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Shipps, Jan

Sojourner in the Promised Land : Forty years among the Mormons

Urbana

University of Illinois Press

2000

[2001 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Book]

Compilation of essays previously published about various aspects of Mormon history.

Shipps, Jan
General overviews, 19th-20th centuries (books), American setting
Award Winner

Adam, Eve, the Book of Moses, and the Temple : The Story of Receiving Christ's Atonement
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon
A Foreign Kingdom : Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890
A Joseph Smith for the Twenty-First Century
A Kingdom Transformed : Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church
Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith
American Proto- Zionism and the "Book of Lehi" : Recontextualizing the Rise of Mormonism
American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism, 1867-1940
American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
Ancient Affinities within the LDS Book of Enoch Part One
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
A Personal Odyssey Revisited : My Continuing Encounter with Mormon History
A Statistical Profile of the Mormons : Health, Wealth, and Social Life
A Uniform and Common Recollection : Joseph Smith's Legacy, Polygamy, and the Creation of Mormon Public Memory, 1852-2002
Becoming the American Religion : The Place of Mormonism in the Development of American Religious Historiography
Believing History : Latter-day Saints Essays
Branding Utah : Industrial Tourism in the Postwar American West
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Building the Kingdom : A History of Mormons in America
Camelot's Crucible : The Historiographic Context for Refiner's Fire
Canadian Mormons : History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Celestial Marriage (Eternal and Plural)
Changing Portraits of the Elect Lady : Emma Smith in Non-Mormon, RLDS, and LDS Historiography, 1933-2005
Claiming Christ : A Mormon-Evangelical Debate
Contemporary Mormon Religiosity and the Legacy of "Gathering"
Contesting the LDS Image : The North American Review and the Mormons, 1881-1907
Contests over Latter-day Space : Mormonism's Role within Evangelical Geopolitics as seen through Last-dys Novels
Contingent Citizens: Shifting Perceptions of Latter-day Saints in American Political Culture
Converting the Saints : A Study of Religious Rivalry in America
Correlating Orthodoxy and Style: Institutionally “Approved” Christ-Centered Art in LDS Visual Resources and Meetinghouses, 1990–2021
Could Joseph Smith Have Drawn on Ancient Manuscripts When He Translated the Story of Enoch? : Recent Updates on a Persistent Question
Crossroads of the West
Danish, But Not Lutheran : The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850-1920
Defending the Kingdom, Rethinking the Faith : How Apologetics is Reshaping Mormon Orthodoxy
Defending Zion : George Q. Cannon and the California Mormon Newspaper Wars of 1856-1857
"Dictated by Christ" : Joseph Smith and the Politics of Revelation
Early Mormonism and the Re-enchantment of Antebellum Historical Thought
Early Mormon Missionary Activities in Japan, 1901-1924
Enlisted for the Duration : Discovering the Utah War, Writing At Sword's Point
Exceptionally Queer: Mormon Peculiarity and U.S. Nationalism
Exhibiting Mormonism : The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
Exhibiting Theology : James E. Talmage and Mormon Public Relations, 1915-20
Experiencing Zion: Contemporary Pilgrimage in the Latter-day Saint Tradition
“Faith of Our Fathers”: How a Death Valley Days Western Radio Episode Helped Recover the Memory of Peter Neilson and the St. George Tabernacle Glass
First Vision : Memory and Mormon Origins
From Housewives to Protesters : The Story of Mormons for the Equal Rights Amendment
From Near-Nation to New World Religion
From Peoplehood to Church Membership : Mormonism's Trajectory since World War II
From The God Makers to the Myth Maker : Simultaneous — and Lasting — Challenges to Mormonism's Reputation in the 1980s
From the Outside Looking In : Essays on Mormon History, Theology, and Culture
Gettysburg to Great Salt Lake : George R. Maxwell, Civil War Hero and Federal Marshal among the Mormons
Glorious in Persecution : Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1839–1844
God and Country : Politics in Utah
Had for Good and Evil : 19th-Century Literary Treatments of the Book of Mormon
Heritage and History: A Personal Essay
How Mormon is the Community of Christ?
"How Thankful We Should Be to Know the Truth" : Zebedee Coltrin's Witness of the Heavenly Origins of Temple Ordinances
Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific
In God's Image and Likeness 2: Enoch, Noah, and the Tower of Babel
In God’s Image and Likeness: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Book of Moses
Irenaeus, Joseph Smith, and God-making Heresy
Irish Mormons: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism
Jan Shipps : A Social and Intellectual Portrait
Joseph Smith Jr. : Reappraisals After Two Centuries
Joseph Smith's Gold Plates: A Cultural History
Junius and Joseph : Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the First Mormon Prophet
