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English
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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Blackwell Companion to Religion in America
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West Sussex, U.K.
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Wiley-Blackwell
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508-526
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This chapter gives an overview of the organization and doctrines of the Church. The author then describes various record-keeping practices of the Saints, including journal keeping, and the more formal work done by historians. Also included are descriptions of church histories written by authors such as Andrew Jenson, T. B. H. Stenhouse, Edward W. Tullidge, Hubert Howe Bancroft, Orson F. Whitney, B. H. Roberts, Fawn M. Brodie, Leonard J. Arrington, Thomas O'Dea, and Jan Shipps.