Subject Guides: REL 225 Foundations of the Restoration: Additional Resources

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Background on a Church Doctrine or Event

Use these additional background sources to learn more about a Church doctrine or event.

Saints: A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Online page for the four-volume series on the history of the Church. Includes topics, biographies, and places, and events.
Encyclopedia of Mormonism Online The Wiki Version of Macmillan’s 1992 Encyclopedia of Mormonism. Use this for backgound information and bibliographies on topics, events, and people in Mormonism. Contains additions and updates by BYU Studies.
Sources Behind The Doctrine and Covenants A Joseph Smith Papers Online resource that displays the documents, source history, and background of each section of the Doctrine and Covenants.
VIDEO: Using the Sources Behind the Doctrine & Covenants Use this short video to learn how to find digitized original documents from the D&C through the Joseph Smith Papers Online.
Saints Index of D&C Sections An index of different sections to the Doctrine and Covenants as they appear in "Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

Find Speeches by a Church Leader about a Doctrine

Use this additional database to find a sermon about a scripture in the Bible or other Latter-day Saint sacred texts.

Scripture Citation Index This index links from scriptures to the general conference talks that cite those scriptures in LDS General Conference between 1942 and the present. You can sort the citation index by scripture (the default), by speaker, or by date of citation.

Find Scholarship on a Church Doctrine, Event, or Historical Figure

Use these databases to locate research about a doctrine, event, or person in Church history.

Studies in Mormon History This free online database includes citations to articles, books, and dissertations dealing with the history, culture, and doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Many entries have links to the full text of an article or dissertation.
VIDEO: Using the Studies in Mormon History Database Use this short video to learn how to find scholarship on a Church history topic or doctrine.
Joseph Smith Papers Online: People Brief biographical sketches for selected persons mentioned in Joseph Smith’s papers. Names listed in this directory include church leaders and members, Smith family members, people Joseph Smith encountered in his travels, parties involved in legal and business matters, and other acquaintances.
BYU Studies Quarterly In this quarterly journal, you will find articles from experts in a variety of disciplines related to the Church, its doctrine, history, and culture.

Find Archival Materials by or about a Church Historical Figure

Use these links to search journals, photographs, and correspondence by or about an important figure in Church history. You can also search by an event or geographic location.

BYU Special Collections Finding Aids Search the finding aids of several thousand collections in the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at BYU.
Church History Library Archives This searches the LDS Church History Library archival collections of diaries, correspondence, photographs, and other personal papers.
Foundations of the Restoration Sources A list of materials in the BYU library archives related to the various units of REL 225, Foundations of the Restoration. Search by an individuals name (e.g., "Emma"), by an event (e.g., "First Vision"), or by a location (e.g., "Kirtland").

REL 225 Foundations of the Restoration: Additional Resources

Philosophy and Church History/Doctrine Librarian

Background on a Church Doctrine or Event

Find Speeches by a Church Leader about a Doctrine

Find Scholarship on a Church Doctrine, Event, or Historical Figure

Find Archival Materials by or about a Church Historical Figure

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