Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
By: William L. Davis
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book …
Want to Read $ 13.79If you liked the nonfiction plot in Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon by William L. Davis , here is a list of 25 books like this:
1. Marvel 1602
By: Peter Sanderson , Neil Gaiman , Andy Kubert , Richard Isanove
3.95
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
In Marvel 1602, award-winning writer Neil Gaiman presents a unique vision of the Marvel Universe se… read more
Want to Read $ 11.49Similar categories in Peter Sanderson's Marvel 1602 book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
"But hope, like heroes, can prove hard to kill."-Peter Sanderson, Marvel 1602
"Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Todo cambia, y nosotros cambiamos con ello"-Peter Sanderson, Marvel 1602
"What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope."-Peter Sanderson, Marvel 1602
"It's a weapon, I understand?" "In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is."-Peter Sanderson, Marvel 1602
2. Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
By: D. Michael Quinn
4.12
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
In this ground-breaking book, D. Michael Quinn masterfully reconstructs an earlier age, finding amp… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in D. Michael Quinn's Early Mormonism and the Magic World View book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
3. The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
By: D. Michael Quinn
4.17
Format: 686 pages, Hardcover
A Mormon historian traces the evolution of the Latter-day Saints' organizational structure from the… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in D. Michael Quinn's The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
4. An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (Volume 1)
By: Grant H. Palmer
4.07
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
Over the past thirty years, an enormous amount of research has been conducted into Mormon origins—J… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Grant H. Palmer's An Insider's View of Mormon Origins (Volume 1) book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
5. Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
By: David Roberts
4.04
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
The revelatory story, now in paperback, of the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrati… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in David Roberts's Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
6. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- nonfiction
7. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
Want to Read $ 12.49Similar categories in Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- religion
- nonfiction
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
8. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.95
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Bart D. Ehrman's Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
9. Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–Deuteronomy
By: None
4.31
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
For the last two centuries, biblical scholars have made discoveries and insights about the Old Test… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in None's Authoring the Old Testament: Genesis–Deuteronomy book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
Similar categories in None's Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
11. No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
By: Fawn M. Brodie
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Fawn M. Brodie's No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
12. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The first major history of Mormonism in a decade, drawing on newly available sources to reveal a pr… read more
Want to Read $ 16.90Similar categories in Benjamin E. Park's American Zion: A New History of Mormonism book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
13. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
By: Michael Schur
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Michael Schur's How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- nonfiction
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
14. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez
4.30
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more
Want to Read $ 9.48Similar categories in Kristin Kobes Du Mez's Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
15. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
By: Timothy Snyder
4.36
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the ris… read more
Want to Read $ 15.99Similar categories in Timothy Snyder's The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- nonfiction
"For the reporters, the heroes of our time"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"Міф Жовтневої революції обіцяв усе; міф Великої Вітчизняної війни не обіцяв нічого."-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
"When [Ivan] Ilyin wrote that the art of politics was “identifying and neutralizing the enemy,"-Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
16. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
By: Amanda Montell
3.85
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultis… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Amanda Montell's Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
"Without language, there are no "cults"."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"Some say people who join cults are “lost."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"With words, we breathe reality into being."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
"The nimble direct sales industry always finds a way to reinvent itself - the capitalist cockroach that just won't stop reincarnating."-Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
17. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Benjamin E. Park's Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
18. Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (A Biography)
By: Dan Vogel
4.01
Format: 744 pages, Hardcover
Rarely does a biographer capture the sense of being in a different time and mindset to the extent … read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Dan Vogel's Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet (A Biography) book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
19. Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
By: William L. Davis
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book … read more
Want to Read $ 13.79Similar categories in William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
20. Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839
By: Dan Vogel
4.78
Format: 1024 pages, Hardcover
When Joseph Smith entered Kirtland, Ohio, for the first time, he had only the year before establish… read more
Want to Read $ 8.99Similar categories in Dan Vogel's Charisma under Pressure: Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1831–1839 book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
21. Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
By: Terryl L. Givens
4.50
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Eugene England (1933-2001)—one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mo… read more
Want to Read $ 15.39Similar categories in Terryl L. Givens's Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
22. Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
By: Matthew L Harris
4.34
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ezra Taft Benson is perhaps the most controversial apostle-president in the history of the Church o… read more
Want to Read $ 21.49Similar categories in Matthew L Harris's Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
23. The LDS Gospel Topics Series: A Scholarly Engagement
By: Matthew L Harris
4.10
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
This anthology provides a scholarly, in-depth analysis of the thirteen Gospel Topics essays issued … read more
Want to Read $ 8.49Similar categories in Matthew L Harris's The LDS Gospel Topics Series: A Scholarly Engagement book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- religion
- nonfiction
24. The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Volume 1: 1 Nephi-Words of Mormon
By: Fatimah Salleh
4.54
Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition
This social justice commentary of the Book of Mormon empowers readers to understand the text as a b… read more
Want to Read $ 7.99Similar categories in Fatimah Salleh's The Book of Mormon for the Least of These, Volume 1: 1 Nephi-Words of Mormon book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
25. Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By: Matthew L. Harris
4.91
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in… read more
Want to Read $ 20.99Similar categories in Matthew L. Harris's Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
26. Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration
By: Cheryl L. Bruno
4.26
Format: 531 pages, Hardcover
While no one thing can entirely explain the rise of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints… read more
Want to Read $ 33.69Similar categories in Cheryl L. Bruno's Method Infinite: Freemasonry and the Mormon Restoration book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
27. Joseph Smith and the Mormons: A Graphic Biography
By: Noah Van Sciver
4.06
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, founder … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Noah Van Sciver's Joseph Smith and the Mormons: A Graphic Biography book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
28. The Great Courses: The New Testament
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.21
Format: None pages, Audiobook
None read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Bart D. Ehrman's The Great Courses: The New Testament book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
29. Mormonism Unvailed
By: Eber D. Howe
3.57
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
Mormonism Unvailed [sic] is an anti-Mormon book published in 1834 by Eber D. Howe. The title page p… read more
Want to Read $ 0.99Similar categories in Eber D. Howe's Mormonism Unvailed book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- religion
- history
- mormonism
30. Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
By: Richard Lyman Bushman
4.56
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
Renowned historian Richard Lyman Bushman presents a vibrant history of the objects that gave birth … read more
Want to Read $ 17.99Similar categories in Richard Lyman Bushman's Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- nonfiction
31. The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
By: D. Michael Quinn
4.05
Format: 960 pages, Hardcover
The Mormon church today is led by an elite group of older men, nearly three-quarters of whom are r… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in D. Michael Quinn's The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power book and William L. Davis's Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- mormonism
