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Mormonism and the Possibility of a Materialist Apostasy

The notion of apostasy is central to the identity of the Mormon people.[1] One might even say it is the raison d’être of Mormonism. It is the thing that explains why there needed to be…

E. Marshall Brooks, Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints

Rebranding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chinese-Speaking Regions

The Things We Make True Michael William Palmer. Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs

As a kid growing up near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, I spent most of my time plotting my escape—from childhood itself, but more specifically from a Mormon childhood in Utah. I…

A Barometer for Mormon Social Science Jana Riess. The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church.

“Mormon”: A Journalist’s Dilemma

Sweater

What Would Jesus Do in Cyberspace? A Comparison of Online Authority Appeals on Two LDS Websites Targeting Believers and Non-Members

Review: The Empty Space between the Walls Joseph M. Spencer. The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record

Review: Not Alone Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death

Review: Envisioning Mormon Art Laura Allred Hurtado. Immediate Present

Review: Horror Becomes Banal Under Scrutiny but Loss is Lasting in The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner Jennifer Quist. The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner

Review: Helping Us Think and Be in the World Linda Sillitoe. Owning the Moon

Review: The Gift of Language Heidi Naylor. Revolver

Review: A Life Worth Living George B. Handley. Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion

Review: Traveling “the undiscovered country” Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death

“A Portion of God’s Light”: Mormonism and Religious Pluralism

Community of Christ: An American Progressive Christianity, with Mormonism as an Option

I thus argue that Mormonism exists wherever there is belief in the Book of Mormon, even though many adherents reject the term “Mormonism” to distance themselves from the LDS Church headquartered in Salt Lake City.

Mormon-Catholic Relations in Utah History: A Sketch

The Word of Wisdom in Contemporary American Mormonism: Perceptions and Practice

“Infected With Doubt”: An Empirical Overview of Belief and Non-Belief in Contemporary American Mormonism

Mormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy

Juanita Brooks and Fawn Brodie — Sisters in Mormon Dissent

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Translating Mormon Thought

Sources of Mormon History in Illinois, 1832-48, and A Bibliographic Note

The Reorganized Church in Illinois, 1852-82: Search for Identity

The Historians and Mormon Nauvoo

The Missouri & Illinois Mormons in Ante Bellum Fiction

The Missouri & Illinois Mormons in Ante Bellum Fiction

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The Current Restoration of Nauvoo, Illinois

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Some Thoughts on a Rational Approach to Mormonism

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A Survey of Current Theses and Dissertations

A Selected Bibliography of Recent Books on Mormons and Mormonism

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Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream

Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream

Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream

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Balance and Faith: The Latter-day Saints: A Contemporary History of the Church of Jesus Christ by William E. Berrett

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An Ambivalent Rejection: Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience

Launius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.

Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S. Johnson

Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.

The Women of Fundamentalism: Short Creek, 1953

Bradley describes how even after the Short Creek Raids happened, the women there still believed in plural marriage.

Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Ethnicity, Diversity, and Conflict

Mormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: A Reorganized Church Perspective

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Twentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah

Driggs shares the story of how in between the First and Second Manifestos, polygamy was still happening in secret.

In Their Own Behalf: The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise

Book of Mormon Stories That My Teachers Kept From Me

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On Spectral Evidence

Dissent in the Church: Toward a Workable Definition

A Response to Paul Toscano’s “A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power”

A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power

Liberal Spirituality: A Personal Odyssey

Dialogue Toward Forgiveness: A Supporting View

The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology

Women’s Place in the Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Toward Intellectual Anarchy: Encyclopedia of Mormonism

The Coyote Hunter

The “Moral” Atonement As a Mormon Interpretation

Spiritualism and Mormonism: Some Thoughts on the Similarities and Differences

The Devil Makers: Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism

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

The “New Social History” and the “New Mormon History”: Reflections on Recent Trends

My own analysis of the state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual imperialism that were nurtured during the…

Intellect and Faith: The Controversy Over Revisionist Mormon History

Personality and Motivation in Utah Historiography

Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report

Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.

