Armand L. Mauss

ARMAND L. MAUSS {[email protected]} is professor emeritus of so￾ciology and religious studies, Washington State University, now living in Irvine, California. Recently he has also taught courses in Mormon studies at Claremont Graduate University. A frequent contributor to Dialogue, he is author of three books on Mormons. His next book, Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport (a memoir) is forthcoming in 2012. “Rethinking Retrenchment” is a much fuller version of a paper he delivered on June 18, 2001, at the Springville (Utah) Art Museum at an all-day symposium in honor of Richard Bushman on his eightieth birthday. The program for that symposium can be found at http:// mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com/2011/06/mormonism-in-cultural￾context-symposium.html; and http://bycommonconsent.files.wordpress. com/2011/06/bushmansymposiumprogramflyer.pdf.