Item Detail
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English
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Authority in Mormonism : A Rational Choice Analysis
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Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Utah Press
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179-203
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Economist Michael McBride's essay is the first use of rational choice analysis (informed by game theory) to examine how authority works in Mormonism. Following a helpful introduction for nonspecialists, McBride examines the workings of authority in the cases of the transmission of authority and leadership through church callings, as well as challenges to and the enforcement of sartorial norms as seen through the episode of "Wear Pants to Church Day." [Editor's summary]
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A Critique of Leone and Dolgin's Application of Bellah's Evolutionary Model to Mormonism
A Defense of the Authority of Church Doctrine
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
"A Style of Our Own" : Modesty and Mormon Women, 1951-2008
Club Mormon : Free-Riders, Monitoring, and Exclusion in the LDS Church
Contemporary Mormonism : Latter-day Saints in Modern America
Dealing with Social Change : The Mormon Church's Response to Change in Women's Roles
"Does Not Purport to Comprehend All Matters of Church Government" : The LDS "General Handbook of Instructions", 1899—2006
Echoes and Foreshadowings : The Distinctiveness of the Mormon Community
Flowers, Weeds, and Thistles : The State of Social Science Literature on the Mormons
From Sacred Grove to Sacral Power Structure
Game Theory, The Prisoner's Dilemma, and the Book of Mormon
Latter-day Sense and Substance
Mormonism and the Avoidance of Sectarian Stagnation : A Study of Church, Sect, and Incipient Nationality
Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century : Marketing for Miracles
People of Paradox : A History of Mormon Culture
Seeking a "Second Harvest" : Controlling the Costs of LDS Membership in Europe
The Economic Basis for the Evolution of Mormon Religion
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormons
The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
The Rise of Mormonism
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
Those Amazing Mormons' : The Media's Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority
Why Do Some Perceive the Church to be a Cult? Inside and Outside Perceptions versus Reality