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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Val D. Rust. Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 253. $35.00.
Some years ago Val D. Rust started to research his Mormon ancestors. Driven variously by the fascination of research, familial pride, religious tradition, and the controversy surrounding this reviewer's 1994 book, The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, Rust has persevered to produce a useful and important book based on massive research. In this study he comes closer to establishing definitively that the familial roots of Mormonism lay not in the orthodox Puritanism of the "Great Migration," but in the array of radical sectarians who challenged the magisterial Reformation in the seventeenth century.	1
Rust opens his book with the idea developed by Rodney Stark and William Bainbridge that "predisposition" to sectarian adherence is grounded in wider family and neighborhood histories. Rather than bringing the shattering crisis of total "conversion" to utterly alien beliefs, a new sectarian message will be quickly channeled through a culturally grounded "predisposition" into a psychologically secure framework. Working from this understanding of historical chains of sectarian predisposition, Rust researched the family roots of 583 early (1829–1834) Mormon converts back five generations, to 10,415 forebears born in the 1670s to 1680s. In a series of regional and thematic chapters, he examines the majority of these who were born in or emigrated to New England.	. . .

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