The Power and the Promise
Two daughters, whose lives make their parents proud
Preface
Introduction: A New World Faith
1. Sealed with Blood
2. Beginnings: A Very American Gospel
3. The American Exodus
4. Polygamy Then and Now
5. Redefining the Kingdom of God
6. Almost Mainstream
7. Mormons, Inc.
8. Some Latter-day Stars
9. The Power Pyramid
10. Families Forever
11. A Peculiar People
12. Rituals Sacred and Secret
13. Two by Two
14. Saintly Indoctrination
15. Faithful History
16. The Gold Bible
17. Discovering “Plain and Precious Things”
18. “How God Came to Be God”
19. Are Mormons Christians? Are Non-Mormons Christians?
20. Rivals and Antagonists
21. Dissenters and Exiles
22. Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century
Appendix A:Joseph Smith’s King Follett Discourse
Appendix B:How the Income and Wealth Estimates Were Made
Endnotes
For Further Reading
Searchable Terms
About the Authors
Copyright
About the Publisher