Messages from the Manuals: Twelve Years Later

Familial, Socioeconomic, and Religious Behavior: A Comparison of LDS and Non-LDS Women

The Sweetness of Cherry Coke

I Must Speak Up

Mama

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“Seizing Sacred Space”: Women’s Engagement in Early Mormonism

Mormon Angels in America: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

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Guest Editor’s Introduction

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Prolegomena to Any Future Mormon Studies

What You Walk Away From

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Celebrating Utah’s Centennial: Charter for Statehood: The Story of Utah’s State Constitution by Jean Bickmore White

A Test Case for Heresy and Gender Discourse: The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy

Wandering Souls in a Familiar Valley: The Tabernacle Bar by Susan Palmer

Through a Glass Darkly: Mormons as Perceived by Critics’ Reviews of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America

“Those Amazing Mormons”: The Media’s Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority

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A History of Dialogue, Part One: The Early Years, 1965-1971

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Another Perspective: Mormonen—die Heiligen der letzten Zeit, [Mormons—Saints of the Latter Times], by David Trobish

An Excellent Survey of the Headlines, But Not of the Heart: Mormon America: The Power and the Promise

A Happy, Go-Ahead People: Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling

Henry William Bigler: Mormon Chronicler of Great Events: Henry William Bigler

Protocols of the (Other) Elders of Zion: The History of the Saints, 3d edition, by John C. Bennett, ed. Andrew F. Smith

The Life of an LDS Apostle: Working the Divine Miracle: The Life of Apostle Henry D. Moyle

Pluralism, Mormonism, and World Religion Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion

An Other Mormon History: Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 by Jorge Iber

Defending Magic: Explaining the Necessity of Ordinances

Lions, Brothers, and the Idea of an Indian Nation

Correlated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal

Hugh Nibley: Hugh Nibley: “”A Consecrated Life “” by Boyd Jay Petersen

A Landmark in Mormon Thought: Exploring Mormon Thought, Volume 1: The Attitudes of God, by Blake T. Ostler

Mormon Polygamy and the American Constitution: The Mormon Question

Mormonism, Death, Salvation, and Exaltation: The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory, by Douglas J. Davies

No Other Way?: Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity

Dissent Without Definition: Mormon Mavericks: Essays on Dissenters, edited by John Sillito and Susan Staker

Reaching toward Heaven, Rooted on Earth: Falling Toward Heaven, by John Bennion

Sinnamon Twist: The Marketing of “Sister B” by Linda Hoffman Kimball

“Gender Troubles” and Mormon Women’s Voices: Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts by Laura L. Bush

Murder, with a Side of Philosophy: The Angel Acronym by Paul M. Edwards

A Stark Contrast: Farewell to Eden: Coming to Terms with Mormonism and Science by Duwayne R. Anderson

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A Touching Remembrance: Bittersweet: A Candid Love Story by Helen Elizabeth Nebeker

Heartfelt Theater: Matters of the Heart by Thom Duncan

Safe Haven for a Time: The Mormon Colonies in Mexico by Thomas Cottam Romney

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Analyzing Spiritual Things from a Sociological Perspective: The Rise of Mormonism by Rodney Stark and Reid Neilson

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Becoming a “Messenger of Peace”: Jacob Hamblin in Tooele

The Long-Distance Mormon

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Mormonism in Daniel Walker Howe’s “What God Hath Wrought”

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As a student of history, I have to admit, however reluctantly, that Jesus didn’t wear pashmina ascots or Armani sunglasses—but neither did he wear white shirts, dark suits, and a bicycle helmet. Jesus wasn’t fabulous…

Future Prospects in the Comparison of Religions

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The Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon

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A Community of Abundance

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Ex-Mormon Narratives and Pastoral Apologetics

