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Mormonism and the Possibility of a Materialist Apostasy
Zachary GublerThe 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
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Susan Meredith HinckleyAs 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.
Ryan BellWhat Would Jesus Do in Cyberspace? A Comparison of Online Authority Appeals on Two LDS Websites Targeting Believers and Non-Members
David W. ScottMormonism and the Possibility of a Materialist Apostasy
Zachary GublerThe 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
Jana RiessRebranding the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Chinese-Speaking Regions
Chiung Hwang ChenThe Things We Make True Michael William Palmer. Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs
Susan Meredith HinckleyAs 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.
Ryan Bell“Mormon”: A Journalist’s Dilemma
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Theric JepsonWhat Would Jesus Do in Cyberspace? A Comparison of Online Authority Appeals on Two LDS Websites Targeting Believers and Non-Members
David W. ScottReview: The Empty Space between the Walls Joseph M. Spencer. The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record
Mark D. ThomasReview: Not Alone Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Cristina RosettiReview: Envisioning Mormon Art Laura Allred Hurtado. Immediate Present
Sarah C. ReedReview: Horror Becomes Banal Under Scrutiny but Loss is Lasting in The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner Jennifer Quist. The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner
Rachel HelpsReview: Helping Us Think and Be in the World Linda Sillitoe. Owning the Moon
Lisa Orme BickmoreReview: The Gift of Language Heidi Naylor. Revolver
Michael Andrew EllisReview: A Life Worth Living George B. Handley. Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion
Zach HutchinsReview: Traveling “the undiscovered country” Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Susan Elizabeth Howe“A Portion of God’s Light”: Mormonism and Religious Pluralism
Brian D. BirchCommunity of Christ: An American Progressive Christianity, with Mormonism as an Option
Chrystal VanelI 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
Gary ToppingThe Word of Wisdom in Contemporary American Mormonism: Perceptions and Practice
Jana Riess“Infected With Doubt”: An Empirical Overview of Belief and Non-Belief in Contemporary American Mormonism
Benjamin R. KnollMormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy
Dennis R. PotterJuanita Brooks and Fawn Brodie — Sisters in Mormon Dissent
Newell G. BringhurstAnxiously Engaged: Amy Brown Lyman and Relief Society Charity Work, 1917-45
David HallTranslating Mormon Thought
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John C. AbbottThe Reorganized Church in Illinois, 1852-82: Search for Identity
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Jon HauptThe Missouri & Illinois Mormons in Ante Bellum Fiction
Leonard J. ArringtonThe Kingdom of God in Illinois: Politics in Utopia
Robert Bruce FlandersThe Current Restoration of Nauvoo, Illinois
T. Edgar LyonIntroduction
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Stephen W. StathisA Selected Bibliography of Recent Books on Mormons and Mormonism
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John D. NielsonReligious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream
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Allen D. RobertsBalance and Faith: The Latter-day Saints: A Contemporary History of the Church of Jesus Christ by William E. Berrett
Kenneth W. GodfreyMormon Gravestones: A Folk Expression of Identity and Belief
Carol EdisonOf Truth and Passion: Mormonism and Existential Thought
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Stanford Cazier“What Has Become of Our Fathers?” Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo
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An Ambivalent Rejection: Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
Roger D. LauniusLaunius 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
Ken DriggsDriggs 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
Martha S. BradleyBradley 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
Helen PapanikolasMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: A Reorganized Church Perspective
Richard P. HowardMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: An Australian Viewpoint
Marjorie NewtonMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Mormonism and the Challenge of the Mainline
Marie CornwallMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Viewing Mormonism as Mainline
Mario S. De PillisTwentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah
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In Their Own Behalf: The Politicization of Mormon Women and the 1870 Franchise
Lola Van WagenenBook of Mormon Stories That My Teachers Kept From Me
Neal ChandlerWardAmerica
David R. TrottierOn Spectral Evidence
Eugene EnglandDissent in the Church: Toward a Workable Definition
James E. ChapmanA Response to Paul Toscano’s “A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power”
Elbert Eugene PeckA Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power
Paul James ToscanoLiberal Spirituality: A Personal Odyssey
L. Jackson NewellDialogue Toward Forgiveness: A Supporting View
Richard D. PollThe LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology
Lavina Fielding AndersonWomen’s Place in the Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Lavina Fielding AndersonToward Intellectual Anarchy: Encyclopedia of Mormonism
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Tracie Lamb-KwonThe “Moral” Atonement As a Mormon Interpretation
Lorin K. HansenSpiritualism and Mormonism: Some Thoughts on the Similarities and Differences
Michael W. HomerThe Devil Makers: Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism
Massimo IntrovigneThe Mormon Struggle with Assimilation and Identity: Trends and Developments Since Midcentury
Armand L. MaussThe “New Social History” and the “New Mormon History”: Reflections on Recent Trends
Roger D. LauniusMy 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
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Gary ToppingNauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
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Messages from the Manuals: Twelve Years Later
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Tim B. HeatonThe Sweetness of Cherry Coke
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Helynne Hollstein Hansen“Seizing Sacred Space”: Women’s Engagement in Early Mormonism
Martha Sonntag BradleyMormon Angels in America: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
David PaceFor 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
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D. Michael QuinnErnest L. Wilkinson and the 1966 BYU Spy Ring: A Response to D. Michael Quinn
Jeff D. BlakeMormonism in the Twenty-first Century
Armand L. MaussMormonism in Modern Japan
Jiro NumanoBetween Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand
David GilgenBetween Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand
Ian G. BarberTowards 2000: Mormonism in Australia
Marjorie NewtonReinventing Mormonism: Guatemala as Harbinger of the Future?
