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From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
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Oxford University Press
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This book contains fifteen essays, each first presented as the annual Tanner Lecture at the conference of the Mormon History Association by a leading scholar. Renowned in their own specialties but relatively new to the study of Mormon history at the time of their lectures, these scholars approach Mormon history from a wide variety of perspectives, including such concerns as gender, identity creation, and globalization.Several of these essays place Mormon history within the currents of American religious history--for example, by placing Joseph Smith and other Latter-day Saints in conversation with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nat Turner, fellow millenarians, and freethinkers. Other essays explore the creation of Mormon identities, demonstrating how Mormons created a unique sense of themselves as a distinct people. Historians of the American West examine Mormon connections with American imperialism, the Civil War, and the wider cultural landscape. Finally the essayists look at continuing Latter-day Saint growth around the world, within the context of the study of global religions. Examining Mormon history from an outsider's perspective, the essays presented in this volume ask intriguing questions, share fresh insights and perspectives, analyze familiar sources in unexpected ways, and situate research on the Mormon past within broader scholarly debates.
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"A Babe Upon Its Mother's Lap" : Church Development in a Developing World
Abraham Lincoln as Seen by the Mormons
A Brief History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the Birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith to the Present Time
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Concise History of the Mormon Battalion in the Mexican War, 1846-1847
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church, Volume One, 1830-1847
Alberta Polygamists? The Canadian Climate and Response to the Introduction of Mormonism's 'Peculiar Institution'
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
All Are Alike Unto God : Fascinating Conversion Stories of African Saints
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
A Mormon Bibliography 1830-1930 : Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Broadsides Relating to the First Century of Mormonism
A Mormon Mother : An Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
Ancestry and Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale
An Early Latter-day Saint History : The Book of John Whitmer Kept by Commandment
An Intimate Chronicle : The Journals of William Clayton
An Introduction to Mormonism
An Ordered Love : The Sex Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias--The Shakers, The Mormons, and The Oneida Community
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Political Interpretation of Mormon History
Apostle of the Poor : The Life and Work of Missionary and Humanitarian Charles D. Neff : A Biography
Are We There Yet? The Story of Children on the Mormon Trail
Army of Israel : Mormon Battalion Narratives
As a Thief in the Night : The Mormon Millennialist View
A Study of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Upper Canada, 1830-1850
A Survey of LDS Proselyting Efforts to the Jewish People
A Survey of Nineteenth-Century Folk Housing in Mormon Culture Region
At Sword's Point, Part 1 : A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858
Autobiographies of Mormon Pioneer Women
A Widow's Tale : The 1884-1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
Bathsheba Bigler Smith
Battle for the Ballot : Essays on Woman Suffrage in Utah, 1870-1896
Becoming Mormon Men : Male Rites of Passage and the Rise of Mormonism in Nineteenth-century America
Blessed Damozels : Women in Mormon History
Brigham's Destroying Angel
Brigham Young: American Moses
Brother to Brother : The Story of the Latter-day Saint Missionaries Who Took the Gospel to Black Africa
Building Zion : Folk Architecture in the Mormon Settlements of Utah's Sanpete Valley, 1849-1890
By the Hand of Mormon : The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion
Canada : From Struggling Seed, the Church Has Risen to Branching Maple
Canadian Mormon Identity and the French Fact
Childhood in Gunnison, Utah
Children on the Mormon Trail
Children's Clothing on the Utah Frontier
Church Chronology
Conflict and Compromise : The Mormons in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Politics
Contemporary Mormonism : Latter-day Saints in Modern America
Covenant and Chosenness in Judaism and Mormonism
Covenant and Chosenness in Mormonism and Judaism
Creating Regional Identity, Moral Orders and Spatial Contiguity : Imagined Landscapes of Mormon Americanization
Crisis in Identity : Mormon Responses in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Defence of Polygamy, by a Lady in Utah : In a Letter to Her Sister in New Hampshire
Detached from Their Homeland : The Latter-day Saints of Chihuahua, Mexico
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Discourses of Brigham Young : Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Early Mormon Perceptions of Contemporary America : 1830-1846
Early Scenes and Incidents in the Church [Letters to W. W. Phelps]
Eden versus Jerusalem
Elder Statesman : A Biography of J. Reuben Clark
Eleven Autobiographies
Emigrating Journals of The Willie and Martin Handcart Companies and The Hunt and Hodgett Wagon Trains
Emmanuel Abu Kissi : A Gospel Pioneer in Ghana
Emmeline B. Wells : 'Am I Not a Woman and a Sister'?
