Item Detail
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30844
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1
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8
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English
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Heritage and History: A Personal Essay
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Journal of Mormon History
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2015
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41
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1
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Layton, Utah
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Mormon History Association
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3-13
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"IN A WITTY AND INSIGHTFUL ESSAY published in Dialogue in 1982, Jan Shipps described her position as a Methodist committed to the study of Mormonism. After years of studying the Saints, she was often mistaken for one of them. Church leaders called her the 'beloved Gentile' or the “Thomas L. Kane of the twentieth century,” while her colleagues in Indiana worried that she had “gone native.” She admitted to having abandoned “the emotional as well as professional safety” of distance by becoming so close to the culture she researched. But she insisted that her peculiar stance made her a better historian. Although distrusted by “active, intense, serious, literal-minded Mormons” at one end of the spectrum and “active, intense, serious, literal-minded anti-Mormons” at the other, she had been embraced by a remarkable “gathered community”—the members of the Mormon History Assoc. Through them, she had become an 'inside-outsider in Zion.'"[Author]
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