Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2014. First edition. Paperback. 280pp. Signed by author. The only temple completed by Mormonism's founder, Joseph Smith Jr., the Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio, receives 30,000 Mormon pilgrims every year. Though the site is sacred to all Mormons, the temple’s religious significance and the space.....