Thomas W. MurphyMormonism in Latin America: Towards the Twenty-first Century
David Clark KnowltonEthnization and Accommodation
Walter E. A. Van BeekFeeding the Fleeing Flock
Wilfried DecooScience and Mormonism: Past, Present, Future
David H. BaileyWill 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
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Gordon ShepherdMembership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment
Gary ShepherdThe Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020
Lowell C. Ben BennionThe Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020
Lawrence A. YoungGuest Editor’s Introduction
Armand L. MaussLavina Fielding Anderson and the Power of a Church in Exile
Levi S. PetersonProlegomena to Any Future Mormon Studies
Joanna BrooksWhat You Walk Away From
Holly WelkerResearching Mormonism: General Conference as Artifactual Gold Mine
Richard N. ArmstrongCelebrating Utah’s Centennial: Charter for Statehood: The Story of Utah’s State Constitution by Jean Bickmore White
M. Guy BishopA Test Case for Heresy and Gender Discourse: The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Jana RiessWandering Souls in a Familiar Valley: The Tabernacle Bar by Susan Palmer
Sally Bishop ShigleyThrough a Glass Darkly: Mormons as Perceived by Critics’ Reviews of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Gayle Newbold“Those Amazing Mormons”: The Media’s Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority
Ethan YorgasonCoupe
Cherie K. WoodworthMormon Psychohistory: Psychological Insights into the Latter-day Saint Past, Present, and Future
Mark Koltko-RiveraA History of Dialogue, Part One: The Early Years, 1965-1971
Devery S. AndersonPlain and Simple
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonAnother Perspective: Mormonen—die Heiligen der letzten Zeit, [Mormons—Saints of the Latter Times], by David Trobish
Marc A. SchindlerAn Excellent Survey of the Headlines, But Not of the Heart: Mormon America: The Power and the Promise
Bryan StoutA Happy, Go-Ahead People: Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
R. Jonathan MooreHenry William Bigler: Mormon Chronicler of Great Events: Henry William Bigler
Violet T. KimballProtocols of the (Other) Elders of Zion: The History of the Saints, 3d edition, by John C. Bennett, ed. Andrew F. Smith
Terryl L. GivensThe Life of an LDS Apostle: Working the Divine Miracle: The Life of Apostle Henry D. Moyle
Gary BishopPluralism, Mormonism, and World Religion Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion
Cherie K. WoodworthAn Other Mormon History: Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 by Jorge Iber
Thomas W. MurphyDefending Magic: Explaining the Necessity of Ordinances
Dennis R. PotterLions, Brothers, and the Idea of an Indian Nation
Craig LivingstonCorrelated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal
Hugo N. OlaizHugh Nibley: Hugh Nibley: “”A Consecrated Life “” by Boyd Jay Petersen
Tania Rands LyonA Landmark in Mormon Thought: Exploring Mormon Thought, Volume 1: The Attitudes of God, by Blake T. Ostler
James McLachlanMormon Polygamy and the American Constitution: The Mormon Question
Kathleen FlakeMormonism, Death, Salvation, and Exaltation: The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory, by Douglas J. Davies
Marie CornwallNo Other Way?: Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity
Keith E. NormanDissent Without Definition: Mormon Mavericks: Essays on Dissenters, edited by John Sillito and Susan Staker
Stephen TaysomReaching toward Heaven, Rooted on Earth: Falling Toward Heaven, by John Bennion
Paul GuajardoSinnamon Twist: The Marketing of “Sister B” by Linda Hoffman Kimball
Mary Ellen Robertson“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
Cecilia Konchar FarrMurder, with a Side of Philosophy: The Angel Acronym by Paul M. Edwards
Michael AustinA Stark Contrast: Farewell to Eden: Coming to Terms with Mormonism and Science by Duwayne R. Anderson
Thomas W. MurphyThe Making of Grave Community Sin
Garth N. JonesThe Maturing of the Oak: The Dynamics of Latter-day Saint Growth in Latin America
Mark L. GroverHow Many Members Are There Really? Two Censuses and the Meaning of LDS Membership in Chile and Mexico
David Clark KnowltonThe Psalms
Richard CliffordKeywords: Joseph Smith, Language Change, and Theological Innovation, 1829-44
Jason H. LindquistSeeing Post-Zion Salt Lake City: Seeing Salt Lake City: The Legacy of the Shipler Photographers by Alan Barnett
Byron C. SmithPeer-Reviewed Genealogy: Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors by Val D. Rust
Mark T. DeckerA Scholarly Tribute to Leonard Arrington: The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures, Special Collections and Archives – Utah State University Libraries
