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Dialogue Book Report #5: Two Andrews on Mormon studies, Summer 2020

August 22, 2020

Andrew Hall and Andrew Hamilton discuss recent and upcoming events and books in Mormon studies and Mormon literature, including books reviewed in the Summer 2020 issue of Dialogue.
First they discuss the recent MHA and AML 2019 awards. 
Books discussed:
Greg Prince. Gay Rights and the Mormon Church 
Brenda R. Weber Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism
Lisa Van Orman Hadley. Irreversible Things
D.J. Butler. Witchy Eye
D.J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey. The Cunning Man
Benjamin E. Park. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
Taylor G. Petrey. Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism 
Joanna Brooks. Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence
Christopher James Blythe. Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
Joseph Geisner, editor. Writing Mormon History: Historians and Their Books
William L. Davis. Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
Michael Hubbard MacKay, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Brian Hauglid, editors. Producing Ancient Scripture: Joseph Smith’s Translation Projects in the Development of Mormon Christianity
Lavina Fielding Anderson. Mercy without End: Toward a More Inclusive Church
Michael Hubbard McKay. Prophetic Authority: Democratic Hierarchy and the Mormon Priesthood
Darren Perry. The Bear River Massacre: A Shoshone History
Will Bagley. The Whites Want Every Thing: Indian-Mormon Relations, 1847–1877 (Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier Series, Vol. 16) 
Edward Leo Lyman. Finally Statehood! Utah’s Struggles, 1849-1896
Matthew L. Harris. Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right
Ronald O. Barney. Joseph Smith: History, Methods, and Memory
Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst, editors. The LDS Gospel Topics Series: A Scholarly Engagement
Eric James Stone. The Humans in the Walls 
Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner. The Contortionists
Twila Newey. Sylvia