Early Mormon Priesthood Revelation: Text, Impact, and Evolution

Review: Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life

What Does Kashi Have to Do With Salt Lake?: Academic Comparisons, Asian Religions, and Mormonism

Roundtable: As Presently Constituted: Mormon Studies in the Field of Religion: Religious Studies as Comparative Religion

Knowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham, and Joseph Smith as Translator

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E. Marshall Brooks, Disenchanted Lives: Apostasy and Ex-Mormonism among the Latter-day Saints

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As a kid growing up near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, I spent most of my time plotting my escape—from childhood itself, but more specifically from a Mormon childhood in Utah. I…

A Barometer for Mormon Social Science Jana Riess. The Next Mormons: How Millennials Are Changing the LDS Church.

“Mormon”: A Journalist’s Dilemma

Sweater

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Review: The Empty Space between the Walls Joseph M. Spencer. The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record

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Review: Envisioning Mormon Art Laura Allred Hurtado. Immediate Present

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Community of Christ: An American Progressive Christianity, with Mormonism as an Option

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The Word of Wisdom in Contemporary American Mormonism: Perceptions and Practice

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Juanita Brooks and Fawn Brodie — Sisters in Mormon Dissent

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Translating Mormon Thought

Sources of Mormon History in Illinois, 1832-48, and A Bibliographic Note

The Reorganized Church in Illinois, 1852-82: Search for Identity

The Historians and Mormon Nauvoo

The Missouri & Illinois Mormons in Ante Bellum Fiction

The Missouri & Illinois Mormons in Ante Bellum Fiction

The Kingdom of God in Illinois: Politics in Utopia

The Current Restoration of Nauvoo, Illinois

Introduction

Are Mormons Christian?

Some Thoughts on a Rational Approach to Mormonism

A Survey of Current Theses and Dissertations

A Survey of Current Theses and Dissertations

A Selected Bibliography of Recent Books on Mormons and Mormonism

Historiography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective

Christ’s World Government: An End of Nationalism and War

Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream

Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream

Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream

The “Lectures on Faith”: A Case Study in Decanonization

Balance and Faith: The Latter-day Saints: A Contemporary History of the Church of Jesus Christ by William E. Berrett

Mormon Gravestones: A Folk Expression of Identity and Belief

Of Truth and Passion: Mormonism and Existential Thought

Materialism and the Mormon Faith

Honoring Leonard Arrington

“What Has Become of Our Fathers?” Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo

Chronicling the history  of baptizing for the dead during the Nauvoo Period, this article introduces the practice from the first baptizers to how it was altered after Joseph Smith’s death.

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Launius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.

Fundamentalist Attitudes Toward the Church: The Sermons of Leroy S. Johnson

Driggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.

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Bradley describes how even after the Short Creek Raids happened, the women there still believed in plural marriage.

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Book of Mormon Stories That My Teachers Kept From Me

WardAmerica

On Spectral Evidence

Dissent in the Church: Toward a Workable Definition

A Response to Paul Toscano’s “A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power”

A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power

Liberal Spirituality: A Personal Odyssey

Dialogue Toward Forgiveness: A Supporting View

The LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology

Women’s Place in the Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Mormonism

Toward Intellectual Anarchy: Encyclopedia of Mormonism

The Coyote Hunter

The “Moral” Atonement As a Mormon Interpretation

Spiritualism and Mormonism: Some Thoughts on the Similarities and Differences

The Devil Makers: Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism

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

The “New Social History” and the “New Mormon History”: Reflections on Recent Trends

My own analysis of the state of Mormon history suggests that the field, while other factors have also been at work, suffers from some of the exclusiveness and intellectual imperialism that were nurtured during the…

Intellect and Faith: The Controversy Over Revisionist Mormon History

Personality and Motivation in Utah Historiography

Nauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report

Smith discusses the importance of plural marriage in Nauvoo to church history. He shows that after Joseph Smith passed away, Nauvoo polygamy numbers rose.