Ensign to the Nations : A History of the Church from 1846 to the Present
Entre Nous : An Intimate History of MHA
Establishing Zion : The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69
Evangelical America and Early Mormonism
Excavating Mormon Pasts : The New Historiography of the Last Half Century
Exiles for the Principle : LDS Polygamy in Canada
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Expansion Outside the Wasatch Front
Extracting Social Scientific Models from Mormon History
Feminist Implications of Mormon Polygamy
Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Forms and Methods of Early Mormon Settlement in Utah and the Surrounding Region, 1847-1877
From Men to Boys : LDS Aaronic Priesthood Offices, 1829-1996
From Mission to Madness : Last Son of the Mormon Prophet
Gathering and Election : Israelite Descent and Universalism in Mormon Discourse
Gentile and Gentile : Mormon and Jew
Golden Harvest in Ghana : Gospel Beginnings in West Africa
Gold Rush Saints : California Mormons and the Great Rush for Riches
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Growing Up in Zion : True Stories of Young Pioneers Building the Kingdom
Hawaii's Royal Prime Minister : The Life and Times of Walter Murray Gibson
Heart Throbs of the West
'Hide and Seek' : Children on the Underground
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Houses with Two Fronts : The Evolution of Domestic Architectural Design in a Mormon Community
How to Become a People : The Mormon Scenario
Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West
Indian Farms
In Their Own Words : Women and the Story of Nauvoo
Israel, the Mormons and the Land
I Walked to Zion : True Stories of Young Pioneers on the Mormon Trail
Jew and Mormon : Historic Group Relations and Religious Outlook
Jews and Mormons : Two Houses of Israel
John Needham's Nauvoo Letter : 1843
John Willard Young, Brigham Young, and the Development of Presidential Succession in the LDS Church
Joseph Smith and Nauvoo's Youth
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith and the Doctrine of Little Children
Joseph Smith and the Presidency, 1844
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Journal of Mary Ellen Kimball : Including a Sketch of Our History in This Valley
J. Reuben Clark, Jr. : Diplomat and Statesman
J. Reuben Clark : The Public Years
Judaism and Mormonism : Paradigm and Supersession
LDS Understandings of Religious Freedom : Responding to the Shifting Cultural Pendulum
Living the Principle : Mormon Polygamous Housing in Nineteenth-Century Utah
Looking West : Mormonism and the Pacific World
Looking West : Mormonism and the Pacific World
Lords of Creation : Polygamy, the Abrahamic Household, and Mormon Patriarchy
Making Space on the Western Frontier : Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes
Mapping Mormonism : An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History
Marvelous Work and a Wonder, A
Massacre at Mountain Meadows : An American Tragedy
Millard Fillmore, Utah's Friend in the White House
Millennium, Messiahs, and Mayhem : Contemporary Apocalyptic Movements
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon and Methodist : Popular Religion in the Crucible of the Free Market
Mormon Beliefs about Land and Natural Resources, 1847-1877
Mormon Christianity
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Mormon Identity and Landscape in the Rural Intermountain West
Mormonism and the American Experience
Mormonism and the Negro : Faith, Folklore, and Civil Rights
Mormonism and War : An Interpretative Analysis of Selected Mormon Thought Regarding Seven American Wars
Mormonism as a World Religion
Mormonism : A Very Short Introduction
Mormonism in Black Africa : Changing Attitudes and Practices, 1830-1981
Mormonism in the Twenty-first Century : Marketing for Miracles
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism, Philosophical Liberalism, and the Constitution
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormon Midwife: The 1846-1888 Diaries of Patty Bartlett Sessions
Mormon Odyssey : The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife
Mormon Parallels : A Preliminary Bibliography of Materials Offered For Sale
Mormon 'Peculiarity' : Recapitulation and Subordination
Mormon Polygamous Families : Life in the Principle
Mormons and Foreign Policy
Mormons and Mormonism in U.S. Government Documents : A Bibliography
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons and the New Deal : The 1936 Presidential Election in Utah
Mormons as Ethnics : A Canadian Perspective
