From Above and Below: The Mormon Embrace of Revolution, 1840–1940

by Craig Livingston 2014 Best International Book Award, Mormon History Association “In this engaging study, ... Livingston demonstrates how Latter-day Saints interpreted revolutions through their unique theology and millennialism.” — Matthew J. Grow “With profound research in Mormon sources and in academic studies about various social revolutions and political upheavals, Livingston provides a nuanced examination of this little-known dimension of LDS thought .” — D. Michael Quinn   Available in ebook for Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Google Play, and Apple. Also available through Amazon. Book Description: For the first century of their church’s existence, Mormon observers of international events studied and cheered global revolutions as a religious exercise. As believers in divine-human co-agency, many prominent Mormons saw global revolutions as providential precursors to the imminent establishment of the terrestrial kingdom of God. French Revolutionary symbolism, socialist critiques