Vojtěch Duda - Department of English and American studies; UPOl, Czech Republic

The Mormons


1. Introduction

The meaning of the word ‘Mormons’ is relatively broad. It generally refers to all adherents of so-called Latter Day Saint movement. It is a religious movement, coming from Christianity, formed in the early 1830s by an American farmer Joseph Smith, who claimed to be a God’s prophet who restored the true church of Jesus Christ, as all other Christian denominations had fallen into apostasy and corruption, straying from the God’s truth. The fundamental scripture of the movement is the Book of Mormon, written and published by Joseph Smith, allegedly a new biblical text, translated from ancient gold plates, delivered to Smith by an angel. The book gave its believers this originally pejorative name, as they used to prefer to refer to themselves as Latter Day Saints, because they also believed, that they lived in the end times before the Christ’s Second......

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