Newell G. BringhurstPossibilities, Problems and Pitfalls: Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century, Edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Lavinia Fielding Anderson
John SillitoPatriarchy or Gender Equality? The Letter to the Ephesians on Submission, Headship, and Slavery
Carrie A. MilesWithout Purse or Scrip in Scotland
Polly AirdEternal Progression in a Multiverse: An Explorative Mormon Cosmology
Kirk D. HagenA Touching Remembrance: Bittersweet: A Candid Love Story by Helen Elizabeth Nebeker
Richard J. JacobHeartfelt Theater: Matters of the Heart by Thom Duncan
Nan McCullochSafe Haven for a Time: The Mormon Colonies in Mexico by Thomas Cottam Romney
Paul H. WrightDining with the Devil: A Long Spoon: Poems by R. A. Christmas
Robert A. ReesAnalyzing Spiritual Things from a Sociological Perspective: The Rise of Mormonism by Rodney Stark and Reid Neilson
Jeffrey NeedleBig Wonderful, Little Masterpiece: Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming by Kevin Holdsworth
Mary Lythgoe BradfordGetting at the Marrow: The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore bu William A. Wilson
Edward A. GearyA Plurality of Competing Selves: My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony by Wayne C. Booth
Neal W. KramerThe Gospel in Communication: A Conversation with Communication Theorist John Durham Peters
Ethan YorgasonA Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine
Nathan B. OmanA Playwright with a Passion for Unvarnished Depictions: An Interview with Tom Rogers
Todd M. ComptonShadows on the Sun Dial: John E. Page and the Strangites
William ShepardCan Deconstruction Save the Day? “”Faithful Scholarship”” and the Uses of Postmodernism
John-Charles DuffyFighting over “Mormon”
Ryan T. Cragun“Who’s in charge here?”: Utah Expedition Command Ambiguity
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Karen D. AustinBetween Silver Linings and Clouds
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David W. GruaThe Plan of Stagnation: A Review of Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
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Marc Alain BohnThe Fabulous Jesus: A Heresy of Reconciliation
Scott C. DavisAs 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…
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Heather HardyThe Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon
Robert A. ReesA Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman
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Blair Dee HodgesReview: A. Scott Howe and Richard L. Bushman, eds. Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision
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William V. SmithReview: Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
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David J. HowlettRoundtable: As Presently Constituted: Mormon Studies in the Field of Religion: Religious Studies as Comparative Religion
Michael D. K. IngKnowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham, and Joseph Smith as Translator
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Mormonism and the Possibility of a Materialist Apostasy
Zachary GublerThe 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
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Ryan Bell“Mormon”: A Journalist’s Dilemma
Peggy Fletcher StackSweater
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David W. ScottReview: The Empty Space between the Walls Joseph M. Spencer. The Vision of All: Twenty-five Lectures on Isaiah in Nephi’s Record
Mark D. ThomasReview: Not Alone Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Cristina RosettiReview: Envisioning Mormon Art Laura Allred Hurtado. Immediate Present
Sarah C. ReedReview: Horror Becomes Banal Under Scrutiny but Loss is Lasting in The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner Jennifer Quist. The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner
Rachel HelpsReview: Helping Us Think and Be in the World Linda Sillitoe. Owning the Moon
Lisa Orme BickmoreReview: The Gift of Language Heidi Naylor. Revolver
Michael Andrew EllisReview: A Life Worth Living George B. Handley. Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion
Zach HutchinsReview: Traveling “the undiscovered country” Stephen Carter, ed. Moth and Rust: Mormon Encounters with Death
Susan Elizabeth Howe“A Portion of God’s Light”: Mormonism and Religious Pluralism
Brian D. BirchCommunity of Christ: An American Progressive Christianity, with Mormonism as an Option
Chrystal VanelI 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
