by the historical record, not fearful of it. He expected it to be ambivalent and open to various interpretations. His approach to it led to the mature scholarship on Smith’s vision in this era as Smith’s 1832 and 1835 accounts came to light.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124670827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0019
S. Harper
{"title":"The Joseph (F.) Smith Story","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Following the death of Lorenzo Snow in 1901, Joseph F. Smith was next in the line of prophetic successors. Joseph F. became the prophet and president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in autumn. He ramped up efforts to commemorate Joseph Smith’s birthday and especially to rehearse his first vision. In the turn-of-the-century crisis that threatened to undermine Mormonism, Joseph F. Smith’s selection, relation, and repetition of the story of his uncle’s first vision helped the saints navigate their way to a new narrative, one in which plural marriage could be relinquished without eroding the saints’ faith in revelations received by their prophets past or present.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123785319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0008
S. Harper
{"title":"I Heard Him Relate His First Vision","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Joseph Smith’s reluctance to tell of his first vision ended in the 1830s. This chapter revises the old conclusion that Smith did not tell his vision until the 1840s. Research presented for the first time in this chapter reveals that he began telling the vision to small, trusted groups in the 1830s, giving him confidence to tell it more widely in the 1840s.\u0000These tellings created a transactive memory—the beginnings of the saints’ collective memory of the vision—in which several of Smith’s followers shared a detailed story with rich emotional reactions. These experiences created intimacy between Smith and the believers who heard him and those who heard them.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130493108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0014
S. Harper
{"title":"Collective Consolidation Culminates","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Many contingent choices determined whether and how Mormons would remember Smith’s vision. This chapter shows how as late as the late 1870s, after the death of Brigham Young, Latter-day Saints had still not consolidated collective memory of Joseph Smith’s first vision. However, the 1880 canonization of a version of the 1838/39 account symbolized an institutional collective consolidation of the first vision. Orson Pratt, a long-time selector and relater of the vision, witnessed its consolidation before his death in 1881. Pratt was the saints’ foremost relater and repeater of Smith’s first vision, making their shared memory usable, a past for the present.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114569409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0003
S. Harper
{"title":"Past, Present, and Persecution","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Every memory has a culture, and Joseph Smith’s best-known account of his first vision (the 1838/39 account) consolidated in a hostile environment. Smith and his people were driven from Missouri by the governor’s executive order, he was jailed during the winter of 1838–39, and then he escaped to reunite with his exiled followers in Illinois. There he and associates renewed work on a manuscript history that begins with a defensive and defiant account of his first vision. The saints eventually canonized this version of Smith’s memory. It shapes their identity as a people persecuted for transcending creedal Christianity and accessing God directly. That outcome was not inevitable.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127947076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0015
S. Harper
{"title":"The Inception of Mormonism and the Persecuted Present","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Writing to and about Latter-day Saints in the 1870s, both Thomas Stenhouse and Edward Tullidge understood what resonated with Latter-day Saint readers—a persecuted past to make sense of a persecuted present. For both authors, the default starting point for that story was Joseph Smith’s first vision as he remembered it in his persecuted present of 1838/39. Their respective books represented the present concerns in which the Saints’ memory consolidated—enemies at home and abroad intent on undermining Zion. Among those enemies was Stenhouse’s wife, Fanny, whose expose Tell it All, along with her lectures, reached large audiences in England and the United States. To the Latter-day Saints, her book and her husband’s were more reasons to respond in the defensive terms of Smith’s 1838/39 vision account, which begins by responding to many reports put in circulation by “evil-disposed and designing” enemies.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128986193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0012
S. Harper
{"title":"An Interview with Joseph Smith in 1859","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Orson Pratt continued in the roles of selector and relater and repeater throughout his life. As far as the historical record shows, he wrote and spoke more on the topic of Smith’s first vision than any of his contemporaries. He shaped the saints’ collective memory of the vision. Pratt’s many recitals of the first vision were memorable, whereas others’, such as Tullidge’s poem, did not endure. Pratt enjoyed status and authority among the saints, but that alone hardly accounts for his success. His discursive choices brought Joseph Smith back to life and evoked his vision as reassurance that God still favored the Latter-day Saints. Because of his role in the church and his former personal relationship with Joseph Smith, Pratt was more able than others to reach people emotionally and thus memorably.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130931731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0022
S. Harper
{"title":"One Hundred Years of Mormonism","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0022","url":null,"abstract":"The nature of the saints’ memory had to change as Joseph Smith’s vision sank deeper into the past and its foremost selectors, relaters, and repeaters passed away. Jan Assman’s terms communicative and cultural memory characterize the change. Communicative memory is temporary. It can last one generation, maybe two, depending on how well contemporaries of the event live and how well they transfer memory. They have to transmute memory into tradition—into the symbolic forms of cultural memory—to ensure it does not die with them. Young Mormons who came of age in the 1920s were the most likely to acquire enduring cultural memory of Smith’s vision as a result of the widespread commemoration they experienced in their most formative period. Mormonism matured as it turned one hundred. It was no longer a marginalized sect. It had a usable past that situated it safely within host cultures. It had a robust rising generation that could generally identify with Smith’s first vision while accommodating modern challenges to it. It had cultural memory.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123194867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
First VisionPub Date : 2019-09-26DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0002
S. Harper
{"title":"A Few Days After","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on Joseph Smith’s memory of being rejected by a Methodist minister when he claimed to have seen God and Christ while praying in the woods. It argues that the rejection largely determined the way Smith subsequently remembered his experience.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"206 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133419873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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