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By focusing on Mormon conceptions of death, Brown recasts the story of first-generation Mormonism, showing a religious movement and its founder at once vibrant and fragile, intrepid and unsettled, human and otherworldly.\n\nA lively narrative history, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic\"\u003eIn Heaven as It Is on Earth\u003c\/span\u003e illuminates not only the foundational beliefs of early Mormonism but also the larger issues of family and death in American religious history.\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"features\" style=\"font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;text-align: -webkit-auto\"\u003e\n\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"Features\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"margin-top: 0.8em;margin-bottom: 0.1em;color: #5a4726;font-style: normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003eFeatures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"list-style-type: disc;margin-left: 25px;padding-left: 0px\"\u003e\n \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003eDraws extensively on historical sources concerning the Mormon concept of death\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003eOffers insight into the way Joseph Smith's newly founded church operated in the lives of its founding generation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n \t\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003eIlluminates the meaning of seemingly disparate aspects of the careers of Joseph Smith and the church he founded\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"reviews\" style=\"font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;font-style: normal;text-align: -webkit-auto\"\u003e\n\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003e\u003ca name=\"Reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003ch2 style=\"margin-top: 0.8em;margin-bottom: 0.1em;color: #5a4726;font-style: normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003e\"In this groundbreaking and important volume, Brown... delves deeply into the many streams of thought that informed Smith's formulation of the life hereafter... Emerging at a time of intense religious competition, Smith and his closest associates developed a wonderfully complex belief system that mapped out the next life with clarity and consistency. Brown offers us a masterful look at this intriguing aspect of the Mormon worldview. This is must reading for students of the American religious tradition.\"--\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/span\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003e\"This is a book purportedly about the dead and the conquest of death in early Mormonism. It is actually much more than that. It traces the development of a large number of Joseph Smith's most fundamental teachings from the beginning to his death. Brown weaves the most exotic elements of Mormonism-seerstones, new names, hieroglyphs, angels, the Adamic tongue, Masonic catechisms, seals, ritual adoptions-into an illuminating and compelling explication of Joseph Smith's beliefs about the temple, family, and human salvation.\"\n---Richard Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em 0px\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: x-small\"\u003e\"Scholars have looked long and hard at the Puritan way of death as well as the development of the funeral industry's way of death. Working in between those historical domains on early Mormon views and practices of holy dying, Samuel Brown has produced an imaginative, yet gravely serious book-one of obvious consequence for Mormon studies, but also one of broad resonance in American studies.\"\n---Leigh E. 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