[If this argument makes sense, or perhaps especially if it doesn???t, readers might profitably turn to Samuel Brown, ???The Early Mormon Chain of Belonging,??? Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 44, no 1 (Spring 2011): 1-52, or to a summary of the same ideas in Samuel Morris Brown, In Heaven as It Is On Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death (Oxford University Press, 2012),