Kerry Grogan THE 241-01 Task # 1 Oct.
Facts: Joseph Smith is the founding father of the practice that we know today, Mormonism. He grew up in the early 19th century and as a young teenage boy who claimed to have a series of visitations, revelations from God and visitations from angelic messengers, while he was praying in a grove of trees. Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. The context of this book, along with the literary passages from the bible became guidance for Mormons. As time passed people from all societies questioned and criticized Joseph Smith's claims and his construction of this new practice, yet he was naive and constantly reminded of the vast amounts of acclaim he received from adults, as he was a young teenager. Joseph Smith, his followers, and his legacy thrived off of controversy and soon became known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This newly formed gathering of people followed in Smith's steps as he set out to spread his word, and time and time again, in many various small towns and communities the Mormon members were teased and exiled from neighbors. This was mainly due to Joseph Smith's acclaims to messages from the higher power, which preached on; salvation, the Trinity, religious experience, and church government. Many people who had become exposed to Smith's revelations had questioned it, as it was all too conveniently parallel to the day in age which they lived (Marty, pages 198-201).
Marty's judgment: Martin Marty dedicates numerous pages on Joseph Smith in order to prevail the influential ties that Smith has with Mormonism, as well as other aspects of religious history. Throughout the book Marty uses Smith's revelations as examples to further define other aspects of blooming denominations.
American history has been a history of conflict. ... Here in America is where they were allowed to practice religion as they felt they should. ... History conflicts arise all over and America is a place that has been full of conflict and still is. Religion was a huge part of the beginning of America. ... Americans are proud of their history and most know not to repeat the same mistakes over again. ...
In the American society today there is a mix of all different religions. Today America's religion is pluralistic meaning just that. ... There are a bunch of different religions, and three major religions in America today are Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. These three religions have played a major role in shaping American culture, and way of life. Throughout history Jewish people have combined ordinary and extraordinary religion in basically the same way Native Americans have blended community life, religious practice, and relationships with the natural, social and political world. ...
What is World History? World history is the study of the ways in which the world changes over time. ... He happened to run into the New World, being the Americas, and initially believed he was reaching Asia. ... Terrorist groups that have been traced back to primarily the Middle East recently attacked the United States of America. ... By studying World History one can find the origins of the Muslim religion with Muhammad. ...
China has a long history of 5,000 years. So it has inherited a lot from the long history, except on religions. ... In the long history of China, there was not a single religions be quantified as the religions of the country. ... The United States of America has got 200 years" history only. But the tradition on religions make Americans inherited the spirit of Europeans. ...
Japanese Americans have developed no less than their own brand of civil religion"" (939). ... The Japanese American experience during World War II was the catalyst to a new form of civil religion within the United States of America. ... Jane Naomi Iwamura does a good job of showing the contrasting views of American religion and Japanese religion. ... Stating this, the author shows us that while American religion creates groups within itself, Japanese religion is universal. ... Cultural and ethnic identities are an important part of the Japanese American civil religion, but the author neglect...
Sarna is a leading scholar of American Jewish history and can make a better assumption to the impact of the German Jews on American Jewish life than I can. ... How can an oppressed group of peddlers create such an impact on American Jewish history? ... With this idea being the driving force of so many people immigrating to a new country there was no doubt that they would have a big impact on the culture of their religion within the new land. Within the new land of prosperity German-Jewish theorist like Isaac Lesser and David Einhorn helped shape the American Jewish history through the use of...
Through out history, historians have had the ability to pass on the knowledge of the past because of written documents and other forms of evidence that acknowledge the existence of past civilizations and cultures. ... The Native Americans were a very diverse peoples that many different aspects of religion that varied from tribe to tribe. ... (Aberle, 19) Now, some form of peyote religion is common to most tribes of the North American continent. ... In the words of a member of the NAC, Mary Crow Dog, "The Native American Church became the religion of the poorest of the poor, the conquered, th...
History of Witch Craft Witchcraft is about the third biggest religion in America today. ... This history of Witchcraft is ubelievable. Believe it or not, Witchcraft came to America with the first settlers but it never really became big due to laws brought in about those being found to be witches, practicing witchraft or entering a pact with the devil. ... Contemporary witchcraft has redefined it as a reconstructed form of Pagan religion that worships the Goddess and horned god and has no connection with monarchism or the devil. ...