Mormons as Ethnics : Variable Historical and International Implications of an Appealing Concept
Mormons, Gentiles, and Jews : The Voice of Eveline Brooks Auerbach, Part II
Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah
Mormon Wests : The Creation and Evolution of an American Region
Mothers of the Prophets
Mysteries of Godliness : A History of Mormon Temple Worship
Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nauvoo's Whistling and Whittling Brigade
Nineteenth-Century Mormons : The New Israel
Of Pride and Politics : Brigham Young as Indian Superintendent
Open Hand and Mailed Fist : Mormon-Indian Relations in Utah, 1847-52
Out of the closet and into the fire : the new Mormon historians' take on polygamy
Peace Initiative : Using the Mormons to Rethink Culture and Ethnicity in American History
Personal Faith and Public Policy : Some Timely Observations on the League of Nations Controversy in Utah
Plural Wives
Political Behavior of Mormons in Canada
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Polygamy and Progress : The Reaction to Mormons in Canada, 1887-1923
Polygamy, Patrimony, and Prophecy : The Mormon Colonization of Cardston
Printing in Deseret : Mormons, Economy, Politics & Utah's Incunabula, 1849-1851. A History and Descriptive Bibliography
Protect the Children : Child Labor in Utah, 1880-1920
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Quest for Refuge : The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
Reed Smoot : Apostle in Politics
Reed Smoot, the LDS Church and Progressive Legislation, 1903-1933
Reflections on the Founding and Purpose of the Mormon History Association, 1965-1983
Reflections on the Mormon 'Canon'
Relief Society Birth and Death Rituals : Women at the Gates of Mortality
Religion and Landscape in the Mormon Cultural Region
Rethinking the International Expansion of Mormonism
Revelation on the Priesthood : The Dawning of a New Day in Africa
Scenes in Nauvoo, and Incidents from H. C. Kimball's Journal
Sister Saints
Sisters and Little Saints : One Hundred Years of Primary
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Sisters' Lives, Sisters' Voices : Neglected Reorganized Latter Day Saint Herstories
Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons
Soldiers, Savers, Slackers, and Spies : Southeastern Utah's Response to World War I
Some Comparative Perspectives on the Early Mormon Movement and the Church-State Question, 1830-1845
Spokesman for the Kingdom : Early Mormon Journalism and the Deseret News, 1830-1898
Statehood, Political Allegiance, and Utah's First U.S. Senate Seats : Prizes for the National Parties and Local Factions
Stone Houses of Northern Utah
Studies in Mormon History 1830-1997 : An Indexed Bibliography
Sunbonnet Sisters : True Stories of Mormon Women and Frontier Life
Supporting Saints : Life Stories of Nineteenth-Century Mormons
Telling the Story of Mormon History : Proceedings of the 2002 Symposium of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History at Brigham Young University
The American Religion : The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Autobiography of B. H. Roberts
The Burned-Over District : The Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850
The Church in a Cross-Cultural World
The Clark Memorandum Myth
The Democratization of American Christianity
The Diaries of Charles Ora Card, The Canadian Years, 1886-1903
The Doctrine of an Inspired Constitution
The Early Temples of the Mormons: The Architecture of the Millennial Kingdom in the American West
The Essential Orson Pratt
The Fading of the Pharaoh's Curse : The Decline and Fall of the Priesthood Ban against Blacks in the Mormon Church
The First Months of Mormonism : A Contemporary View By Rev. Diedrich Willers
The First Mormon Temple: Design, Construction, and Historic Context of the Kirtland Temple
The First Presidency Statement on MX in Perspective
The Founding of an Empire : The Exploration and Colonization of Utah, 1776-1856
The Ideology of Empire: A New from "America's Attic"
The Impact of Secularization on Proselytism in Europe : A Minority Religion Perspective
The Importance of Being Monogamous : Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915
The Journals of William E. McLellin 1831-1836
The Kirtland Hebrew School
The Latter Day Saint Churches : An Annotated Bibliography
The Latter-Day Saint Experience in America
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Battalion : U.S. Army of the West 1846-1848
The Mormon Church and the Spanish-American War : An End to Selective Pacifism
The Mormon Church-State Confrontation in Nineteenth Century America
