Item Detail
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17762
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English
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Gunfighters, Prostitutes, and Mormon Historians : The Historian and the Memory Maker
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John Whitmer Historical Association Journal
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2000
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20
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59-75
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Among Mormon historians, we have gunfighters (those who assume the role of shooting down disagreeable myths or illogical beliefs) and prostitutes (those who rationalize the myths and soften the illogical and tell us all is okay if we keep the faith). He observes that people see the gap between the traditional story and documents which convey something else or that which is presented as ideal and the realities people experience in the church. Often the historian who analyzes and questions these myths or ideals is viewed as the cause of the problems rather than the messenger of change. He suggests that we need to create a new myth that can encompass our diverse experiences.
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Mormon Memory, Mormon Myth, and Mormon History
New Views of Mormon History : A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
The Development of Mormon Communitarianism, 1826-1846
The Mormon Past : Revealed or Revisited?
The Radical Reformation of the Reorganization of the Restoration : Recent Changes in the RLDS Understanding of the Book of Mormon
The Ritualization of Mormon History