The Founder of Mormonism A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr… With an Introductory Preface by Prof. George Trumbell Ladd

The Founder of Mormonism A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr… With an Introductory Preface by Prof. George Trumbell Ladd

Author: Riley, I. Woodbridge (May 20, 1869 – September 2, 1933)

12mo. (5" x 7.5")1903. Riley, I. Woodbridge. London. Wiliam Heinemann. Ex-Library. Full red cloth, upper board with large gray embossed shield reading "Boots Booklovers Library", rear board with blindstamped publishers colophon to lower corner. Spine with (faded) gilt title/subject towards head, gilt author towards center with gilt publisher at foot. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to lower tips, head and foot of spine ruffled with small loss of color, covers lightly soiled, scuffed and rubbed. Textblock shaken, gutter showing mesh after half-title page and just before rear pastedown. Library borrower's slip to rear pastedown, blue ink library stamp to reverse of photographic frontispiece. Illustrated with photo plates and manuscript facsimiles.

From Wiki: Isaac Woodbridge Riley (May 20, 1869 – September 2, 1933) was an American academic scholar who worked in and across the areas of philosophy, religion, and psychology. His published work often combined two of these disciplines in considering the historical development of a social movement or entity (such as a church), particularly examining the influence of the founders' psychological character. His books concerning the foundation and moral standing of Mormonism and Christian Science made him a focus of controversy. Most of his career was spent as a professor of philosophy at Vassar College. Riley's Ph.D. thesis at Yale was The Founder of Mormonism: A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, published in 1902. It was positively reviewed in psychology journals. Riley suspected that Joseph Smith acquired his visions from epileptic seizures. He wrote that the "psychiatric definition of the epileptic fits the prophet to a dot." He associated Smith's dictation of the Book of Mormon with the phenomenon of automatic writing.

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