
Armand L. Mauss
ARMAND L. MAUSS {[email protected]} is professor emeritus of sociology 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-culturalcontext-symposium.html; and http://bycommonconsent.files.wordpress. com/2011/06/bushmansymposiumprogramflyer.pdf.
Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights
Articles/Essays – Volume 2, No. 4
Moderation in All Things: Political and Social Outlooks of Modern Urban Mormons
Articles/Essays – Volume 7, No. 1
Saints, Cities, and Secularism: Religious Attitudes and Behavior of Modern Urban Mormons
Articles/Essays – Volume 7, No. 2
Shall the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison
Articles/Essays – Volume 10, No. 2
The Fading of the Pharaoh’s Curse: The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban Against Blacks
Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 3
The Unfettered Faithful: An Analysis of the Dialogue Subscribers Survey
Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 1
Culture, Charisma, and Change: Reflections on Mormon Temple Worship
Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 4
Assimilation and Ambivalence: The Mormon Reaction to Americanization
Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 1
The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation and Identity: Trends and Developments Since Midcentury
Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 1
Welfare as Warfare: The Mormons’ War on Poverty: A History of LDS Welfare, 1830-1990 by Garth L. Mangum and Bruce D. Blumell
Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 1
Mormonism’s Worldwide Aspirations and its Changing Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 3
Maturing and Enduring: Dialogue and Its Readers after Forty Years
Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 4
Seeking a “Second Harvest”: Controlling the Costs of LDS Membership in Europe
Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 4
Rethinking Retrenchment: Course Corrections in the Ongoing Quest for Respectability
Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 4