Item Detail
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30836
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3
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English
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Performing Mormon History
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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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204-208
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"AS A THEATRE SCHOLAR and practitioner, my studies in traditional Mormon history have admittedly been secondary to my primary interest in American religious performance traditions. What I have seen of Mormon history, both in writing and at the 2007 Mormon History Association conference, suggests that it mirrors the path of general history. Early works evidence an obsession with origins and a teleological outlook of the development of religious practice and cultural arts divided into two distinct camps: apologists and skeptics. Jan Shipps suggests that New Mormon History reconciles this division in some ways as an “intellectual and historiographical movement that carried the story of the Latter-day Saints into the cultural mainstream.” While the New Mormon History may have found a place between apologists and skeptics, however, it remains a study of origins, documents, and text." [Author]