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English
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On Being Human : The Folklore of Mormon Missionaries
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Latter-day Lore : Mormon Folklore Studies
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Salt Lake City
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University of Utah Press
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415-433
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In the 1960s and 1970s, a prospective young scholar wanting to pursue graduate study of the Mormon experience would have sought a history program that emphasized the American West. In the 1980s and 1990s, such a scholar might still have looked at history departments, especially those with programs in American religious history. By the turn of the twenty-first century, graduate students in religious studies programs are beginning to complete their Mormon-focused dissertations. These trends follow the changing perceptions of Mormonism from a side story in the settlement of the American West, to a native born and distinctively American form of heterodox Christianity, to a growing worldwide religious movement. [From the text]