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To The Peripheries of Mormondom: The Apostolic Around-the-World Journey of David O McKay, 1920-1921
Professor R Neilson
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Description for To The Peripheries of Mormondom: The Apostolic Around-the-World Journey of David O McKay, 1920-1921
Hardcover. The first scholarly annotation of Mormon apostle David O. McKay's around-the-world journey. Editor(s): Neilson, Reid L. Num Pages: 350 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 881.
The year-long fact-finding mission of apostle David O. McKay and his traveling companion Hugh J. Cannon to places historian Leonard J. Arrington has called the ""geographic and organisational periphery"" of Mormondom was one of the most significant moments of the twentieth century for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While the contemporary LDS church has grown to become a global presence, the early decades of the last century found missionaries struggling to gain converts abroad. Cannon's rich and vivid account of his and McKay's 61,646-mile around-the-world journey illustrates the roots of Mormonism's globalisation. The account is without doubt ... Read more
The year-long fact-finding mission of apostle David O. McKay and his traveling companion Hugh J. Cannon to places historian Leonard J. Arrington has called the ""geographic and organisational periphery"" of Mormondom was one of the most significant moments of the twentieth century for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While the contemporary LDS church has grown to become a global presence, the early decades of the last century found missionaries struggling to gain converts abroad. Cannon's rich and vivid account of his and McKay's 61,646-mile around-the-world journey illustrates the roots of Mormonism's globalisation. The account is without doubt ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607810100
SKU
V9781607810100
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About Professor R Neilson
Hugh J. Cannon (1870-1931) was traveling companion to apostle David O. McKay from 1920 to 1921. Reid L. Neilson is an assistant professor of church history and doctrine at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier.
Reviews for To The Peripheries of Mormondom: The Apostolic Around-the-World Journey of David O McKay, 1920-1921
“Anyone interested in David O. McKay must be interested in this journey.”—James B. Allen, Brigham Young University "An exciting history of a remarkable, and somewhat forgotten, journey undertaken at a time when most of the world considered Latter-day Saints to be a solely American institution."—Deseret News "Neilson's careful annotations clarify names, terms, and places along the journey, making ... Read more