Item Detail
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10830
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7
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74
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English
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Toward a Social Science of Contemporary Mormondom
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BYU Studies
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Winter 1986
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26
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73-121
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The essential characteristics of a responsible social science of the Mormon people and their cultures is sketched. They review the quality and scope of the existing social science literature of modern Mormondom and, except for a few bright spots, deem it to be 'mostly disappointing.' They condemn the practice evident in many of the studies to claim as fact findings which are more in the realm of assumptions or probabilities. They offer some proposals for future social science research into what they term the 'big' questions, but which have been sorely neglected in past research studies. These topics include the nature and consequences of international growth, missionary work and conversion, testimonies and personal religiosity, and prophetic leadership. They point out some insights and research questions which are brought into clearer focus when Mormondom is viewed as if it were an underdeveloped nation having the distinguishing characteristics of a boomtown. They make some recommendations for improving the quality and scope of future Mormon social science research.
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All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
Contemporary Mormonism : Social Science Perspectives
Marriage
Mormon History
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Preserving Peculiarity as a People : Mormon Distinctness in Lived Values and Internal Structure
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives -
A Comparison of Mormon and Non-Mormon Ethnic Attitudes
A Demographic Portrait of the Mormons, 1830-1980
Adolescent Pregnancy in the 1970s : A Study Comparing Utah and the United States
A Factor-Analytic Study of Male-Female Differences in Mormon Religiosity
An Analysis of BYU 1963 Women Graduates' Present Status as Mothers in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
An Assessment of Cancer Risk Factors in Latter-day Saints and Non-Latter-day Saints in Utah
An Empirical Test of Rodman's Theory of Resources in Cultural Context
A Population-based Assessment of Familial Cancer Risk in Utah Mormon Genealogies
A Research Note on Attitudes towards Interreligious Marriage
Attitudes toward Marital Infidelity : A Nine-culture Sampling of University Student Opinions
Cancer Incidence in Mormons and Non-Mormons in Utah, 1966-1970
Cancer Incidence in Mormons and Non-Mormons in Utah during 1967-75
Cancer in Utah : Risk by Religion and Place of Residence
Cancer Mortality among Active California Mormons
Cancer Mortality among Mormons
Cancer Risk and Lifestyle : Cancer among Mormons from 1967-1975
Cancer Risk Factors : An Analysis of Utah Mormons and Non-Mormons
Cardiovascular Mortality in Mormons and Non-Mormons in Utah, 1969-1970
Changing Sex Norms in America and Scandinavia
Congenital Malformations in Utah
Crisis in Identity : Mormon Responses in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Differences between Mormon Missionaries' Perceptions and Chinese Natives' Expectations in Intercultural Transactions
Dying as Social Behavior : Mormon Behavior Through Half a Century
Enigmas in Interpreting Mormonism
Ethnicity and Resistance to Compensatory Education : A Comparison of Mormon and Non-Mormon Ethnic Attitudes
Family in the Mormon Experience
Family Planning Attitudes and Practices in a Mormon Community
Family Size and Contraceptive Use among Mormons, 1965-1975
Fertility-related Attitudes of Mormon Women across Three Generations
For the Strength of the Hills : Imagining Mormon Country
Health and Dietary Practices and Cancer Mortality among California Mormons
How International is the Church in Japan?
Life in Large Families : Views of Mormon Women
Low Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Utah
Low Cervical Cancer Rates in Mormon vs. Non-Mormon Women in Utah : An Analysis
Malignant Melanoma in Utah
Moderation in All Things : Political and Social Outlooks of Modern Urban Mormons
Mormon and Non-Mormon Migration in and out of Utah
Mormon Fertility and the Americanization Hypothesis : Some Further Comments
Mormon Fertility through Half a Century : Another Test of the Americanization Hypothesis
Mormon Health
Mormonism and Birth Planning : Discrepancy between Church Authorities' Teachings and Lay Attitudes
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism in Black Africa : Changing Attitudes and Practices, 1830-1981
Mormon Mortality Rates in Canada
Mormons and Social Distance Multi-dimensional Analysis
Mormon Sexuality in Cross-cultural Perspective
Mormons in Britain : A Survey
Mormon World View and American Culture
Politics and Society : Anglo-American Mormons in a Revolutionary Land
Prostatic Cancer in Utah, 1966-1977
Religion and Fertility : The Case of Mormonism
Religiosity and Deviance : Application of an Attitude-Behavior Contingent Consistency Model
Religious Affiliation and Migration Intentions in Nonmetropolitan Utah
Residency Differentials in Mormon Fertility
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Saints, Cities, and Secularism : Religious Attitudes and Behavior of Modern Urban Mormons
Scholarly Studies of Mormonism in the Twentieth Century
Secularization, Higher Education, and Religiosity
Sociological Perspectives on the Mormon Subculture
Spiritual Well-being and the Consequential Dimension of Religiosity among Mormons
The Church Moves Outside the United States : Some Observations from Latin America
The Expansion of Mormonism in the South Pacific
The Japanese Reaction to Mormonism and the Translation of Mormon Scripture into Japanese
The Mormon Family : Proceedings of the Annual Family Research Conference at Brigham Young University, 1975
The Mormons
The Mormons : Looking Forward and Outward
The Neutralization of Religious Dissonance
The Persistence of Chastity : A Built-In Resistance Within Mormon Culture to Secular Trends
The Relation of Mormon Parental Religiosity and Family Size on Children's Educational, Occupational and Income Success
The Religious Factor and Delinquency : Another Look at the Hellfire Hypothesis
The Rise of a New World Faith
Uncertain Sanctuary : A Story of Mormon Pioneering in Mexico
Utah in Demographic Perspective : Regional and National Contrasts