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'''[[Biography:Joseph Smith|Joseph Smith]]''' &ndash; central figure of [[Religion:Mormonism|Mormonism]], whom the teachings of most List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement hold to be the founding [[Religion:Prophet|Prophet]]. Smith is also called the Prophet of the Restoration.

== Essence of Joseph Smith ==
* [[Religion:Religion|Religion]]
*** [[Philosophy:Monotheism|Monotheism]] &ndash; belief that only one God exists
**** Abrahamic Religions &ndash; religions [[Religion:Book of Abraham|Abraham is a direct prophet]]
***** [[Religion:Christianity|Christianity]] &ndash; monotheistic religion [[Religion:First Vision|Jesus is the founder]] 
****** latter day saints &ndash; the teachings of Jesus needed to be restored because all existing churches fell into a [[Religion:Great Apostasy|Great Apostasy]].
******* [[Biography:Joseph Smith|Joseph Smith]] is the [[Religion:Prophet|Prophet]] who restored many lost teachings of Jesus through Revelations.

==Life of Joseph Smith==

===Early life===
* Early life of Joseph Smith
** Place of birth Sharon, Vermont
** Parents:  Lucy Mack Smith, Joseph Smith, Sr.
** Palmyra
** Smith Family Farm
** [[Religion:Second Great Awakening|Second Great Awakening]]
** Burned-over district
** Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints)
** [[Religion:First Vision|First Vision]]
** Angel Moroni
** Golden Plates
** [[Unsolved:Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints)|Urim and Thummim (Latter Day Saints)]]
** Hill Cumorah
** Alvin Smith (brother of Joseph Smith)
** Seer stones (Latter Day Saints)
** Joseph Smith and the criminal justice system
** Emma Smith - first wife
** [[Social:Reformed Egyptian|reformed Egyptian]]

===1827 to 1830===
* Life of Joseph Smith from 1827 to 1830
** Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints)
** Anthon transcript
** Charles Anthon
** Lost 116 pages
** Oliver Cowdery
** Book of Mosiah
** Fayette, New York
** Peter Whitmer
** David Whitmer
** Three Witnesses
** Eight Witnesses
** [[Religion:Book of Mormon|Book of Mormon]]
** Church of Christ
** [[Religion:Confirmation (Latter Day Saints)|Confirmation (Latter Day Saints)]]
** Melchizedek priesthood
** Hiram Page
** [[Place:New Jerusalem|New Jerusalem]]
** Sidney Rigdon
** Stake (Latter Day Saints)

===1831 to 1837===
* Life of Joseph Smith from 1831 to 1837
** [[Religion:United Order|United Order]]
** [[Religion:Elder (Latter Day Saints)|Elder (Latter Day Saints)]]
** General conference (Latter Day Saints)
** Melchizedek priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
** [[Religion:Zion (Latter Day Saints)|Zion (Latter Day Saints)]]
** Zion's Camp
** [[Religion:First Presidency|First Presidency]]
** Apostle (Latter Day Saints)
** Seventy (Latter Day Saints)
** Presiding high council
** Kirtland Temple
** Fanny Alger
** Kirtland Safety Society

===1838 to 1839===
* Life of Joseph Smith from 1838 to 1839
** 1838 Mormon War
** Anti-Mormonism
** Sampson Avard
** Danites
** Salt Sermon
** Rigdon's July 4th oration
** Thomas B. Marsh
** Orson Hyde
** Battle of Crooked River
** Lilburn Boggs
** Missouri Executive Order 44
** Haun's Mill massacre
** Liberty Jail
** Brigham Young

===1839 to 1844===
* Life of Joseph Smith from 1839 to 1844
** Nauvoo Legion
** John C. Bennett
** Nauvoo, Illinois
** Assistant President of the Church
** plural marriage
** baptism for the dead
** Nauvoo Temple
** [[Religion:Endowment (Mormonism)|Endowment (Mormonism)]] 
** Relief Society
** Porter Rockwell
** Thomas Ford
** Anointed Quorum

===Death===
* Death of Joseph Smith
** William Law
** Nauvoo House
** True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
** Nauvoo Expositor
** King Follett discourse
** Thomas C. Sharp
** Warsaw Signal
** Hyrum Smith
** John Taylor
** Willard Richards
** John P. Greene
** Dan Jones
** John S. Fullmer
** Carthage Jail
** Smith Family Cemetery

==Legacy==

===People===
*Mormons
*ex-Mormons

===Memorials===
*Joseph Smith Memorial Building
*Joseph Smith Building
*Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial

===Churches===
*Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)
*List of sects in the Latter Day Saint movement
** patrilineal succession
** Samuel H. Smith (Latter Day Saints)
** William Smith (Latter Day Saints)
** Joseph Smith III
** David Hyrum Smith
*The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
**Brigham Young
**Utah Territory
*Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
**Rigdonite
**Sidney Rigdon
*Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite)
**Letter of Appointment
**James J. Strang
*Community of Christ
**Joseph Smith III

==Teachings==
*Teachings of Joseph Smith

===Salvation===
[[File:Mormon plan of Salvation diagram (English) (2).jpg|thumb|Plan of Salvation]]
* Mormon cosmology
* Godhead (Latter Day Saints)
* Ordinance (Latter Day Saints)
* [[Unsolved:Degrees of glory|degree of glory]]

===Temple===
* Freemasonry and the Latter Day Saint movement
* Endowment (Latter Day Saints)
* [[Religion:Endowment (Mormonism)|Endowment (Mormonism)]]
* sealing
* [[Social:Celestial marriage|Celestial marriage]]
* [[Unsolved:Exaltation (Mormonism)|Exaltation (Mormonism)]]

