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Can I read Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism’s Founder on EtoBox?
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism’s Founder by Richard Lyman Bushman, Jed Woodworth (co-author) is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism’s Founder about?
Founder of the largest indigenous Christian church in American history, Joseph Smith published the 584-page Book of Mormon when he was twenty-three and went on to organize a church, found cities, and attract thousands of followers before his violent death at age thirty-eight. Richard Bushman, an esteemed cultural historian and a practicing Mormon, moves beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud to explore his personality, his relationships with others, and how he received revela
Who reads Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism’s Founder?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Richard Lyman Bushman, Jed Woodworth (co-author)
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400077533
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Memoir, Christian, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.24 / 5 (4,184 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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