First VisionPub Date : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0029
S. Harper
{"title":"Gone Are the Days","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Richard Bushman’s 2005 biography of Joseph Smith incorporated the findings of the New Mormon history. Bushman saw changes over time in Smith’s vision accounts and granted the critics that point, just not their interpretation that it meant Smith did not experience what he claimed. Bushman did not question whether Smith told the truth about his vision, only what truth he told he time he recorded it. Bushman’s Joseph Smith is therefore not the deceived or deceiving one of Fawn Brodie or Wesley Walters, but neither is he the simplified teenage prophet of the movies and manuals. Though initially barred from use in LDS religious education curriculum, provided the standard interpretation of Smith’s first vision adopted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by 2018. This was most evident in “First Vision Accounts” and Saints: The Standard of Truth, volume 1—products espoused and promoted by LDS leaders.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125268201","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 : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0030
S. Harper
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0030","url":null,"abstract":"By 2015, Latter-day Saints were beginning to consolidate a more resilient cultural memory of Smith’s vision based on unabashed selection, relation, and repetition of Smith’s accounts in church curriculum. Curriculum a generation earlier had avoided any potential first vision controversies. Richard Bushman’s biography of Joseph Smith had been banned, not his interpretation of Smith’s accounts was the curriculum, having been officially selected, related, and repeated via media that was much more likely than a lecture or a textbook to modulate memory formation in young Latter-day Saints. The consolidation of their shared memory will take time. So will the recursion process by which elements are added or subtracted and new memories form. Within a generation, relatively few saints will remember any of the earlier versions of their shared knowledge. This book will preserve those memories.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128512133","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 : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0009
S. Harper
{"title":"Interesting Account","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Transactive memories of Joseph Smith’s first vision—individual memories in communication and combination with each other—enter the historical record in the 1840s. The most significant and far-reaching of these memories is Orson Pratt’s “Interesting Account,” published in Scotland in 1840 after Smith confided his vision to Pratt in 1839. By sharing his memory, Smith ensured that published accounts of the 1840s consolidated via transaction. Individuals remembered and communicated memories, like Smith telling Pratt, who remembered and communicated via “Interesting Account.” That process placed memories in the saints’ buffer, available for selection, relation to other knowledge, and repetition until they became common knowledge. Otherwise, Smith’s memories would have died with him in 1844.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"177 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114806719","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 : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0006
S. Harper
{"title":"Consolidation","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Neuroscience and some leading memory theorists agree that memories take time to develop or consolidate. Joseph Smith’s accounts of his first vision show that he was aware of his awareness during the experience. He consciously experienced the vision as it occurred, but he also re-experienced and interpreted it over time. That process continued throughout his life. This chapter reviews how the 1832, 1835, and 1838/39 accounts are similar and different, and how they line up with criticisms by Fawn Brodie. Finally, this chapter overviews the 1842 account, the last known first vision account to have been written or dictated by Joseph Smith.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126684585","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 : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0023
S. Harper
{"title":"Fundamentalism","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0023","url":null,"abstract":"J. Reuben Clark’s 1938 speech to Mormon religious educators established a litmus test of orthodoxy based on belief in the historicity of Joseph Smith’s first vision. Dale Morgan and then Fawn Brodie provided source-critical readings of the evidence that called the historicity of the vision into question. Mormons who were aware of the tensions between these views had to wrestle with them. Faced with a new attack on Smith’s canonized account of his first vision, prophets and apostles stood with the story, trusting it as history and upholding it as a model for young, increasingly educated Latter-day Saints to follow.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121301477","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 : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0017
S. Harper
{"title":"Straightforward Recital","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Artistically written recursions of Joseph Smith’s first vision also began to appear in the 1880s, particularly through George Cannon and Andrew Jenson. These stories, while not intended to be historical representations, reflected and contributed to the recursion of collective memory and its transmission to the next generation. Distortion, while inevitable with retellings, occurs as the remembering entity favors coherence over accuracy. Forging collective memory from art, music, and print created by a shared memory and a multitude of individual ones, each inevitably distorted compared to Joseph Smith’s own memories of his first vision. But for all that, the collective memory the saints forged became incredibly strong, resilient, and extremely well known to them.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116531160","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 : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0018
S. Harper
{"title":"Filling the Void","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"In 1893, as the Salt Lake temple neared completion, the holiest space in it was finished with a stained-glass window depicting Joseph Smith’s first vision. Like other late-nineteenth-century selectors and relaters, those who put a stained glass depiction of Joseph Smith’s first vision in the Salt Lake temple tolerated inaccuracy better than incoherence, but their objective differed. Christensen composed music and Manwaring painted about the vision so saints generally could internalize a coherent version of it that made sense in their present. Putting stained glass in the holiest temple space certainly did that too, but with the added effect of sacralizing the space and elevating the vision, endowing it with more significance, and signifying its first place in the Mormon narrative both chronologically and seminally.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"30 43","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131500020","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 : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0026
S. Harper
{"title":"Under Attack","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199329472.003.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on newly discovered accounts (1832, 1835) and lots of contextual research, James Allen and Milton Backman added an alternative memory to the buffer on which the saints could draw for memory resources. Believing historians formed a faithful, complex understanding of Smith’s vision that accounted for the incongruity the critics saw in the historical record. The believing historians selected and related new items to old ones. They showed how new elements could be integrated recursively with the long-established story. The laity hardly noticed, however. Compared to the expanding number of Mormons whose conversions were often tied to the canonized account of Smith’s first vision, Mormon historians were a tiny minority. Publishing their findings did almost nothing to alter the Mormon collective memory or make it more resilient to critics. The disruptive potential of the newly discovered records and ways of interpreting them remained latent, waiting for an information age to unleash it.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114654734","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 : 2019-08-22DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0028
S. Harper
{"title":"I Did Not Know","authors":"S. Harper","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780199329472.003.0028","url":null,"abstract":"At the turn of the twenty-first century church leaders and educators took for granted that Latter-day Saints shared the memory of Smith’s vision as their origin story and that it would automatically be transmitted to the next generation. Internet-empowered selectors and relaters disrupted that memory, however, leading many to question both the vision and whether they could trust the church regarding it and other points of history. Though slow to respond to the information age, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remained the most powerful selector and relater of memory elements, and began introducing diverse and effective means of complexifying and solidifying a shared memory of Smith’s first vision.","PeriodicalId":249520,"journal":{"name":"First Vision","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125503606","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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