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Obscure Believers: The Mormon Schism of Alpheus Cutler | 
 enlarge | Author: Biloine Whiting Young
Creators: Robert Flanders, Matt Kania, Danny L. Jorgensen
Publisher: Pogo Press
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 196
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Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 6.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 188065427X
Dewey Decimal Number: 289.33
EAN: 9781880654279
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Product Description
Engaging story of a vanished Minnesota community with roots in early Mormonism. Ms. Young tells the tale with consumate skill and deep respect for the small band who struggled the last half of the nineteenth century to establish and maintain stable communal life against the tides of social change. Steeped in Cutlerite traditions and lore, she weaves tale that will mesmerize any reader interested in American religions and the history of Minnesota, southern Iowa, and western Illinois.
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 Culterite History in Iowa and Minnesota May 22, 2008
Aldophus Cutler, a prominent Mormon in Nauvoo, followed Brigham Young as far as Winter Quarters, but in 1853 claimed to be the lawful successor to Joseph Smith. His followers lived in Iowa for a time, but later established their colony of Clitherall midway between Fargo and Saint Cloud. There in Minnesota they experimented with common property, preserved temple ceremonies, and made feeble efforts to preach to the neighboring Ojibwe and Sioux. In 1928, they established a branch in Independence, Missouri, which still survives. Biloine Whiting Young's history follows them from the conversions of Elisha Whiting and Aldophus Cutler in the early 1830s until the court battle between Minnesota and Missouri branches in 1966.
However distinct, the Cutlerite movement was always small. This book numbers them at "twenty families" in the late nineteenth century and at twenty-three individuals in 1966. The detail with which family relationships are described, as well as the frontier stories from colonizing Clitherall, make the work seem like a genealogical narrative in places. Culterite beliefs are sometimes described, but are not the focus of the book. This book seems to be the only Culterite history in-print (as of May 2008). Fortunately, it is a well-researched and enjoyable one.
 women's spirituality August 8, 2002
The hidden gem in this book is how it reveals the persistance of women's spirituality as practiced by this off-shoot of Mormonism. With the dedication of the recently restored Temnple in Nauvoo Ill. It is instructive to see the parallels between orthodox mormon spirituality and that performed by the Cutlerites in Minnesota.
A little insight into standard Mormon practice informs a reading of this book.
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