| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr. Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture. (Religion and American Culture.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2004. Pp. xxiv, 326. $35.00.
Through manifold parallels, Clyde R. Forsberg, Jr., presents Mormonism as "a revitalization of Masonry" (p. 51) that Joseph Smith, Jr., established as "both a church of Jesus Christ and a Commandery of Knights Templar or Medieval Latter-day Saints" (p. 47). This revisionist, provocative book is myopic and disappointing.	1
Early America, Europe, and the ancient Middle East have many kinds of parallels to Mormon documents, teachings, and practices—archetypal, biblical, cultural, ecclesiastical, liturgical, magical, philosophical, radical, social, textual, theological—but other academics acknowledge significant exceptions from the particular one(s) they emphasize. Forsberg, however, doggedly affirms the legitimacy of only one parallel: the fraternal.	. . .

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