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Simpson, Thomas W. "Mormons Study “Abroad“: Brigham Young's Romance with American Higher Education, 1867-1877." Church History 76, no. 4 (2007): 778–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640700500055.

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Because Mormons could never fully realize their separatist dreams of a visible Zion in North America, the history of Mormonism has involved highly complex contacts and negotiations with non-Mormons. In their attempts to convert, resist, or appease outsiders, Mormons have engaged in a distinctive dialectic of secrecy and self-disclosure, of esoteric rites and public relations. The result has been an extended process of controlled modernization.Narratives of this process have focused on the 1890 “Manifesto” of LDS President and Prophet Wilford Woodruff, the momentous declaration that Latter-day

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Simpson, Thomas W. "The Death of Mormon Separatism in American Universities, 1877–1896." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 22, no. 2 (2012): 163–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2012.22.2.163.

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AbstractThe transformation of Mormonism from a small, persecuted sect into an established, global faith has attracted scholarly attention for decades. By all accounts, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were critical for the church's evolution and modernization. The rapidity of the change, however, leaves nagging questions. After years of costly, principled resistance, how could Mormons, with any semblance of dignity and self-respect, suddenly embrace the institutions and values of their tormentors? How did members of the nineteenth century's “most despised large group” become s

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Powell, Randy. "Social Welfare at the End of the World: How the Mormons Created an Alternative to the New Deal and Helped Build Modern Conservatism." Journal of Policy History 31, no. 04 (2019): 488–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030619000198.

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Abstract:It is common for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be considered one of the most conservative religious groups in the United States. What is less well understood is as to when the relationship between Mormonism and American conservatism began. While some historians point to the social upheavals in the 1960s and 1970s as the glue that united Mormons and conservatives, the connection began decades earlier during the Great Depression. Leaders of the Mormon Church interpreted Roosevelt’s New Deal as the fulfillment of eschatological prophecy. Envisioning themse

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Decoo, Ellen, and Chia Longman. "Gesprekken met mormoonse vrouwen in Vlaanderen." Religie & Samenleving 16, no. 3 (2021): 226–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.54195/rs.11460.

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Latter-day Saints (Mormons) living outside the ‘Mormon Culture Region’ in the Western United States usually form small minorities. As Mormonism upholds conservative gender norms, we investigated how a sample of thirteen Mormon women living in Flanders (Northern part of Belgium) experienced their relation with the Flemish secular-liberal environment. The research used the framework of structural ambivalence to assess how these women cope with conflicting norms on marriage age, male-only priesthood and familial dilemmas. Results show how respondents use arguments and strategies to handle or to a

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Morris, Paul. "Polynesians and Mormonism." Nova Religio 18, no. 4 (2014): 83–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2015.18.4.83.

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Polynesia has a particular place in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). The region that heralded the Church’s first overseas missions includes seven of the world’s top ten nations in terms of the proportion of Mormons in the population, and it is home to six Mormon temples. The Polynesian Latter-day Saint population is increasing in both percentage and absolute numbers, and peoples in the Pacific “islands of the sea” continue to play a central role in the Mormon missionary imaginary. This article explores Polynesians in the LDS Church and critically eva

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Bennett, James B. "“Until This Curse of Polygamy Is Wiped Out”: Black Methodists, White Mormons, and Constructions of Racial Identity in the Late Nineteenth Century." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 21, no. 2 (2011): 167–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2011.21.2.167.

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AbstractDuring the final quarter of the nineteenth century, black members of the Methodist Episcopal (ME) Church published a steady stream of anti-Mormonism in their weekly newspaper, the widely read and distributedSouthwestern Christian Advocate. This anti-Mormonism functioned as way for black ME Church members to articulate their denomination's distinctive racial ideology. Black ME Church members believed that their racially mixed denomination, imperfect though it was, offered the best model for advancing black citizens toward equality in both the Christian church and the American nation. Mo

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Callahan, Clark, Hannah Chudleigh, and Tom Robinson. "Political Media Narratives and Mormon Perspectives of Mitt Romney." Journal of Communication and Religion 42, no. 2 (2019): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jcr20194229.

