Philip L. Barlow

PHILIP L. BARLOW {[email protected]}, Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture, joined the faculty at Utah State University in 2007. He earned a BA from Weber State College and an MTS and PhD (1988, with an emphasis on religion and Ameri￾can culture and on the history of Christianity) from Harvard Uni￾versity. He spent two years as a Mellon Fellow at the University of Rochester after which he became professor of theological studies at Hanover College in Indiana. While teaching at Hanover Col￾lege, Barlow was the recipient of Hanover’s Arthur and Ilene Baynham Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1995 and 2001. In addition to articles, essays, and reviews, Barlow has published Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991); the New His￾torical Atlas of Religion in America (New York: Oxford, 2000, co-authored with Edwin Scott Gaustad); and, as co-editor with Mark Silk, Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America’s Com￾mon Denominator? (Lanham, Md.: AltaMira Press, 2004). He is past president of the Mormon History Association.

Articles

Why the King James Version?: From the Common to the Official Bible of Mormonism

The excellence of the King James Version of the Bible does not need fresh documentation. No competent modern reader would question its literary excellence or its historical stature. Yet compared to several newer translations, the…

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Letters to the Editor

D. Jeff Burton, Tolerance for “Cultural Mormons”
Gerry L. Ensley, Joseph, Peepstones, and Pirates
Dan Vogel, Serving Two Masters
Gary James Bergera, Civility, Compassion, Honesty
Richard L. Bushman, Fair-Minded People
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Jana Riess, and Valeen Tippetts Avery, An Excess of Zeal
Ralf Gruenke, Room for Reason and Study
Doug Ward, Respecting Opposite Opinions

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Roundtable on Massacre at Mountain Meadows

The publication of Massacre at Mountain Meadows (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) by Glen M. Leonard, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Ronald W. Walker, a history of Mormonism’s darkest hour, is itself a history-making event. A scholarly discussion of their book and its significance in Mormon and Western studies was held at the Salt Lake Public Library on September 5, 2008, sponsored by the Charles Redd Center for Western History at Brigham Young University, the Mormon History Association, the Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah, the Tanner Center for Non-Violent Human Rights also at the University of Utah, and the Salt Lake City Public Library. 

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“Questions at the Veil”

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Podcasts

Dialogue Lectures #13 w/ Philip Barlow

Dr. Philip Barlow exclaims “The Joseph Smith in our heads is too small!” in the 13th podcast recorded at the Miller-Eccles Group in February. Read more