Reincarnation in Early Mormonism - Paperback

by Kirk Watson (Author)

Belief in reincarnation has been discountenanced in mainstream Mormonism for over a century.

However, from its early history, beginning with the religion's founder Joseph Smith, it has had a place in the faith. Reincarnation has been carried on as an unsaid implication, a secret doctrine, a family tradition, a heresy. It has been suppressed and reappeared numerous times. This book documents the early history of this controversial doctrinal idea in Mormonism, from the 1840s to the early 1900s.

This book also contains relevant transcriptions from the diaries of onetime reincarnation obsessive and later Church Apostle, Orson F. Whitney (1855-1931). This edition also includes a news article that was reprinted across the country in 1884-1885, claiming that reincarnation was an important part of the Mormon creed.