Item Detail
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8385
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6
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12
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English
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Bearding Leone and Others in the Heartland of Mormon Historiography
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Journal of Mormon History
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1981
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8
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Mormon History Association
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79-97
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DePillis offers a critique of both Leone and LDS historiography in general. On Leone: 'THE ROOTS OF MODERN MORMONISM is one of the few original historical analyses of Mormonism ever produced, even though it is seriously marred by a lack of internal unity, by poor documentation, and by patches of high fog. Leone also delivers himself of a few bold but simplistic statements, partly, I think, for rhetorical effect. All in all, Leone's ability to pick significant questions and deal with them imaginatively, together with his intellectual keenness, saves his book from its defects.' (p. 89) On 'insider' Mormon historians: 'This for-or-against mentality permeates the consciousness of everyone connected with Mormon studies. It helps explain why the historiography of Mormonism, vast as it is, contains little worth reading.' (p. 91) Leone is strongly critical of LDS historians for their preoccupation with 'truth'--often unconscously conveyed. More: 'It can be argued that it has been outsiders, not Mormon insiders, study of Mormonism. During the last forty years these outsiders have helped move Mormon studies away from the central theme of for-or-against toward the scholar's goal of true understanding.' (p. 91) DePillis findes only 'small' truth in Shipp's new world revelation on blacks and the correction of the Book of Mormon text on 'white and delightsome' suggest an accommodation that undermines the 'fourth' religious concept. Final statement: 'When the Saints finally make non-bowdlerized texts available and relinquish the primacy of sacred history,' then the process will be complete. And the historiography of Mormonism will have arrived in the right place.' (p. 97)
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