John G. Turner is a historian of American religion, and this Belknap Press of Harvard University Press book is his standard modern scholarly biography of Brigham Young, written from outside the Latter-day Saint movement with access to church archives. Its strength is that it treats the full record even handedly, including the westward colonization, the church's historical teaching on race, the practice of plural marriage and the Mountain Meadows Massacre, rather than either a hagiographic or a purely hostile account. Its limit is that as a single volume biography it necessarily compresses a long and consequential life, so a claim needing exhaustive detail on one specific episode is better served by a source focused on that episode.
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Published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press as John G. Turner's scholarly biography, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesThe standard modern scholarly biography of Brigham Young, by a historian of American religion writing from outside the movement with access to church archives. Even-handed on the colonisation, the racial teaching, the plural marriages and Mountain Meadows.
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AuthorJohn G. Turner
PublisherBelknap Press of Harvard University Press
Publication Year2012
URLhttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674416857
Source Typeacademic biography
Claims Backed By This Source (37 claims)
This source backs 37 claims across the atlas. As facts: 26 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds, 1 connected. Plus 8 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Holidays & Festivals, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Spread Events, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 4 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Historical Figures, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Religious Organization & Structure, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Doctrines, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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26Religious Organization & Structure
General References
8Religious Organization & Structure
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