Item Detail
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30837
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1
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English
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Restorationist Studies : The Future of the New 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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200-204
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"A RECENT REVIEW OF Philip Goff and Paul Harvey’s revisionist textbook, Themes in Religion and American Culture(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), concluded that Mormons have become the big winners in current American religious scholarship. In nearly every thematic chapter in Goff and Harvey’s volume, for instance, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received at least passing mention, if not significant attention. Like the “evangelical thesis” that swept the field of American history in the 1980s, linking evangelicals to nearly everything that became “American” in the present, Mormons are now posed as the quintessential modern Western religious faith, made in America and exported to the world.With only slight satire, “studying Mormons” could be added as one of the entries on the popular blog “Stuff White People Like,” along with the recent entries on “statistics” and “girls with bangs.”22++Studying Mormons, at least for the present, is hot." [Author]