Patrick Mason
PATRICK Q. MASON {[email protected]} holds the Leonard J. Arrington Endowed Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, where he is an associate professor of history and religious studies. He is the author or editor of several books, including most recently Restoration: God’s Call to the 21st-Century World (Faith Matters Publishing, 2020) and Mormonism and Violence: The Battles of Zion (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is a proud former board member and chair of the Dialogue Foundation.
Articles
The September Six and the Lost Generation of Mormon Studies
I was a high school senior in September 1993, when Lavina Fielding Anderson, Avraham Gileadi, Maxine Hanks, D. Michael Quinn, Paul Toscano, and Lynne Kanavel Whitesides were disfellowshipped or excommunicated from the Church of Jesus…
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Upon assuming the Leonard J. Arrington Endowed Chair of Mormon History and Culture at Utah State University, I have to acknowledge two special individuals upon whose broad shoulders I stand. The first is the chair’s…
Read moreThe Possibilities of Mormon Peacebuilding
In 1992, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, announced his Agenda for Peace. Within it, he encouraged member states to become more actively involved in “peacebuilding,” a vaguely defined term that seeks to…
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Read moreUVU Mormon Studies Conference | Mormon Blogs, Mormon Studies, and the Mormon Mind
In 1971, African-American artist Gil Scott-Heron released a powerful political anthem called “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.” Forty years later, in Tahrir Square and Occupy Wall Street, the revolution was not only televised, but also blogged, Facebooked, YouTubed, and tweeted. The phenomenon of Mormon-authored, Mormon-themed blogs—collectively known as the “bloggernacle”—may not properly constitute a revolution in Mormonism, but it has undoubtedly changed both the cultural landscape and the broader conversation both within and about Mormonism.
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