Gary ToppingThe Word of Wisdom in Contemporary American Mormonism: Perceptions and Practice
Jana Riess“Infected With Doubt”: An Empirical Overview of Belief and Non-Belief in Contemporary American Mormonism
Benjamin R. KnollMormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy
Dennis R. PotterJuanita Brooks and Fawn Brodie — Sisters in Mormon Dissent
Newell G. BringhurstAnxiously Engaged: Amy Brown Lyman and Relief Society Charity Work, 1917-45
David HallTranslating Mormon Thought
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Richard P. HowardThe Historians and Mormon Nauvoo
Richard BushmanThe Missouri & Illinois Mormons in Ante Bellum Fiction
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Carlos S. WhitingA Survey of Current Theses and Dissertations
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Stephen W. StathisHistoriography and the New Mormon History: A Historian’s Perspective
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John D. NielsonReligious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream
(author)Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream
(author)Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream
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Allen D. RobertsBalance and Faith: The Latter-day Saints: A Contemporary History of the Church of Jesus Christ by William E. Berrett
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Carol EdisonOf Truth and Passion: Mormonism and Existential Thought
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Roger D. LauniusLaunius shares how the Reorganized Church has changed their stance on baptisms for the dead.
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Ken DriggsDriggs shares what an early fundamentalist leader by the name of Leory S. Johnson taught about the church and polygamy.
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Martha S. BradleyBradley describes how even after the Short Creek Raids happened, the women there still believed in plural marriage.
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Marjorie NewtonMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Mormonism and the Challenge of the Mainline
Marie CornwallMormonism Becomes a Mainline Religion: The Challenges: Viewing Mormonism as Mainline
Mario S. De PillisTwentieth-Century Polygamy and Fundamentalist Mormons in Southern Utah
Ken DriggsDriggs shares the story of how in between the First and Second Manifestos, polygamy was still happening in secret.
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Lola Van WagenenBook of Mormon Stories That My Teachers Kept From Me
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James E. ChapmanA Response to Paul Toscano’s “A Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power”
Elbert Eugene PeckA Plea to the Leadership of the Church: Choose Love Not Power
Paul James ToscanoLiberal Spirituality: A Personal Odyssey
L. Jackson NewellDialogue Toward Forgiveness: A Supporting View
Richard D. PollThe LDS Intellectual Community and Church Leadership: A Contemporary Chronology
Lavina Fielding AndersonWomen’s Place in the Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia of Mormonism
Lavina Fielding AndersonToward Intellectual Anarchy: Encyclopedia of Mormonism
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Lorin K. HansenSpiritualism and Mormonism: Some Thoughts on the Similarities and Differences
Michael W. HomerThe Devil Makers: Contemporary Evangelical Fundamentalist Anti-Mormonism
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Gary ToppingNauvoo Roots of Mormon Polygamy, 1841-46: A Preliminary Demographic Report
George D. SmithSmith 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
Janine BoyceFamilial, Socioeconomic, and Religious Behavior: A Comparison of LDS and Non-LDS Women
Tim B. HeatonThe Sweetness of Cherry Coke
Joleen Ashman RobinsonI Must Speak Up
Hilda Kathryn Erickson PackMama
Guenevere NelsonIn Search of Women’s Language and Feminist Expression Among Nauvoo Wives in A Little Lower Than the Angels
Helynne Hollstein Hansen“Seizing Sacred Space”: Women’s Engagement in Early Mormonism
Martha Sonntag BradleyMormon Angels in America: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
David PaceFor 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
Lance S. OwensA Reply
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Jeff D. BlakeMormonism in the Twenty-first Century
Armand L. MaussMormonism in Modern Japan
Jiro NumanoBetween Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand
David GilgenBetween Covenant and Treaty: The LDS Future in New Zealand
Ian G. BarberTowards 2000: Mormonism in Australia
Marjorie NewtonReinventing Mormonism: Guatemala as Harbinger of the Future?
