Editing Mormon (word) (section)

==Origin of the term==
{{See also|Book of Mormon}}
The term ''Mormon'' is taken from the title of the Book of Mormon, a text adherents consider sacred and believe was translated from [[golden plates]] whose location was revealed by [[Angel Moroni|an angel]] to Joseph Smith and which was published in 1830. According to the text of the Book of Mormon, the word Mormon stems from the [[Waters of Mormon|Land of Mormon]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://webdevilaz.com/religion/where-do-mormons-get-their-name-from |title=Where Do Mormons Get Their Name From? |publisher=WebDevilAZ |date=March 25, 2009 |access-date=October 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501162104/http://webdevilaz.com/religion/where-do-mormons-get-their-name-from |archive-date=May 1, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{BSN|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]). It's a blog.|date=March 2023}} where the prophet [[Alma (son of Alma)|Alma]] preached the gospel and baptized converts. Mormon—who was named after the land—was a 4th-century prophet–historian who compiled and abridged many records of his ancestors into the Book of Mormon.<ref>{{Sourcetext|source=Book of Mormon|version=1981|book=3 Nephi|chapter=5|verse=12}}</ref> The book is believed by Latter Day Saints to be a literal record of God's dealings with [[pre-Columbian]] civilizations in the [[Americas]] from approximately 2600 BC through AD 420,<ref>[[Daniel H. Ludlow]], ''A Companion to Your Study of the Book of Mormon'' p. 117, quoted in [[Church Educational System]] (1996, rev. ed.). [http://www.ldsces.org/inst_manuals/bm-in-sm1996/manualindex.asp ''Book of Mormon Student Manual''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614023648/https://www.ldsces.org/inst_manuals/bm-in-sm1996/manualindex.asp |date=2019-06-14 }} (Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), ch. 6.</ref> written by [[prophet]]s and followers of [[Jesus Christ]]. The book records the teachings of Jesus Christ to the people in the Americas as well as Christ's personal ministry among the people of [[Nephi, son of Lehi|Nephi]] after his [[resurrection]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11?lang=eng |title=3 Nephi, chapters 11-26 |access-date=2019-07-16 |archive-date=2019-07-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715040318/https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11?lang=eng |url-status=live }}</ref> The LDS Church teaches that the Book of Mormon is another witness of Jesus Christ, "holy [[Religious text|scripture]] comparable to the [[Bible]]".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/introduction/1?lang=eng |title=Introduction, Book of Mormon |access-date=2019-07-16 |archive-date=2019-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912185646/https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bofm/introduction/1?lang=eng |url-status=live }}</ref>

The terms ''Mormonism''<ref>{{cite news |title=Mormonism |url=http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/OH/paintel2.htm#011831 |access-date=31 August 2019 |issue=2 |publisher=Painesville Telegraph |date=18 January 1831 |archive-date=29 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929001117/http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/OH/paintel2.htm#011831 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{BSN|reason=Appears to be Original Research|date=March 2023}}and ''Mormonite''<ref>{{cite news |title=Letter to the Editor |url=http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/wayn1830.htm#010631 |access-date=31 August 2019 |issue=2 |publisher=The Reflector |date=1 February 1831 |archive-date=7 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107181544/http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/NY/wayn1830.htm#010631 |url-status=live }}</ref> were originally descriptive terms invented in 1831 by newspaper editors or contributors in Ohio and New York to describe the growing movement of "proselytes of the Golden Bible".<ref>{{cite news |title=Untitled. Baltim. Patriot. Merc. Advert. 37 (March 10, 1831). Baltimore Maryland. |url=http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/ma/midatla0.htm |access-date=31 August 2019 |issue=37 |publisher=Baltimore Patriot and Mercantile Advertiser |date=10 March 1831 |archive-date=31 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190831191517/http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/MA/midatla0.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Historian [[Ardis Parshall]] quotes an 1831 news item, appearing within the first year of the LDS Church's founding, as reading, "In the sixth number of your paper I saw a notice of a sect of people called Mormonites; and thinking that a fuller history of their founder, Joseph Smith, Jr., might be interesting to your community ... I will take the trouble to make a few remarks on the character of that infamous imposter."<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.timesandseasons.org/harchive/2007/04/the-mormons-on-pbs/|title = "The Mormons" on PBS|date = 2007-04-29|access-date = 2019-10-06|archive-date = 2019-10-06|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191006071107/https://www.timesandseasons.org/harchive/2007/04/the-mormons-on-pbs/|url-status = live}}</ref> The term ''Mormon'' developed as a shortened version of ''Mormonite'' a year or two later. By the 1840s the term was adopted by Mormon leaders to refer to themselves, though leaders occasionally used the term as early as 1833.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whitney |first1=Newel K. |title=Personal letter to Jesse Smith, East Stockholm |date=2 March 1833}}</ref>{{BSN|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]). Appears to be original research.|date=March 2023}} The term also started to be used [[pejorative]]ly sometime before 1844<ref>{{cite news |title=From the Illinois State Register |url=http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor/1844/11-13-1844.pdf |access-date=31 August 2019 |issue=2 |publisher=The Pioneer |date=13 November 1844 |archive-date=14 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414001942/http://boap.org/LDS/Nauvoo-Neighbor/1844/11-13-1844.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>{{BSN|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]). Appears to be original research|date=March 2023}} with the coinage of the term [[Jack Mormon]] to describe non-Mormons sympathetic to the movement. Since that time the term ''Mormon'' has generally lost its pejorative status, as it became [[Reappropriation|reappropriated]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jan|first=Shipps|date=2001|title=Signifying Sainthood, 1830-2001|journal=Arrington Annual Lecture|url=https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/arrington_lecture/6/|language=en|access-date=2018-02-02|archive-date=2018-02-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203064100/https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/arrington_lecture/6/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to LDS Church historian Matthew Bowman, and by the end of the 1800s it was broadly used.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Julia |date=2018-08-18 |title=Stop Saying 'Mormon,' Church Leader Says. But Is the Real Name Too Long? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/us/mormon-latter-day-saints-name.html |access-date=2023-03-19 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=2020-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505165938/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/us/mormon-latter-day-saints-name.html |url-status=live }}</ref>