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Recently, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has experienced unprecedented public attention in what has been termed “The Mormon Moment.” While there has been an increased media focus on the religion, research into how Mormons perceive that attention is lacking, especially regarding the attention directed toward recent political candidate Mitt Romney. The purpose of this research is to fill the gap by analyzing the Mormon community’s perspectives of Mitt Romney. The current study uses Q-methodology and personal interviews to access Mormon’s perceptions of the media and politics. Re

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O'Brien, Hazel. "The Marginality of ‘Irish Mormonism’." Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) 21 (January 8, 2020): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v21i0.40.

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This article builds upon existing literature which demonstrates the complex interconnections of Catholicism, Irishness, and whiteness in the Republic of Ireland. Using this multifaceted inter-relationship between religious, national, and racial identities as its starting point, this article analyses negotiations of Irishness, community, and belonging amongst adherents of Mormonism in Ireland. This article firstly argues that as members of a minority religion Mormons in Ireland of all backgrounds are stigmatised and marginalised from Irish narratives of ‘belonging’. Secondly, this article

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Ormsbee, J. Todd. "‘Like a Cord Snapping’: Toward a grounded theory of how devout Mormons leave the LDS Church." Critical Research on Religion 8, no. 3 (2020): 297–317. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050303220924096.

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This study describes the cultural, cognitive, social, and emotional work that once-devout members of the LDS Church must engage in to leave the church and divest themselves of Mormon culture. A Grounded Theory approach with a multi-modal memoing process showed that, for the devout, leaving the LDS Church and Mormon culture is not a singular event, but rather a process of gradual transformation that requires time and effort, passing through a series of punctuating events. Formerly devout ex-Mormons had to confront various problems, including the LDS Church’s truth claims and ethical contradicti

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Brandley, ben, and Liahnna Stanley. "Muddying the Pioneer Past-Present." Rhetoric, Politics & Culture 2, no. 1 (2022): 61–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.14321/rpc.2.1.0061.

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Abstract This essay explores how rhetorics of whiteness and settler colonialism operate within tours performed at two official Church Historic Sites—The Mormon Battalion Center and the Mormon Trails Center. Using settler colonialism as a theoretical framework, we offer three examples of how tours given at these sites reify settler colonial logics including object representations of family relationalities, the trading of a woven basket, and an interactive narrated map detailing U.S.-Mormon government and war policies. We present a critical case for how the Church does not just merely erase nor

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Prilutskiy, V. V. "THE FIRST INFORMATION ABOUT MORMONS IN THE RUSSIAN PERIODICALS (1850–1857)." Vestnik Bryanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 08, no. 01 (2024): 77–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.22281/2413-9912-2024-08-01-77-83.

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The article examines the first information about the Mormons (the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) in Russia, contained in messages, notes and articles in the periodical press (1850–1857). The unique phenomenon of the Mormons and their successful development of vast territories in the Great Salt Lake and Rocky Mountains attracted the attention of contemporaries not only in the United States, but also in other countries. An analysis of information about the religious organization, its features, main ideas, emergence, history and prospects contained in the Russian periodicals was car

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Anoszko, Sergiusz. "Teologia misji i ruch misyjny w nauczaniu wczesnego Kościoła Jezusa Chrystusa Świętych w Dniach Ostatnich (mormonów)." Annales Missiologici Posnanienses 22 (August 4, 2023): 99–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/amp.2017.22.8.

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Mormons are particularly concerned about missionary work, putting much effort into converting non-Mormons into their faith. The proposed text attempts to focus on the goals of the missionary activity of this quasi-Christian new religious movement, to explain the processes by which the Mormons formed their view of conversion and how to achieve them in daily life during missionary work at the early stages of the history of the denomination. An analysis of the idea of mission in the teaching and practice of the Church of Joseph Smith allows us to gain an understanding of the general theological a

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Hernandez, Daniel. "A Divine Rebellion: Indigenous Sacraments among Global “Lamanites”." Religions 12, no. 4 (2021): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12040280.