Latter-day Saints in Washington, D.C. : History, People, and Places
Letters on Mormon Polygamy and Progeny : Eliza R. Snow and Martin Luther Holbrook, 1866-1869
Let Us Reason Together: Essays in Honor of the Life's Work of Robert L. Millet
Mormon Christianity : What Other Christians can learn from the Latter-day Saints
Mormon Feminist Perspectives on the Mormon Digital Awakening : A Study of Identity and Personal Narratives
Mormonism
Mormonism and American Politics (Religion, Culture, and Public Life)
Mormonism and its Historians: The State of the Field
Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and the Problem of Racial Innocence
Mormon Prophetic Rhetoric and the Institution of LDS General Conference
Mormons and Evangelicals in Dialogue: Finding the Right Questions
Mormons and Interfaith Relations
Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America
Mormons, Musical Theatre and Belonging in America
Mormons, Musical Theatre, and Belonging in America
Mormon Stories : A Librarian's Perspective
Mormon Studies : A Bibliographic Essay
Mormon women's identity : the experiences of Hong Kong Chinese Mormon women
Out of Obscurity : Mormonism Since 1945
Parley P. Pratt : The Apostle Paul of Mormonism
Peculiar Portrayals : Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
Perseverance Amid Paradox : The Struggle of the LDS Church in Japan Today
Perspectives on Latter-day Saints Names and Naming: Names, Identity, and Belief
Pioneers in the Attic : Place and Memory Along the Mormon Trail
Proclamation to the People : Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier
Race and the Making of the Mormon People
Race, Latter-day Saint Doctrine, and Athletics at Utah State University, 1960–1961
Raising the Stakes : How Joseph Smith’s First Vision Became All or Nothing
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness
Respecting the LDS/Mormon Minority on
Campus : College Students’ Attitudes Toward
Latter-Day Saints
Restless Pilgrim : Andrew Jenson's Quest for Latter-day Saint History
Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : Contemporary Perspectives
Sacralizing the Secular in Latter-day Saint Salvation Histories
Seeing Things: Technologies of Vision and the Making of Mormonism
"Smoot Smites Smut" : Apostle-Senator Reed Smoot's 1930 Campaign against Obscene Books
Space Matters : A Geographical Context for the Reorganization's Great Transformation
Staging the Saints : Mormonism and American Musical Theater
Standing Apart : Mormon Historical Consciousness And The Concept Of Apostasy
Terrible Revolution : Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse
Testing Stark's Thesis : Is Mormonism the First New World Religion since Islam?
Testing Stark's Thesis : Is Mormonism the First New World Religion Since Islam?
The Council of Fifty in Western History
The Doctrine and Covenants: Revelations in Context: The 37th Annual Brigham Young University Sidney B. Sperry Symposium
The Latter-day Saints, the Doughnut, and Post-Christian Canada
The Long Honeymoon : Jan Shipps Among the Mormons
The Many Bibles of Joseph Smith : Textual, Prophetic, and Scholarly Authority in Early-​ National Bible Culture
The Modern Mormon Church
The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception
The Mormon Jesus : A Biography
The Mormon Menace : Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South
The Mormon Question : Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America
The Mormons and America's Empires
The Mormons of the World : The Meaning of LDS Membership in Central America
The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism
The Peril and Promise of Social Prognosis : O'Dea and the Race Issue
The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle
The Reed Smoot Hearings : A Quest for Legitimacy
The Reluctant Metaphysicians
The September Six and the Struggle for the Soul of Mormonism
The Use of "Lamanite" in Official LDS Discourses
The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations : Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity
The Worlds of Joseph Smith : A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress
The Worldwide Church : Mormonism as a Global Religion
Thomas F. O'Dea and Mormon Intellectual Life : A Reassessment Fifty Years Later
Toward a Mormon Sense of Time
Transformation of the Mormon Culture Region
Turning the Key that Unlocked the Door : Elder David O. McKay's 1921 Apostolic Dedication of the Chinese Realm
Us-Them Tribalism and Early Mormonsim
Utopia, Family, and Authority : The Major Rhetorical Themes of LDS General Conference
Vernacular Mormonism : The Development of Latter-Day Saint Apocalyptic (1830-1930)
What is Mormonism? A Student’s Introduction
What Jane James Saw
When Mormonism Mattered Less in Presidential Politics : George Romney's 1968 Window of Possibilities
Where the World, Babel, and Zion Meet : Redefining the Mormon People at the 1964-65 Mormon Pavilion
Whither Mormon Studies?
Window of Faith : Latter-day Saint Perspectives on World History
“Would to God, Brethren, I Could Tell You Who I Am” : Nineteenth Century Mormonisms and the Apotheosis of Joseph Smith
Writing Mormon History : Historians and Their Books
Your Sister in the Gospel : The Life of Jane Manning James, a Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon

