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While historians recognize the roots of Mormonism in American Protestantism and the Second Great Awakening of the 1820s and 1830s, [3] [17] Mormonism has also been identified as "a radical departure from traditional"—i.e. mainline—"Protestant Christianity" [18] and a "profoundly primitivist tradition."
The Mormon Reformation was a period of renewed emphasis on spirituality within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and a centrally-directed movement, which called for a spiritual reawakening among church members.
The church regards parts of the Apocrypha, [12] the writings of some Protestant Reformers and non-Christian religious leaders, and the non-religious writings of some philosophers to be inspired, though not canonical. [13] The church's most distinctive scripture, the Book of Mormon, was published by founder Joseph Smith in 1830.
The Latter Day Saint movement arose in the Palmyra and Manchester area of western New York, where its founder Joseph Smith was raised during a period of religious revival in the early 19th century called the Second Great Awakening, a Christian response to the secularism of the Age of Enlightenment which extended throughout the United States, particularly the frontier areas of the west.
In the 19th century, the differences between the LDS Church and the RLDS Church regarding polygamy was the principal distinction between the two churches. The LDS Church openly practiced plural marriage from 1852 to 1890 and taught that the practice was instituted by Joseph Smith and taught in secret to members of the church before his death.
Mormons see Jesus Christ as the premier figure of their religion.. The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) [1] is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian Restorationist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.
Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion. New York: Oxford University Press. Bickmore, Barry R. (1999; Revised Ed, 2013). Restoring the Ancient Church: Joseph Smith and Early Christianity. Redding, CA: FairMormon. Brown, Matthew B. (2009). A Pillar of Light: The History and Message of the First Vision.
A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992) Rosman, Doreen. The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500–2000 (2003) 400pp; Ryrie, Alec. Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World (2017) excerpt, covers last five centuries; Winship, Michael P. Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America (Yale UP ...