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This essay engages with some of the experiences and metaphysics of Indigenous peoples who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism/LDS/the Church) by responding to their structural construction as “Lamanites”. Lamanites have been interpreted within Mormonism to be ancestors of various global Indigenous peoples of the “Americas” and “Polynesia”. This essay reveals how contemporary Indigenous agency by presumed descendants of the Lamanites, who embrace both an Indigenous and a Mormon identity, shifts the cosmology of the Church. Interpretations of TheBook of Morm

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Forsberg Jr., Clyde. "Esotericism and the “Coded Word” in Mormonism." International Journal for the Study of New Religions 2, no. 1 (2011): 29–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v2i1.29.

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In the history of American popular religion, the Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, have undergone a series of paradigmatic shifts in order to join the Christian mainstream, abandoning such controversial core doctrines and institutions as polygamy and the political kingdom of God. Mormon historians have played an important role in this metamorphosis, employing a version (if not perversion) of the Church-Sect Dichotomy to change the past in order to control the future, arguing, in effect, that founder Joseph Smith Jr’s erstwhile magical beliefs and practices gave way to a more “mature” and bible-ba

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Crosby, Richard Benjamin. ""Which is the Wisest Course?"." Journal of Communication and Religion 34, no. 1 (2011): 1–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jcr20113411.

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This article enters the conversation about religion and communication at the crossing of two important but under-traveled paths: prophetic rhetoric and Mormonism. Mormon polygamy has a rich and controversial history that includes a series of public arguments and internal debates over how to navigate the historically radical religion through the political landscape of nineteenth-century mainstream America. Wilford Woodruff, president and prophet of the church when the government compelled the Mormons to stop the practice of polygamy, needed to end "plural marriage" without undermining the vital

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Dransfield, Scott. "Charles Dickens and the Victorian “Mormon Moment”." Religion and the Arts 17, no. 5 (2013): 489–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-12341297.

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Abstract The growth of Mormonism in England in the middle of the nineteenth century presented a number of challenges relating to the cultural status of the new religion and its followers. Charles Dickens’s “uncommercial traveller” sketch describing a group of 800 Mormon converts preparing to emigrate to the United States, “Bound for the Great Salt Lake,” represents the challenge effectively. While Mormons were quickly identified by their heresies and by those qualities that characterized cultural and religious otherness, they were also observed to possess traits of Englishness, reflecting the

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Grow, Matthew J. "The Whore of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations: Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity." Church History 73, no. 1 (2004): 139–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640700097869.

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In 1846, Oran Brownson, the older brother of the famed Catholic convert Orestes A. Brownson, penned a letter to his brother recounting a dream Orestes had shared with him much earlier. In the dream, Orestes, Oran, and a third brother, Daniel, were “traveling a road together.” “You first left the road then myself and it remains to be seen whether Daniel will turn out of the road (change his opinion),” Oran wrote. At approximately the same period in which Orestes converted to Catholicism “because no other church possessed proper authority,” Oran joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sa

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Hales, Scott. "“This Earth Was Once a Garden Place”: Millennial Utopianism in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Poetry." Religion and the Arts 17, no. 4 (2013): 381–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-12341285.

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Abstract In preparation for Christ’s Second Coming, nineteenth-century Mormons worked tirelessly to build Zion, a holy city where they could weather the latter-days and plan for the Millennium. Among those who contributed their talents to Zion were poets who set their millennial longing in verse. Their body of work shows how early Mormons drew upon the Bible, new Mormon doctrines, and existing poetic forms to create a literary complement to the developing Mormon eschatology. It also shows how the Mormon concept of Zion evolved over time as historical circumstances necessitated doctrinal adapta

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Prilutskiy, V. V. "JAMES STRANG (1813–1856) AND THE «MORMON KINGDOM» ON THE GREAT LAKES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE XIX-TH CENTURY." Vestnik Bryanskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 08, no. 03 (2024): 84–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.22281/2413-9912-2024-08-03-84-90.