A Book of Commandments for the Government of the Church of Christ
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
A Demographic Portrait of the Mormons, 1830-1980
Adventures of a Church Historian
After 150 Years : The Latter-day Saints in Sesquicentennial Perspective
A Gathering of Saints : A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit
A History of Salt Lake County
A Kingdom Transformed : Themes in the Development of Mormonism
A Light Unto the World
Among the Mormons : Historic Accounts by Contemporary Observers
A Mormon Mother : An Autobiography of Annie Clark Tanner
An Industrial Home for Polygamous Wives
An 'Inside-Outsider' In Zion
An Interview with Sterling M. McMurrin
Another Side of Early Mormonism
A Psychological History of Joseph Smith, Jr., The Founder of Mormonism
Beyond the Stereotypes : Mormon and Non-Mormon Communities in Twentieth Century Mormondom
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations
Brigham Young
Brigham Young and His Mormon Empire
Brigham Young and His Times : A Continuing Force in Mormonism
Brigham Young : The American Moses
Brigham Young, the Colonizer
Brigham Young, the Man and His Work
Brodie Revisited : A Reappraisal
Brother Brigham
Building the City of God : Community and Cooperation among the Mormons
Charting the Missionary Work of William E. McLellin : A Content Analysis
Common Beginnings, Divergent Beliefs
Contemporary Mormonism : Social Science Perspectives
Dangerous History : Laurel Ulrich and Her Mormon Sisters
Deseret News Church Almanac
Difference and Otherness : Mormonism and the American Religious Mainstream
Divergent Paths of the Restoration : A History of the Latter-day Saint Movement
Each Sect the Sect to End all Sects
Early Colonization Patterns
Early Mormonism and the Magic World View
Emergence of a Fundamental : The Expanding Role of Joseph Smith's First Vision in Mormon Religious Thought
Emergence of Mormonism on the American Landscape (1950-1965)
Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History
Encyclopedia of Mormonism : The History, Scripture, Doctrine, and Procedures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Essentials in Church History
Essentials in Church History : A History of the Church from the Birth of Joseph Smith to the Present Time (1922), with Introductory Chapters on the Antiquity of the Gospel and the "Falling Away"
Establishing Zion : The Mormon Church in the American West, 1847-69
Exiles in a Land of Liberty : Mormons in America, 1830-1846
Faithful History : Essays on Writing Mormon History
Family Kingdom
From Housewife to Heretic
From Satyr to Saint : American Attitudes Toward the Mormons, 1860-1960
Gifts of the Spirit : Women's Share
Glory Is A-comin' Soon' : A History of Mormonism in Indiana
Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies
Historical Atlas of Mormonism
History of Sunstone, Chapter 1 : The Scott Kenney Years, Summer 1974-June 1978
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period II : From the Manuscript History of Brigham Young and Other Original Documents
In Mormon Circles : Gentiles, Jack Mormons, and Latter-day Saints
In Search of Ephraim : Traditional Mormon Conceptions of Lineage and Race
In the World : The Diaries of Reed Smoot
'Is Mormonism Christian?' Reflections on a Complicated Question
Joseph Smith and the 1826 Trial : New Evidence and New Difficulties
Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Joseph Smith : the First Mormon
Juanita Brooks : Mormon Woman Historian
Kingdom of the Saints : The Story of Brigham Young and the Mormons
Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Latter-day Sense and Substance
Lost Legacy : The Mormon Office of Presiding Patriarch
Making Saints : In the Early Days and the Latter Days
Manifesto of 1890
Marketing the Mormon Image : An Interview with Wendell J. Ashton
More Faith than Fear : The Los Angeles Stake Story
Mormon and Methodist : Popular Religion in the Crucible of the Free Market
Mormon Answer to Skepticism : Why Joseph Smith Wrote the Book of Mormon
Mormon Doctrine
Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism and the American Frontier
Mormonism and the Negro
Mormonism, An Independent Interpretation
Mormonism in the Nineteen-Seventies : The Popular Perception
Mormonism in Transition : A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930
Mormonism : Shadow or Reality
Mormonism's Negro Doctrine : An Historical Overview
Mormonism : The Story of a New Religious Tradition
Mormonism Unvailed : Or, a Faithful Account of That Singular Imposition and Delusion From Its Rise to the Present Time
Mormon Metamorphosis : The Neglected Story
Mormon Odyssey : The Story of Ida Hunt Udall, Plural Wife
Mormons
Mormons and the Bible : The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion
Mormons, Crickets, and Gulls : A New Look at an Old Story
Mormons in Mexico : The Dynamics of Faith and Culture
Mormon Thunder: A Documentary History of Jedediah Morgan Grant
Mormon Women Have Had the Priesthood since 1843
Mother in Heaven
Myths, Mormons, and Moral Panics : A Critique of Governmental Processes and Attitudes in the Free Exercise Case of Reynolds v. United States
Neither White nor Black : Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church
New Views of Mormon History : A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington
'Nine Children Were Born' : A Historical Problem from the Sugar Creek Episode
