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Mormonism
Interviews with scholars of Mormonism about their new books.
November 26, 2024
This Abominable Slavery
On July 22, 1847, a group of about forty refugees entered the Salt Lake Valley. Among them were three enslaved men, two of whom shared the religion, M…
March 24, 2024
Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
In this never-before-told history of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons, Brent M. Rogers presents the intersections in the epic histories of William F. "Buf…
January 29, 2024
Illicit Monogamy
Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. Based on many years o…
January 25, 2024
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates
Renowned historian of Mormonism Richard Lyman Bushman's latest book presents a vibrant history of a sacred object that gave birth to a new religion: t…
August 22, 2023
Convicting the Mormons
On September 11, 1857, a small band of Mormons led by John D. Lee massacred an emigrant train of men, women, and children heading west at Mountain Mea…
July 28, 2023
Like a Fiery Meteor
Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his father and his uncle, Joseph Smith Jr., the founding…
April 21, 2023
Works of Love in a World of Violence
Today I talked to Deidre Nicole Green about her book Works of Love in a World of Violence: Feminism, Kierkegaard, and the Limits of Self-Sacrifice (Mo…
April 20, 2023
Kingdom of Nauvoo
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, treated as fringe cultists at best or marginalized as polygamists unworthy of serious …
April 19, 2023
Jacob
"What could I have done more for my vineyard?" In one of the Book of Mormon's most magisterial passages, the lord of a vineyard looks over his beloved…
March 21, 2023
Forbidden Intimacies
In the past thirty years, polygamy has become a flashpoint of conflict as Western governments attempt to regulate certain cultural and religious pract…
February 6, 2023
The Burning Book
The Burning Book (By Common Consent Press, 2022) is an unusual and intriguing memoir about Jason Olsen's conversion from Judaism to Mormonism. But it …
January 21, 2023
Reflections of a Mormon who Became a Catholic
Jeremy Christiansen’s autobiography, From the Susquehanna to the Tiber, tells the story of his happy Mormon upbringing, the questioning of his faith, …
January 3, 2023
Imperial Zions
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has always been globally situated, argues Montana State history professor Amanda Hendrix-Komoto in Imp…
October 12, 2022
Make Yourselves Gods
From the perspective of Protestant America, nineteenth-century Mormons were the victims of a peculiar zealotry, a population deranged––socially, sexua…
September 13, 2022
On "The Book of Mormon"
In 1827 a young farmer named Joseph Smith was visited by an angel. The angel led him to a hillside where he uncovered a set of ancient gold plates wri…
August 11, 2022
On Mormon Fundamentalism
Cristina Rosetti completed her Ph.D. in religious studies at the University of California Riverside. She writes about Mormon fundamentalism.…
July 8, 2022
Revising Eternity
Marriage's central role in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints distinguishes the faith while simultaneously reflecting widespread American…
June 23, 2022
On Plural Marriage
Philippa J. Meek is a doctoral fellow at the University of Exeter. Meek researches public perceptions versus the realities of plural marriage within F…
May 19, 2022
Frontier Religion
In Frontier Religion: The Mormon-American Contest for the Meaning of America, 1857-1907 (U Utah Press, 2019) Konden Smith Hansen examines the dramatic…
March 8, 2022
On Mormonism, Race, and Politics
Max Perry Mueller received his PhD from Harvard University. He is a historian of American religion and an assistant professor of religious studies at …