Messages from the Manuals: Twelve Years Later

Familial, Socioeconomic, and Religious Behavior: A Comparison of LDS and Non-LDS Women

The Sweetness of Cherry Coke

I Must Speak Up

Mama

In Search of Women’s Language and Feminist Expression Among Nauvoo Wives in A Little Lower Than the Angels

“Seizing Sacred Space”: Women’s Engagement in Early Mormonism

Mormon Angels in America: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

For Mormons, the co-option of our most sacred story for the purposes of theater might at first seem blasphemous. In fact, Eugene England in his regular This People round-up of recent LDS-related books and plays…

The Divine Transmutation: The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 by John L. Brooke

A Reply

Ernest L. Wilkinson and the 1966 BYU Spy Ring: A Response to D. Michael Quinn

Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century

Mormonism in Modern Japan

Between Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand

Between Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand

Towards 2000: Mormonism in Australia

Reinventing Mormonism: Guatemala as Harbinger of the Future?

Mormonism in Latin America: Towards the Twenty-first Century

Ethnization and Accommodation

Feeding the Fleeing Flock

Science and Mormonism: Past, Present, Future

Will the church be able to retain the essence of its theology in the faceof challenges from science? Will the church’s discourse on scientific topicsbe marked by fundamentalism, isolationism, or progressivism? Will the church be…

Thinking About the Word of God in the Twenty-First Century

Membership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment

Membership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment

The Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020

The Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020

Guest Editor’s Introduction

Lavina Fielding Anderson and the Power of a Church in Exile

Prolegomena to Any Future Mormon Studies

What You Walk Away From

Researching Mormonism: General Conference as Artifactual Gold Mine

Celebrating Utah’s Centennial: Charter for Statehood: The Story of Utah’s State Constitution by Jean Bickmore White

A Test Case for Heresy and Gender Discourse: The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy

Wandering Souls in a Familiar Valley: The Tabernacle Bar by Susan Palmer

Through a Glass Darkly: Mormons as Perceived by Critics’ Reviews of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America

“Those Amazing Mormons”: The Media’s Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority

Coupe

Mormon Psychohistory: Psychological Insights into the Latter-day Saint Past, Present, and Future

A History of Dialogue, Part One: The Early Years, 1965-1971

Plain and Simple

Another Perspective: Mormonen—die Heiligen der letzten Zeit, [Mormons—Saints of the Latter Times], by David Trobish

An Excellent Survey of the Headlines, But Not of the Heart: Mormon America: The Power and the Promise

A Happy, Go-Ahead People: Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling

Henry William Bigler: Mormon Chronicler of Great Events: Henry William Bigler

Protocols of the (Other) Elders of Zion: The History of the Saints, 3d edition, by John C. Bennett, ed. Andrew F. Smith

The Life of an LDS Apostle: Working the Divine Miracle: The Life of Apostle Henry D. Moyle

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An Other Mormon History: Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 by Jorge Iber

Defending Magic: Explaining the Necessity of Ordinances

Lions, Brothers, and the Idea of an Indian Nation

Correlated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal

Hugh Nibley: Hugh Nibley: “”A Consecrated Life “” by Boyd Jay Petersen

A Landmark in Mormon Thought: Exploring Mormon Thought, Volume 1: The Attitudes of God, by Blake T. Ostler

Mormon Polygamy and the American Constitution: The Mormon Question

Mormonism, Death, Salvation, and Exaltation: The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory, by Douglas J. Davies

No Other Way?: Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity

Dissent Without Definition: Mormon Mavericks: Essays on Dissenters, edited by John Sillito and Susan Staker

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Sinnamon Twist: The Marketing of “Sister B” by Linda Hoffman Kimball

“Gender Troubles” and Mormon Women’s Voices: Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts by Laura L. Bush

Murder, with a Side of Philosophy: The Angel Acronym by Paul M. Edwards

A Stark Contrast: Farewell to Eden: Coming to Terms with Mormonism and Science by Duwayne R. Anderson

