Table of Contents
Preface: Mormon Masonry?
Introduction: The Wax and Wane of Masonry in American Culture
Part I. The Mormon-Masonic Nexus
Reading a Sealed Book Was Joseph Smith a Mason?
Dreaming Masonry: Getting the Story Plumb As the Words of a Book That Is Sealed: The Book of Mormon as Esoteric Male (Hi)Story Fleeing Babel with Mother and Child in Tow
Part II. The Quest Within the Quest
A Bible! A Bible! We Have Got a Bible The Search for the Long Lost Book in the Book of Mormon What Manner of (Masonic) Men?
Part III. The "Anti-Evangelical'' Mind of Joseph Smith Jr.
Whether a Man Can Enter a Second Time into His Mother's Womb Heaven and Hell: Divining the Ghost of Emmanuel Swedenborg Father-Son and Holy GhostMother? The Mormon-God Question
Part IV. The Millennial, Racial, Economic, and Political Confederacy
Thy Kingdom Come: On Earth as It Is in Heaven The Lost Ten Tribes Found: Mormons and Jews The Curse and Redemption of the Lamanites The Economic Kingdom of God: Masonic Utopianism Unveiled Postscript: The "Americanness'' of Mormonism Notes Bibliography Index