The Mormon Conflict, 1850-1859
The Mormon Country : A Summer with the 'Latter-day Saints'
The Mormon Culture Region : Strategies and Patterns in the Geography of the American West, 1847-1964
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormon Experience : The Plains as Sinai, the Great Salt Lake as the Dead Sea, and the Great Basin as Desert-cum-Promised Land
The Mormon Graphic Image, 1834-1914 : Cartoons, Caricatures, and Illustrations
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon Ideology of Place : Cosmic Symbolism of the City of Zion, 1830-1846
The Mormon Invasion of Russian America : Dynamics of a Potent Myth
The Mormon Landscape : Existence, Creation, and Perception of a Unique Image in the American West
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Nation and the American Empire
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The Mormon Presence in Canada
The Mormon Priesthood Revelation and the Sao Paulo, Brazil Temple
The Mormon Quest for the Kingdom of God
The Mormon Question Enters National Politics, 1850-1856
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormons
The Mormons
The Mormons
The Mormons in California
The Mormon Village : A Pattern and Technique of Land Settlement
The Mormon Village : Genesis and Antecedents of the City of Zion Plan
The Old Fox : Alpheus Cutler
The Papers of Joseph Smith, Volume 1: Autobiographical and Historical Writings
The Persistence of Mormon Community into the 1990s
The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
The Pioneer Camp of the Saints : The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock
The Political Legacy of Joseph Smith
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Prophet Puzzle : Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith
The Prophet's Letters to his Sons
The Quest for Religious Authority and the Rise of Mormonism
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Rise of a New World Faith
The Rise, Progress, and Travels of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . . . .
The Secular Transition : The Worldwide Growth of Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Adventists
The Settlement of the Brigham Young Estate, 1877-1879
The Sex Radicals in High Victorian America
The Significance of Joseph Smith's 'First Vision' In Mormon Thought
The Story of the Church
The Tragedy of Vietnam and the Responsibility of Mormons
The Transfer of Mormon Culture to Alberta
The Uncertain Dynamics of LDS Expansion, 1950-2020
The Viper on the Hearth : Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy
The Women of Mormondom
The women of Mormonism : Or, The story of polygamy as told by the victims themselves
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Traditional Design in an Industrial Age : Vernacular Architecture in Victorian Utah
Two from Judah Ministering to Joseph
Unto Every Nation : Gospel Light Reaches Every Land
Utah Comes of Age Politically : A Study of the State's Politics in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century
Utah Presidential Elections, 1896-1952
Utah's Educational Innovation : LDS Religion Classes, 1890-1929
Utah's Historic Architecture, 1847-1940 : A Guide
Vietnam : Just a War, or a Just War?
Visions, Saints, and Zion : Children's Literature of the Mormon Movement
Waiting for World's End : Diaries of Wilford Woodruff
Walking in the Sand : A History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ghana
Walter Murray Gibson : The Shepherd Saint of Lanai Revisited
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
Welsh Mormon Writings from 1844-1862 : A Historical Bibliography
Western Expansion and the Politics of Federalism : Indians, Mormons, and Territorial Statehood, 1878-1887
What They Learned from the Mormons
White Roses on the Floor of Heaven : Mormon Women's Popular Theology
Wife No. 19
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
William Harrison Folsom : Pioneer Architect
Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Women as a Force in Utah History
Women, Family, and Utopia : Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons
Women of Covenant : The Story of Relief Society
Women's Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Would-Be Saints : West Africa before the 1978 Priesthood Revelation
Writing 'Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview' (1973) : Context and Reflections, 1998
Writings of Early Latter-day Saints and Their Contemporaries, A Database Collection
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Zion's Rowdies : Growing up on the Mormon Frontier