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English
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Mormon Studies as an Academic Discipline
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The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
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Cambridge, England
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Oxford University Press
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93-106
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Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith, ordered scribes, historians, and church members to keep records by divine injunction, leading to a sizeable collection documenting the institutional management and growth of the early church. This chapter charts the evolution of the study of Mormonism from its beginnings to its current state. Evolving from its nineteenth-century documentary roots, important attempts were later made to synthesize church history into a manageable narrative that moved the study of Mormon history in new directions. The 1930s to the 1960s saw a period of professionalization that culminated in “New Mormon History,” with significant scholarly works produced inside and outside of the church’s official history department. Only recently has Mormon Studies moved fully into the academy, augmented by a range of methodologies and interdisciplinary work. What can result from this fresh approach is an understanding of the movement’s complexities and the proliferation of multiple Mormon studies.
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A Firm Foundation : Church Organization and Administration
All Abraham's Children : Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage
A Study of the LDS Church Historian's Office, 1830-1900
Believing History : Latter-day Saints Essays
Bernard DeVoto and the Mormon Tradition
Early Mormon Historiography : Writing the History of the Mormons, 1830-1858
Excavating Mormon Pasts : The New Historiography of the Last Half Century
Faithful History : Essays on Writing Mormon History
Idols of the Tribes : An Intellectual and Critical History of 19th and 20th Century Mormon Studies
Joseph Smith : Rough Stone Rolling
More Wives than One : Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Mormon Administrative and Organizational History : A Source Essay
Mormon Americana : A Guide to Sources and Collections in the United States
Mormon Historiography
Mormon History
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormons and Their Historians
Mormons Study "Abroad" : Latter-day Saints in American Higher Education, 1870-1940
Richard Lyman Bushman, the Story of Joseph Smith and Mormonism, and the New Mormon History
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Studies in Mormon History 1830-1997 : An Indexed Bibliography
Ten Years in Camelot : A Personal Memoir
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Founding of the LDS Church Historical Department, 1972
'The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect'
The Mormon Hierarchy : Extensions of Power
The Mormon Hierarchy : Origins of Power
The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith
The New Mormon History
The New Mormon History : Revisionist Essays on the Past
The Politics of American Religious Identity : The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Prophet Joseph : Essays on the Life and Mission of Joseph Smith
The Study of Mormonism : A Growing Interest in Academia
The Uncommercial Traveler
The Year of Decision, 1846
Understanding the Book of Mormon : A Reader's Guide
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