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The article examines the activities of James Jesse Strang (1813-1856), the self-proclaimed prophet of the «Latter-day Saints», the leader of one of the major movements in early Mormonism, and his followers – the Strangites. A unique religious and socio-political phenomenon: the proclamation of the monarchy in the United States remains practically unexplored in Russian historiography. This article helps fill the gap. The analysis of information about the religious movement of the Strangites, its origin, features, main ideas, major milestones of history contained in Mormon documents, materials o

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Reesman, Jeanne Campbell. "The Mountain Meadows Massacre, as Told by Mark Twain and Jack London." Mark Twain Annual 20 (November 1, 2022): 9–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.20.1.0009.

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Abstract This article addresses Mark Twain’s as well as Jack London’s writing about the infamous Mountain Meadows Massacre against settlers moving west; this occurred in newly colonized Mormon land in Utah. The Mormons used local Indians as scapegoats, but the survivors pinned the event solely on Mormon shoulders. Interestingly, in contrast to most other writers and journalists, neither Twain in Roughing It nor London in The Star Rover simply paints a picture of Mormon atrocity, but instead tries to enter the minds of the persecuted Mormons as well.

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Palomo, Johannah. "Irish Mormons: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism." Mormon Studies Review 12 (January 1, 2025): 151–56. https://doi.org/10.5406/21568030.12.22.

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Lundahl, Craig R. "A Nonscience Forerunner to Modern Near-Death Studies in America." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 28, no. 1 (1994): 63–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/6etm-wday-y33f-fn4n.

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This article presents information on a nonscience forerunner, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to both the work of the original psychical researchers and modern near-death studies. It examines Joseph Smith's early knowledge of the death experience and his teachings on death, five historical Mormon NDE accounts predating 1864 and two NDEs of young people in the late 1800s, other Mormon teachings on the death experience before 1886, and the Mormon sources of knowledge on the death experience and the NDE prior to scientific investigations. The study shows Bible passages and Mormon

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Leamaster, Reid J., and Mangala Subramaniam. "Career and/or Motherhood? Gender and the LDS Church." Sociological Perspectives 59, no. 4 (2016): 776–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0731121415603852.

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This article examines the ways in which the gendered religious schemas pertaining to career and motherhood are set up and reinforced by the Latter Day Saints (LDS) Church and how these schemas affect the everyday lives of Mormons. We show how gender, class, and region intersect and impact how religious individuals interpret gendered religious schemas. Analysis of qualitative interview data shows that for very religious men and women, the gendered cultural schemas of work and motherhood are distinct and tend to constrain women. Considering the intersections of class with gender, the analysis sh

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Talbot, Christine. "MORMONS, GENDER, AND THE NEW COMMERCIAL ENTERTAINMENTS, 1890–1920." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16, no. 3 (2017): 302–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s153778141700007x.

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In the early twentieth century, new forms of commercial entertainment—dance halls, movie theaters, amusement halls and parks, saloons and the like—emerged in urban areas, providing new ways for young Americans to amuse themselves. This essay explores the distinctive Mormon response to these new forms of amusement. Mormon leaders took up other progressive reformers’ concerns about early twentieth-century amusements, but refracted them through a distinctively Mormon lens that was at once gendered and uniquely religious. Mormons rejected the progressive double standard that sought to constrain wo

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Mueller, Max Perry. "The “Negro Problem,” the “Mormon Problem,” and the Pursuit of “Usefulness” in the White American Republic." Church History 88, no. 4 (2019): 978–1012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640719002488.

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By examining Booker T. Washington's (little studied) relationship with Mormon elites, this article introduces the category of “usefulness” to scholars who investigate how racially and religiously marginalized Americans have sought acceptance in the “white American republic.” Washington's 1913 visit to Utah was the high point in a decade-long public campaign of mutual admiration. Washington and the Mormons’ high regard for each other—an aberration in much of black-Mormon relations—was based on similar histories of discrimination at the hands of white Protestant Americans. It was also based on s

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Beckstead, Robert, Bryce Blankenagel, Cody Noconi, and Michael Winkelman. "The entheogenic origins of Mormonism: A working hypothesis." Journal of Psychedelic Studies 3, no. 2 (2019): 212–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.020.