Thomas W. MurphyMormonism in Latin America: Towards the Twenty-first Century
David Clark KnowltonEthnization and Accommodation
Walter E. A. Van BeekFeeding the Fleeing Flock
Wilfried DecooScience and Mormonism: Past, Present, Future
David H. BaileyWill 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
Karl C. SandbergMembership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment
Gordon ShepherdMembership Growth, Church Activity, Missionary Recruitment
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Lowell C. Ben BennionThe Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020
Lawrence A. YoungGuest Editor’s Introduction
Armand L. MaussLavina Fielding Anderson and the Power of a Church in Exile
Levi S. PetersonProlegomena to Any Future Mormon Studies
Joanna BrooksWhat You Walk Away From
Holly WelkerResearching Mormonism: General Conference as Artifactual Gold Mine
Richard N. ArmstrongCelebrating Utah’s Centennial: Charter for Statehood: The Story of Utah’s State Constitution by Jean Bickmore White
M. Guy BishopA Test Case for Heresy and Gender Discourse: The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Jana RiessWandering Souls in a Familiar Valley: The Tabernacle Bar by Susan Palmer
Sally Bishop ShigleyThrough a Glass Darkly: Mormons as Perceived by Critics’ Reviews of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America
Gayle Newbold“Those Amazing Mormons”: The Media’s Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority
Ethan YorgasonCoupe
Cherie K. WoodworthMormon Psychohistory: Psychological Insights into the Latter-day Saint Past, Present, and Future
Mark Koltko-RiveraA History of Dialogue, Part One: The Early Years, 1965-1971
Devery S. AndersonPlain and Simple
Marilyn Bushman-CarltonAnother Perspective: Mormonen—die Heiligen der letzten Zeit, [Mormons—Saints of the Latter Times], by David Trobish
Marc A. SchindlerAn Excellent Survey of the Headlines, But Not of the Heart: Mormon America: The Power and the Promise
Bryan StoutA Happy, Go-Ahead People: Mormon America: The Power and the Promise, by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
R. Jonathan MooreHenry William Bigler: Mormon Chronicler of Great Events: Henry William Bigler
Violet T. KimballProtocols of the (Other) Elders of Zion: The History of the Saints, 3d edition, by John C. Bennett, ed. Andrew F. Smith
Terryl L. GivensThe Life of an LDS Apostle: Working the Divine Miracle: The Life of Apostle Henry D. Moyle
Gary BishopPluralism, Mormonism, and World Religion Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion
Cherie K. WoodworthAn Other Mormon History: Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999 by Jorge Iber
Thomas W. MurphyDefending Magic: Explaining the Necessity of Ordinances
Dennis R. PotterLions, Brothers, and the Idea of an Indian Nation
Craig LivingstonCorrelated Praise: The Development of the Spanish Hymnal
Hugo N. OlaizHugh Nibley: Hugh Nibley: “”A Consecrated Life “” by Boyd Jay Petersen
Tania Rands LyonA Landmark in Mormon Thought: Exploring Mormon Thought, Volume 1: The Attitudes of God, by Blake T. Ostler
James McLachlanMormon Polygamy and the American Constitution: The Mormon Question
Kathleen FlakeMormonism, Death, Salvation, and Exaltation: The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace and Glory, by Douglas J. Davies
Marie CornwallNo Other Way?: Rescue for the Dead: The Posthumous Salvation of Non-Christians in Early Christianity
Keith E. NormanDissent Without Definition: Mormon Mavericks: Essays on Dissenters, edited by John Sillito and Susan Staker
Stephen TaysomReaching toward Heaven, Rooted on Earth: Falling Toward Heaven, by John Bennion
Paul GuajardoSinnamon Twist: The Marketing of “Sister B” by Linda Hoffman Kimball
Mary Ellen Robertson“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
Cecilia Konchar FarrMurder, with a Side of Philosophy: The Angel Acronym by Paul M. Edwards
Michael AustinA Stark Contrast: Farewell to Eden: Coming to Terms with Mormonism and Science by Duwayne R. Anderson
Thomas W. MurphyThe Making of Grave Community Sin
Garth N. JonesThe Maturing of the Oak: The Dynamics of Latter-day Saint Growth in Latin America
Mark L. GroverHow Many Members Are There Really? Two Censuses and the Meaning of LDS Membership in Chile and Mexico
David Clark KnowltonThe Psalms
Richard CliffordKeywords: Joseph Smith, Language Change, and Theological Innovation, 1829-44
