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.

Mormonism and the Negro: Faith, Folklore and Civil Rights

Articles/Essays – Volume 2, No. 4

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Moderation in All Things: Political and Social Outlooks of Modern Urban Mormons

Articles/Essays – Volume 7, No. 1

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Saints, Cities, and Secularism: Religious Attitudes and Behavior of Modern Urban Mormons

Articles/Essays – Volume 7, No. 2

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Shall the Youth of Zion Falter? Mormon Youth and Sex: A Two-City Comparison

Articles/Essays – Volume 10, No. 2

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The Fading of the Pharaoh’s Curse: The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban Against Blacks

Articles/Essays – Volume 14, No. 3

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The Unfettered Faithful: An Analysis of the Dialogue Subscribers Survey

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 1

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Culture, Charisma, and Change: Reflections on Mormon Temple Worship

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 4

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Assimilation and Ambivalence: The Mormon Reaction to Americanization

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 1

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The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation and Identity: Trends and Developments Since Midcentury

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 1

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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

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Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 1

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Guest Editor’s Introduction

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 1

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On “Defense of Marriage” A Reply to Quinn

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 3

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Mormonism’s Worldwide Aspirations and its Changing Conceptions of Race and Lineage

Articles/Essays – Volume 34, No. 3

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Maturing and Enduring: Dialogue and Its Readers after Forty Years

Articles/Essays – Volume 39, No. 4

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Sonnet to Japanese Spring

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 3

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Seeking a “Second Harvest”: Controlling the Costs of LDS Membership in Europe

Articles/Essays – Volume 41, No. 4

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Rethinking Retrenchment: Course Corrections in the Ongoing Quest for Respectability

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 4

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