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Historical documents relating to early Mormonism suggest that Joseph Smith (1805–1844) employed entheogen-infused sacraments to fulfill his promise that every Mormon convert would experience visions of God and spiritual ecstasies. Early Mormon scriptures and Smith’s teachings contain descriptions consistent with using entheogenic material. Compiled descriptions of Joseph Smith’s earliest visions and early Mormon convert visions reveal the internal symptomology and outward bodily manifestations consistent with using an anticholinergic entheogen. Due to embarrassing symptomology associated with

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Phillips, Rick. "Rethinking the International Expansion of Mormonism." Nova Religio 10, no. 1 (2006): 52–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2006.10.1.52.

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ABSTRACT: The rapid international expansion of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter——day Saints——the LDS, or Mormon Church——prompts some sociologists to claim that Mormonism is an incipient world religion. This expansion also serves as the basis for several sociological theories of church growth. However, these observations and theories rely on an uncritical acceptance of the LDS Church's membership statistics. This article uses census data from nations around the world to argue that Mormon Church membership claims are inflated. I argue that Mormonism is a North American church with tendrils i

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Launius, Roger D. "Mormons and mormonism in U.S. government documents: A bibliography." Government Publications Review 17, no. 5 (1990): 468–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9390(90)90060-q.

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Kline, Caroline. "Review of Irish Mormons: Reconciling Identity in Global Mormonism." Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association 2, no. 1 (2024): 117–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.54587/jmssa.0206.

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Cheng, Hongmeng. "A Review of Mormon Studies in China." Religions 12, no. 6 (2021): 375. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12060375.

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Mormon studies in China began in the early 1990s and can be divided into three phases between the years of 2004 and 2017. The first Master’s and Doctoral theses on Mormonism were both published in 2004, and journal articles have also been increasing in frequency since then. The year of 2012 saw a peak, partly because Mormon Mitt Romney won the Republican nomination for the 2012 US presidential election. In 2017, a national-level project, Mormonism and its Bearings on Current Sino-US Relations, funded by the Chinese government, was launched. However, Mormon studies in China is thus far still in

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Elisha, Omri. "Sustaining Charisma Mormon Sectarian Culture and the Struggle for Plural Marriage, 1852––1890." Nova Religio 6, no. 1 (2002): 45–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2002.6.1.45.

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Through the latter half of the nineteenth century, Mormons in the United States engaged in a highly charged struggle to defend a religious principle——plural marriage (polygyny)——against political and cultural opposition among non-Mormon groups and institutions. The practice of plural marriage, however, remained statistically rare, hierarchical, and rooted in Victorian marriage and family norms. Moreover, the struggle took place as Mormon communities and businesses gradually assimilated to mainstream institutional and political economics. This article asks why, in light of such ambiguities, the

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Baibakova, Larisa V. "THE BATTLE FOR THE PROMISED LAND. MORMONS’ ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A THEOCRATIC STATE IN THE AMERICAN WEST." RSUH/RGGU Bulletin. "Literary Theory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies" Series, no. 1 (2025): 182–90. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2025-1-182-190.

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Western colonization played a huge role in the formation of the American state. The development of a border strip of vacant land in the interior of the country, called the “frontier”, had created a kind of socio-cultural environment, different from the habitable and civilized Northeast. A specific feature of the social evolution of the West was the attempt by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (briefly called Mormons) to create the theocratic state of Deseret in the second half of the 19th century. In a vast territory, stretching from Western Colorado to the southern coast of Cali

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Peck, Steven L. "Latter-Day Saint Theology of a Material, Embodied Deity vis-ä-vis Evolutionary Conceptions of Embodiment, Agency, and Matter." Journal for the Study of Religion 35, no. 1 (2022): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2021/v35n1a1.

