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English
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Statistical Content Analysis of Historical Documents : A Case for Social Science Analysis in Mormon Studies
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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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204-222
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Sociologists Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd illustrate a different social scientific approach by reviewing the methods and findings from their statistical content analysis of LDS General Conference addresses and early patriarchal blessings. Their detailed examination of a particular case (Mormonism) allows them to make claims about more general phenomena, such as the relative effectiveness of "commitment mechanism" in the success of new religious movements. [Editor's summary]
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A Kingdom Transformed : Themes in the Development of Mormonism
Binding Earth and Heaven : Patriarchal Blessings in the Prophetic Development of Early Mormonism
Early Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Later Patriarchal Blessings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Rethinking Retrenchment : Course Corrections in the Ongoing Campaign for Respectability
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Rise of Mormonism
Women in New Religions