[…] this period. Samuel Morris Brown. In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xii + 392 pp., notes, index. ISBN 978–0–19–979357–0.
[…] Wholesome provides a wide range of ways to personally engage with history. Brock Cheney. Plain but Wholesome: Foodways of the Mormon Pioneers. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, 2012. Paper: $19.95. ISBN: 978–1607812081.
[…] central symbol of Christianity. Michael G. Reed. Banishing the Cross: The Emergence of a Mormon Taboo. Independence, Mo.: John Whitmer Books, 2012. 171 pp. Appendix (“Early Christians and the Cross”), index. Paper: $19.95. ISBN: 978–1934901359.
[…] useful attempt. A. Scott Howe and Richard L. Bushman, eds. Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision. Draper, Utah: Greg Kofford Books, 2012. 226 pp. Introduction by Terryl L. Givens. Paperback: $24.95. ISBN: 978–1–58958–187–6.
[…] J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 340 pp. Hardcover: $32.50. ISBN: 978–0–8078–3572–2.
[…] community of boundary-spanning Mormon scholars. Armand L. Mauss. Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2012. 280 pp. Hardcover: $23.76. ISBN: 978–1– 60781-204-3.
[…] community. Patrick Q. Mason, J. David Pulsipher, and Richard L. Bushman, eds. War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives. Draper, Utah: Greg Kofford Books, 2012. xx, 290 pp. Includes index. Paper: $29.95. ISBN: 978–1–58958–099–2.
[…] BBC Culture Show’s Best 12 New Novelists of 2011. Reviews of her second novel, Cold Light ( 2012), call it “a hauntingly beautiful and shocking psycho logical thriller,” “bleak . . . gritty . […]
[…] spectacles. Robert S. McPherson, Jim Dandy, and Sarah E. Burak. Navajo Tradition, Mormon Life: The Autobiography and Teachings of Jim Dandy. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2012. 292 pp. Paper: $27.95. ISBN: 978–1–60781–194–7.
[…] to muddy effect. In contrast to his previous book, Rube Goldberg Machines: Essays in Mormon Theology ( 2012), this book makes no explicit acknowledgement of Mormonism. This however has not kept him from announcing […]