===Church organization===
* Church of Christ
* Restoration (Latter Day Saints)
* [[Religion:Great Apostasy|Great Apostasy]]
* Council of Fifty
* [[Religion:Articles of Faith (Latter Day Saints)|Article of Faith]]

===Priesthood===
* Priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
* Melchizedek priesthood (Latter Day Saints)
* Aaronic priesthood (LDS Church)
* Patriarchal priesthood

===Polygamy===
* [[Religion:Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy|Origin of Latter Day Saint polygamy]]
* Mormonism and polygamy
* Louisa Beaman

===Prophecies===
*[[Unsolved:List of prophecies of Joseph Smith|List of prophecies of Joseph Smith]]

==Revealed Scriptures==
[[File:Book of Mormon Lands and Sites2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Proposed map of the lands and sites of the Book of Mormon ]]
*[[Religion:Book of Mormon|Book of Mormon]]
*[[Religion:Doctrine and Covenants|Doctrine and Covenants]]
*Pearl of Great Price
** [[Religion:Book of Moses|Book of Moses]]
** [[Religion:Book of Abraham|Book of Abraham]]
** Joseph Smith–Matthew
** Joseph Smith–History
** [[Religion:Articles of Faith (Latter Day Saints)|Articles of Faith]]
*Inspired Version of the Bible

===Other texts===
*[[Religion:Lectures on Faith|Lectures on Faith]]
*King Follett discourse

==Parents and siblings==
*Smith family (Latter Day Saints)
*Joseph Smith, Sr.
*Lucy Mack Smith
*Alvin Smith
*Hyrum Smith
*Samuel H. Smith
*William Smith
*Katharine Smith Salisbury
*Don Carlos Smith
*List of descendants of Joseph Smith, Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith

== Related Church Presidents ==
*Community of Christ
**Joseph Smith III
**Frederick M. Smith
**Israel A. Smith
**W. Wallace Smith
**Wallace B. Smith
*Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
**Frederick Niels Larsen

==Family chart==

==Family and descendants==
*List of the wives of Joseph Smith
*Children of Joseph Smith
*Presiding Patriarch

== Latter Day Saints in popular culture ==
;Main article
:Latter Day Saints in popular culture
;Depictions
:The 19th Wife
:A Victim of the Mormons
:Advise and Consent
:All About Mormons
:America (short story)
:Angels in America (miniseries)
:Around the World in Eighty Days
:Bad Bascomb (film)
:Bash: Latter-Day Plays
:Be Happy Be Mormon
:Ben Banks (film)
:The Big Gundown
:Big Love
:The Book of Mormon (musical)
:The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording
:Burying the Past
:Cannibal! The Musical
:The Cremaster Cycle
:Darger family
:Doom novels
:The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
:Escape (Jessop and Palmer book)
:The Folk of the Fringe
:The Fringe (short story)
:Georgia Rule
:The Girl from Utah
:The Great Brain
:Latter Days
:Lost Boys (novel)
:Married to a Mormon
:Messenger of Death
:Millions (2004 film)
:The Monkey Wrench Gang
:More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter
:The Mormons (miniseries)
:Mountain Meadows massacre and the media
:New York Doll
:Orgazmo
:The Other Side of Heaven
:Pageant Wagon (short story)
:Paint Your Wagon (film)
:Paint Your Wagon (musical)
:The Parafaith War
:Polygamy, USA
:Probably (South Park)
:The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians
:Riders of the Purple Sage
:Roughing It
:Salvage (short story)
:Secrets of a Gay Mormon Felon
:September Dawn
:Settling Accounts: Return Engagement
:Settling Accounts: The Grapple
:Sister Wives
:Stolen Innocence
:The Strangers (2008 film)
:A Study in Scarlet
:They Call Me Trinity
:Trapped by the Mormons
:Under the Banner of Heaven
:Wagon Master
:West (short story)
;Documentaries
:Get the Fire
:Meet the Mormons
:The Mountain Meadows Massacre (film)
:Presidents and Prophets

==Important places==
*Joseph Smith Birthplace Memorial
*Palmyra (town), New York
*Smith Family Farm
*Sacred Grove (Latter Day Saints)
*Cumorah
*Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site
*Peter Whitmer log home
*Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site
*John Johnson Farm
*[[Religion:Zion (Latter Day Saints)|Zion (Latter Day Saints)]]
*Kirtland, Ohio
*Historic Kirtland Village
*Kirtland Temple
*Zion's Camp
*Jackson County, Missouri
*Independence, Missouri
*Far West, Missouri
*Adam-ondi-Ahman
*1838 Mormon War
*Liberty Jail
*Nauvoo, Illinois
*History of Nauvoo, Illinois
*Nauvoo Historic District
*Joseph Smith Mansion House
*Nauvoo House
*Red Brick Store
*Nauvoo Temple
*Carthage Jail
*Smith Family Cemetery

==Works about him==
*Works relating to Joseph Smith
*History of the Church (Joseph Smith)
*History of Joseph Smith by His Mother
*Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith (book)
*No Man Knows My History
*Joseph Smith: The Making of a Prophet
*An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
*Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
*The Joseph Smith Papers

==See also==
*Index of articles related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
*Outline of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
*[[Biology:Outline of the Book of Mormon|Outline of the Book of Mormon]]
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==External links==
* {{Gutenberg author |id=12| name=Joseph Smith, Jr.}}
* {{Internet Archive author |search=( ("Joseph Smith" OR "Smith, Joseph") AND (1805-1844)) |dname=Joseph Smith}}
* {{Librivox author |id=1474 |title=Joseph Smith}}
* [http://www.josephsmith.net Official LDS page about Joseph Smith]
* [http://www.josephsmithpapers.org/ JosephSmithPapers.org]—An LDS Church project compiling [[Primary source|primary]] documents relating to Joseph Smith


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