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Our Legacy of Faith : A Brief History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Plural Marriage and Mormon Fundamentalism
Political Deliverance : The Mormon Quest for Utah Statehood
Promises Made to the Fathers : Mormon Covenant Organization
Prophet of Blood : The Untold Story of Ervil LeBaron and the Lambs of God
Quest for Empire : The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History
Reflections on the Founding and Purpose of the Mormon History Association, 1965-1983
Religion and Sexuality : The Shakers, the Mormons, and the Oneida Community
Religion and Sexuality : Three American Communal Experiments in the Nineteenth Century
Rocky Mountain Empire : The Latter-Day Saints Today
Roots of Modern Mormonism
Second-Class Saints
Sidney Rigdon : A Portrait of Religious Excess
Sinners and Saints : A Tour across the States, and Round them, with Three Months among the Mormons
Sisters in Spirit : Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective
Some Themes of Counter-Subversion : An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature
Statehood for Utah : A Different Path
Strangers in Paradox : Explorations in Mormon Theology
Sugar House Ward : A Latter-day Saint Congregation
Take Up Your Mission: Mormon Colonizing Along the Little Colorado River, 1870-1900
'Tell It All' : The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism
Ten Years in Camelot : A Personal Memoir
The American Quest for the Primitive Church
The Angel and the Beehive : The Mormon Struggle with Assimilation
The Awesome Power of Sex : The Polemical Campaign against Mormon Polygamy
The Book of Mormon in a Biblical Culture
The Centennial of Mormonism
The Changing Image of Mormonism
The Changing Image of Mormonism in Periodical Literature
The Church in the Twentieth Century
The Colesville, New York, 'Exodus' Seen from Two Documentary Perspectives
The Constitution of the State of Deseret
The Council of Fifty and Its Members, 1844 to 1945
The Darker Side of Virtue : Corruption, Scandal, and the Mormon Empire
The Education of a BYU Professor
The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830-1841
The First Months of Mormonism : A Contemporary View By Rev. Diedrich Willers
The Garden of Utah
The German-Speaking Immigration to Utah, 1850-1950
The Heavens Resound : A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838
The Historical Relationship of Mormon Women and Priesthood
The Journals of William E. McLellin 1831-1836
The Latter-day Saints
The Legacy of Conquest : The Unbroken Past of the American West
'The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect'
The Millenarian World of Early Mormonism
The Mormon Corporate Empire
The Mormon Experience : A History of the Latter-day Saints
The Mormons
The Mormons and the Bible in the 1830s
The Mormons and the Law : The Polygamy Cases
The Mormons and the Law : The Polygamy Cases
The Mormons in Politics, 1839-1844
The Mormons in Politics : The First Hundred Years
The Mormons' Progress
The Mountain Meadows Massacre
The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Who Were Guilty of the Crime?
The New Mormon History : Revisionist Essays on the Past
The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith
The Principle Revoked : A Closer Look at the Demise of Plural Marriage
The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith
The Public Image of Sen. Reed Smoot, 1902-32
The Reality of the Restoration and the Restoration Ideal in the Mormon Tradition
The Refiner's Fire : The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844
The Reorganized Church in Illinois, 1852-82 : Search for Identity
The Restoration of All Things
The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith : A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants
The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The Role of Christian Primitivism in the Origin and Development of the Mormon Kingdom, 1830-1844
The Scattering of the Gathered and the Gathering of the Scattered
The Shipps Odyssey in Retrospect
The Story of 'Mormonism' and The Philosophy of "Mormonism"
The Story of the Church
The Story of the Latter-day Saints
The Story of the Mormons : From the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901
The Swearing Elders : Some Reflections
The Swearing Elders : The First Generation of Mormon Intellectuals
The Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion
Things in Heaven and Earth : The Life and Times of Wilford Woodruff, a Mormon Prophet
Those Amazing Mormons' : The Media's Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority
Those Who Would Be Leaders (Offshoots of Mormonism)
Thoughts on Faith and History
Three Frontiers : Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900
Troped by the Mormons : The Persistence of 19th-century Mormon Stereotypes in Contemporary Detective Fiction
Under the Prophet in Utah : The National Menace of a Political Priestcraft
Unto the Islands of the Sea : A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific
Utah and the Mormon Problem
Utah's Heritage
Utah's History
Victims : The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case
Vital Statistics
Waiting for World's End : Diaries of Wilford Woodruff
Wayward Saints : The Godbeites and Brigham Young
Wealth and Power in American Zion
Wife No. 19
Wilford Woodruff's Journals
Women and Authority : Re-emerging Mormon Feminism
Women's Voices: An Untold History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900