O. Kendall White Jr.

0. KENDALL WHITE JR. is the William P. Ames Jr. Professor in Sociology and Anthropology at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He is the author of Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy: A Crisis Theology (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1987), coeditor, with Daryl, of Religion in the Contemporary South: Diversity, Community, and Identity (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995), and author of numerous articles on Mormonism and in the sociology of religion.

The Transformation of Mormon Theology

Articles/Essays – Volume 5, No. 2

A Reply to Critics of the Mormon Neo-Orthodoxy Hypothesis

Articles/Essays – Volume 6, No. 1

The Church and the Community: Personal Reflections on Mormon Intellectual Life

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 2

Ecclesiastical Polity and the Challenge of Homosexuality: Two Cases of Divergence within the Mormon Tradition

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 4

This article compares the Community of Christ to the LDS church. In the early 2000s, the Community of Christ began to publicly reassess its policies on ordination and acceptance of homosexuality and opened the issue…