Jason H. LindquistSeeing Post-Zion Salt Lake City: Seeing Salt Lake City: The Legacy of the Shipler Photographers by Alan Barnett
Byron C. SmithPeer-Reviewed Genealogy: Radical Origins: Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors by Val D. Rust
Mark T. DeckerA Scholarly Tribute to Leonard Arrington: The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures, Special Collections and Archives – Utah State University Libraries
Newell G. BringhurstPossibilities, Problems and Pitfalls: Excavating Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century, Edited by Newell G. Bringhurst and Lavinia Fielding Anderson
John SillitoPatriarchy or Gender Equality? The Letter to the Ephesians on Submission, Headship, and Slavery
Carrie A. MilesWithout Purse or Scrip in Scotland
Polly AirdEternal Progression in a Multiverse: An Explorative Mormon Cosmology
Kirk D. HagenA Touching Remembrance: Bittersweet: A Candid Love Story by Helen Elizabeth Nebeker
Richard J. JacobHeartfelt Theater: Matters of the Heart by Thom Duncan
Nan McCullochSafe Haven for a Time: The Mormon Colonies in Mexico by Thomas Cottam Romney
Paul H. WrightDining with the Devil: A Long Spoon: Poems by R. A. Christmas
Robert A. ReesAnalyzing Spiritual Things from a Sociological Perspective: The Rise of Mormonism by Rodney Stark and Reid Neilson
Jeffrey NeedleBig Wonderful, Little Masterpiece: Big Wonderful: Notes from Wyoming by Kevin Holdsworth
Mary Lythgoe BradfordGetting at the Marrow: The Marrow of Human Experience: Essays on Folklore bu William A. Wilson
Edward A. GearyA Plurality of Competing Selves: My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony by Wayne C. Booth
Neal W. KramerThe Gospel in Communication: A Conversation with Communication Theorist John Durham Peters
Ethan YorgasonA Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine
Nathan B. OmanA Playwright with a Passion for Unvarnished Depictions: An Interview with Tom Rogers
Todd M. ComptonShadows on the Sun Dial: John E. Page and the Strangites
William ShepardCan Deconstruction Save the Day? “”Faithful Scholarship”” and the Uses of Postmodernism
John-Charles DuffyFighting over “Mormon”
Ryan T. Cragun“Who’s in charge here?”: Utah Expedition Command Ambiguity
William P. MacKinnonBecoming a “Messenger of Peace”: Jacob Hamblin in Tooele
Todd M. ComptonThe Long-Distance Mormon
Paul SwensonTime Tabled by Mormon History
Karen D. AustinBetween Silver Linings and Clouds
Laura Hilton CranerIn The Nephite Courtroom
Ronan James HeadMormonism in Daniel Walker Howe’s “What God Hath Wrought”
David W. GruaThe Plan of Stagnation: A Review of Elna Baker, The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance
Holly WelkerThe World According to Golden: A Review of Brady Udall, The Lonely Polygamist
Phillip A. SnyderTerryl Givens and the Shape of Mormon Studies: A Review of Terryl Givens, The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction
Marc Alain BohnThe Fabulous Jesus: A Heresy of Reconciliation
Scott C. DavisAs 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
Michael D. K. IngCharles Taylor: Catholic Mentor to the Mormon Scholar
James C. OlsenAlma’s Experiment in Faith: A Broader Context
Heather HardyThe Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon
Robert A. ReesA Retrospective on the Scholarship of Richard Bushman
Grant UnderwoodA Community of Abundance
Lant PritchettErrand Out of the Wilderness Matthew Bowman. The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
Robert ElderReview: Tom Mould. Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition
Blair Dee HodgesReview: A. Scott Howe and Richard L. Bushman, eds. Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision
(author)Review: Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason, eds. New Perspectives in Mormon Studies: Creating and Crossing Boundaries
(author)Ex-Mormon Narratives and Pastoral Apologetics
Seth PayneEarly Mormon Priesthood Revelation: Text, Impact, and Evolution
William V. SmithReview: Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens. The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
Adam S. MillerWhat Does Kashi Have to Do With Salt Lake?: Academic Comparisons, Asian Religions, and Mormonism
David J. HowlettRoundtable: As Presently Constituted: Mormon Studies in the Field of Religion: Religious Studies as Comparative Religion
Michael D. K. IngKnowing Brother Joseph Again: The Book of Abraham, and Joseph Smith as Translator
Karl C. SandbergThe 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.