Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

About

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a religious organization founded in New York State (United States) in 1830. Its members are known throughout the world as "Mormons". Its headquarters today is in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the Church has had significant influence since Mormons founded it in 1847 after gathering first in the Western Reserve area of Ohio in the 1830's, in western Missouri during the same timeframe, and in Illinois in the 1840's.

Usage

Query: perhaps "mormonism" should be the religion, with a separate page? (the same way the Church of Scientology is separate from scientology) Research needed, e.g. see if this is something addressed by Wikipedia.

Related

• The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a "breakaway sect" which still practices polygyny.

Doctrinal works

• Holy Bible
• The Book of Mormon
  • Skeptic's Annotated Book of Mormon
• Pearl of Great Price
  • Book of Abraham (see also: By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus)
• Doctrine and Covenants
  • List of code names in the Doctrine and Covenants

The Mormons believe that the canon can occasionally be added to, hence the term "open scriptural canon". Most branches of Christianity do not accept this practice, believing that canon must remain fixed.

Prominent Members

• Orson Scott Card

Links

Reference

• official website
• another official website apparently geared more towards those outside the LDS
• Wikipedia:
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Mormonism
  • Mountain Meadows massacre: an unfortunate episode in Mormon history

Official Views

• The Family: A Proclamation to the World: The LDS position on the definition of family and marriage
  • old URL

Unofficial Sites

• Came2Pass: "News For Mormons, By Mormons"

Outside Views

• Deconstructor: Rethinking Mormonism: site with many criticisms to offer, though not entirely unsympathetic
• ex-Mormon blogs:
  • Exposing Mormonism
  • Mormon Truth!!

Views from Former Members

• 1980-11 God and I by Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Related

• 2014/07/02 [L..T] Cliven Bundy's cousin: "He was raised in a racist predicament" "Explaining that she and Bundy were raised as Mormons, Robertson said, “For the first 130 years of our church, they taught that black people carried the curse of Cain,” adding, “That's why their skin was black. He was raised in a racist predicament.”"
• 2014/05/01 [L..T] Why the Mormon Church Won't Say "Homosexuality" "In the LDS leadership, you will rarely hear someone say the words "gay" or "homosexual". Occasionally in older talks they will mention "homosexual" or "lesbian behavior". If you go to their site to research topics, this is what you will find when you search for "homosexual":" ("see Same-Sex Attraction")