Item Detail
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30832
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1
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4
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English
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Mormon Cultural Studies
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Journal of Mormon History
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2009
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35
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3
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Layton, Utah
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Mormon History Association
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218-223
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"FIRST, THE OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMERS. I am not a historian, so I can’t speak to specific issues of historiography. I am also (relatively) young and so in a real sense the New Mormon History in all its iterations and controversies is history to me. This point, however, is important when considering how scholarship on Mormon history and topics will develop in coming years. Those of us doing research now will encounter the New Mormon History as a baseline for our own work and will be at least as much influenced by the theories, imperatives, and contingencies of scholarship in our own disciplines as by the particulars of previous controversies. At the same time, we of the postmodern generation are acutely aware of our own situatedness, and the bifurcated nature of the secular-faithful stances will continue to be an issue, at least on a personal level." [Author]