The Making of Grave Community Sin

The Maturing of the Oak: The Dynamics of Latter-day Saint Growth in Latin America

How Many Members Are There Really? Two Censuses and the Meaning of LDS Membership in Chile and Mexico

The Psalms

Keywords: Joseph Smith, Language Change, and Theological Innovation, 1829-44

Seeing Post-Zion Salt Lake City: Seeing Salt Lake City: The Legacy of the Shipler Photographers by Alan Barnett

Peer-Reviewed Genealogy: Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors by Val D. Rust

A Scholarly Tribute to Leonard Arrington: The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures, Special Collections and Archives – Utah State University Libraries

Possibilities, Problems and Pitfalls: Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century, Edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Lavinia Fielding Anderson

Patriarchy or Gender Equality? The Letter to the Ephesians on Submission, Headship, and Slavery

Without Purse or Scrip in Scotland

Eternal Progression in a Multiverse: An Explorative Mormon Cosmology

A Touching Remembrance: Bittersweet: A Candid Love Story by Helen Elizabeth Nebeker

Heartfelt Theater: Matters of the Heart by Thom Duncan

Safe Haven for a Time: The Mormon Colonies in Mexico by Thomas Cottam Romney

Dining with the Devil: A Long Spoon: Poems by R. A. Christmas

Analyzing Spiritual Things from a Sociological Perspective: The Rise of Mormonism by Rodney Stark and Reid Neilson

Big Wonderful, Little Masterpiece: Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming by Kevin Holdsworth

Getting at the Marrow: The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore bu William A. Wilson

A Plurality of Competing Selves: My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony by Wayne C. Booth

The Gospel in Communication: A Conversation with Communication Theorist John Durham Peters

A Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine

A Playwright with a Passion for Unvarnished Depictions: An Interview with Tom Rogers

Shadows on the Sun Dial: John E. Page and the Strangites

Can Deconstruction Save the Day? “”Faithful Scholarship”” and the Uses of Postmodernism

Fighting over “Mormon”

“Who’s in charge here?”: Utah Expedition Command Ambiguity

Becoming a “Messenger of Peace”: Jacob Hamblin in Tooele

The Long-Distance Mormon

Time Tabled by Mormon History

Between Silver Linings and Clouds

In The Nephite Courtroom

Mormonism in Daniel Walker Howe’s “What God Hath Wrought”

The Plan of Stagnation: A Review of Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance

The World According to Golden: A Review of Brady Udall, The Lonely Polygamist

Terryl Givens and the Shape of Mormon Studies: A Review of Terryl Givens, The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction

The Fabulous Jesus: A Heresy of Reconciliation

As a student of history, I have to admit, however reluctantly, that Jesus didn’t wear pashmina ascots or Armani sunglasses—but neither did he wear white shirts, dark suits, and a bicycle helmet. Jesus wasn’t fabulous…

Future Prospects in the Comparison of Religions

Charles Taylor: Catholic Mentor to the Mormon Scholar

Alma’s Experiment in Faith: A Broader Context

The Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon

A Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman

A Community of Abundance

Errand Out of the Wilderness Matthew Bowman. The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith

Review: Tom Mould. Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition

Review: A. Scott Howe and Richard L. Bushman, eds. Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision

Review: Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason, eds. New Perspectives in Mormon Studies: Creating and Crossing Boundaries

Ex-Mormon Narratives and Pastoral Apologetics

Early Mormon Priesthood Revelation: Text, Impact, and Evolution

Review: Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life

What Does Kashi Have to Do With Salt Lake?: Academic Comparisons, Asian Religions, and Mormonism

Roundtable: As Presently Constituted: Mormon Studies in the Field of Religion: Religious Studies as Comparative Religion

Knowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham, and Joseph Smith as Translator

The problem took another turn when Joseph Smith’s papyri, which had been missing and presumed lost for eighty to ninety years, resurfaced in 1967 and were examined and translated by Egyptologists.