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Pentecostal Power: A Study on the Origin and Conflicts of Glossolalia within Nineteenth Century Mormonism

Posted on Jul 1, 2013 by in Abstracts | 0 comments

Jeremy Sean LofthouseJeremy Sean Lofthouse
University of Utah Member ΦΑΘ-AP Read at the Utah Regional ΦΑΘ Conference at Utah State University
Published in Utah Historical Review, Vol III.


As the tenants and structure of Moromonism took shape in the 1800s church members and leadership worked toward an understanding of the role glossolalia — the practice of speaking in tongues, would have within the young church. Jeremy Lofthouse explores how the practice was accepted, tolerated and eventually disabused by church leaders through an investigation of both the role it played for leadership and for congregation members.


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Jeremy Lofthouse will be a junior at the University of Utah. He is a double major in History and Religious Studies and is interested in American religious in 19th-century America. He worked as a research assistant for Dr. Colleen McDannell, the Sterling M. McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies at the U. This paper was presented at the regional Phi Alpha Theta History Conference at Utah State University and the Annual History Conference at the University of Utah.

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