Revisiting: Mormonism in Transition: a history of the Latter-day Saints,...
This post inaugurates a new series at the Juvenile Instructor, featuring brief conversations reassessing the significance of major works of Mormon history. In this post, matt b and Christopher discuss...
View ArticleRevisiting: “Mormonism’s Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview”
With Stephen J. Fleming Normally articles take a back seat to monographs in terms of impact, but Lester E. Bush’s 1973 Dialogue article “Mormonisms’ Negro Doctrine: An Historical Overview” stands as a...
View ArticleReassessing: The Refiner’s Fire: the making of Mormon cosmology, 1644-1844
It’s my opinion that the further we get from the publication of John Brooke’s The Refiner’s Fire, a wildly inventive examination of Mormon origins through the lens of various esoteric European -isms...
View ArticleReassessing: D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
D. Michael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View, Revised and Enlarged Edition. Salt Lake City: Signature, 1998. In reassessing Quinn’s classic study, I’ll simply say that Stephen Ricks’s and...
View ArticleA Weekend Poll
I’ll be teaching a seminar this fall on American religious pluralism and I need to submit my book adoptions soon. What’s hip, new and suitable for upper-level undergrads? Or, alternatively, what are...
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75th Anniversary Review of Joseph Fielding Smith’s “Life of Joseph F. Smith”
Joseph Fielding Smith, Life of Joseph F. Smith. Salt Lake City: The Deseret News Press, 1938. 490 pp. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of a classic of Mormon biography,...
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New Journal of Mormon History Issue, Featuring a Roundtable on John Brooke’s...
The latest issue of Journal of Mormon History is hot off the press this week and is now available to download for those of you who are members of the Mormon History Association. (And if you’re not a...
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Reassassing Robert Flanders’s NAUVOO: KINGDOM ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Fifty Years...
This post resurrects an old and unfortunately infrequent JI series, “Reassessing the Classics,” where we look at important books from days of Mormon history past. And the post’s title is partly a...
View ArticleReassessing the Classics: Armand Mauss’s THE ANGEL AND THE BEEHIVE (part 1 of 3)
For the next several days, the Juvenile Instructor will examine the work of the sociologist Armand Mauss, a pioneering figure in Mormon studies, under the banner of our occasional series “Reassessing...
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