Item Detail
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6546
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5
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33
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English
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Mormon Memory, Mormon Myth, and Mormon History
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Journal of Mormon History
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Spring 1995
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21
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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1-24
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[1996 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Article] Memory, myth, and history are closely related to each other in the respect that they are essentially "stories that explain how things got to be the way they are." The scientific and progressive modes of writing history are described. The critical role that historians play in the search for truth is essayed. LDS and RLDS historians generally tend to reconstruct their visions of the past in harmony with their institution's perception of its past. Those historians who veer from the accepted institutional view of the past risk condemnation or excommunication, e.g., Michael Quinn. He argues that the Mormon community and identity is enriched and made healthier by the divergency and diversity of views expressed by historians. However, the influence of the voices of those (like Quinn) who are exiled from the group becomes minimized or nullified. Nonetheless, he argues that there are many LDS and RLDS perceptions of the past that require debunking. He enjoins Mormon historians not to "shrink from challenges of interpreting the past because of fear." He asserts that historians have an obligation to "expand the perceptions of a group beyond its digested, constructed memory of the past."
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An Ambivalent Rejection : Baptism for the Dead and the Reorganized Church Experience
'A New and Everlasting Covenant' : An Approach to the Theology of Joseph Smith
Baptism for the Dead : Comparing RLDS and LDS Perspectives
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
Entre Nous : An Intimate History of MHA
Faithful History : Essays on Writing Mormon History
God and Man in History
'God's Base of Operations' : Mormon Variations on the American Sense of Mission
Historiography and the New Mormon History : A Historian's Perspective
Illusions of Innocence : Protestant Primitivism in America, 1630-1875
In Search of Security : The Mormons and the Kingdom of God on Earth, 1830-1844
Let Contention Cease : The Dynamics of Dissent in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Mormons and Their Historians
Nauvoo : Kingdom on the Mississippi
Nineteenth-Century Mormons : The New Israel
Return to Carthage: Writing the History of Joseph Smith's Martyrdom
Rocky Mountain Empire : The Latter-Day Saints Today
Scholarly Studies of Mormonism in the Twentieth Century
Survey : The Historiography of Mormonism
The Challenge of Historical Consciousness : Mormon History and the Encounter with Secular Modernity
'The Mantle Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect'
The Mormon Past : Revealed or Revisited?
The New Mormon History
The New Mormon History
The 'New Mormon History' Reassessed in Light of Recent Books on Joseph Smith and Mormon Origins
The New Mormon History : Revisionist Essays on the Past
The Radical Reformation of the Reorganization of the Restoration : Recent Changes in the RLDS Understanding of the Book of Mormon
The Reliability of Joseph Smith's History
The Ritualization of Mormon History
The Writing of Joseph Smith's History
Toward a New Mormon History : An Examination of the Literature of the Latter-day Saints in the Far West
'What Has Become of Our Fathers?' Baptism for the Dead at Nauvoo
Writing the Mormon Past