রিয়াদুস সালেহীন (তৃতীয় খণ্ড) (হার্ডকভার) পিডিএফ ডাউনলোড করুন

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I got to this book from Jon Krakauer's amazing Under the Banner of Heaven because I needed to know more about the history of the Mormon Church and Smith himself. Brodie was a well-regarded academic historian and, I gather, an ex-Mormon by the time she wrote this. First and foremost, this is a great story, whether you think Smith is a complete and utter fraud or a prophet, or something in between. Brodie is a skeptic and pulls no punches, which I like, but I found the book weakest where the most important questions arise: how does somebody convince others and then himself that he's a prophet of God, and of the literally unbelievable tale he spun about the plates, the stones, and all the rest? Brodie's various hypotheses (e.g. Smith, perhaps unknowingly, had hypnotic powers) aren't persuasive. Still, this is a strong book on a great topic, almost a page turner, and it's led me to want to know more. So now I'm reading a much more favorable Smith bio, Bushman's Rough Stone Rolling. The comparison is interesting--for example, Brodie makes much of Smith's early work digging for ancient treasure on farms in New York; Bushman pushes this aside.

2022-10-26 05:33