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Do Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have anything to contribute to theological conversations about the nature of God? The article explores this question through the lens of Latter-day Saint conceptions of matter and agential embodiment that may be useful in generalizing material theologies and provide a resource for other material-based views of deity. The argument will examine the question by first exploring the nature of agency articulated from three perspectives: 1) Process thinking in the life sciences; 2) materialist feminism; and 3) evolutionary biology. The article then suggests that the mat

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Peck, Steven L. "Latter-Day Saint Theology of a Material, Embodied Deity vis-ä-vis Evolutionary Conceptions of Embodiment, Agency, and Matter." Journal for the Study of Religion 35, no. 1 (2022): 1–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n1a1.

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Do Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have anything to contribute to theological conversations about the nature of God? The article explores this question through the lens of Latter-day Saint conceptions of matter and agential embodiment that may be useful in generalizing material theologies and provide a resource for other material-based views of deity. The argument will examine the question by first exploring the nature of agency articulated from three perspectives: 1) Process thinking in the life sciences; 2) materialist feminism; and 3) evolutionary biology. The article then suggests that the mat

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Enrique, Romerales Espinosa. "Searching for the New Zion. Salt Lake or the Invisible City." Philosophical Readings VIII, no. 3 (2017): 186–95. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293071.

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In Mormonism the idea of Zion was prominent from the beginning. Joseph Smith was initially looking for an American city to become the City of God, the New Zion. Afterwards, he aimed at founding a brand new city. Finally, after several unsuccessful attempts and Smith’s death, Brigham Young realized the Mormons needed a whole new land, with its capital located beyond the reach of hostile Gentiles. Thus, Mormons marched far away to the West, and Salt Lake City was set up, planned and developed. But the idea of Salt Lake-Zion involved a contradiction. It should be a pure, organized, harmonious, sa

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Stuart, Joseph R. "“A More Powerful Effect upon the Body”: Early Mormonism's Theory of Racial Redemption and American Religious Theories of Race." Church History 87, no. 3 (2018): 768–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640718001580.

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This paper examines Joseph Smith's construction of a racialized theology, which drew upon conceptions of Abrahamic lineage and the possibility of “racial redemption” for peoples of African descent through conversion to Mormonism. This ran against the grain of his Protestant and Catholic contemporaries’ religious understandings of race. He expanded upon earlier iterations of his ideas with the introduction of new rituals and liturgy related to LDS temples. Smith's wife may have invited a person of African descent to participate in this new liturgy before his murder in June 1844. The views he ex

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Prilutskiy, Vitaliy. "The Final Period of Mormon Migration and the Development of Utah (1869—1911)." OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii" 2022, no. 2-1 (2022): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.31166/voprosyistorii202202statyi11.

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The article examines the last stages of migration to Utah of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Mormons (1869-1890 and 1890-1911). It is shown that Utah became the center of Mormon migration and colonization, where waves of newly converted Mormons from Western Europe, Canada and the eastern states of the United States rushed. The study made it possible to analyze the ideological rationale for resettlement, the ethnic composition of the settlers, the specifics of the development of the lands of the American West, the peculiarities of the migration of the Saints across

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Freeman, Erik J. "Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France." Journal of Mormon History 49, no. 3 (2023): 152–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/24736031.49.3.08.

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Reed, Sarah C. "The Cosmopolitan Saint: Nephi Anderson’s Scandinavian-American Mormon Identity." Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 25 (December 1, 2018): 14–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/scancan150.

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ABSTRACT: Norwegian immigrant Nephi Anderson (1865-1923) was Mormonism’s first popular author and wrote a regional bestseller that stayed in print over 100 years. Despite the fact that many of his works have Scandinavian characters and international settings, scholars have considered Anderson’s texts primarily for their Mormonism and not in terms of his ethnic identity or portrayal of an international church. This parallels the scholarly reception of the Mormon Scandinavian immigration to the United States, which privileges American over Scandinavian and Mormon above American. In this article,

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Hawley, George. "Attitudes toward Mormons and Voter Behavior in the 2012 Presidential Election." Politics and Religion 8, no. 1 (2015): 60–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1755048315000048.

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AbstractPrior to the 2012 presidential election, some commentators speculated that Mitt Romney's status as a devout and active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would undermine his presidential aspirations. Using the 2012 American National Election Survey, this study examines the relationship between attitudes toward Mormons and voter behavior in the United States in that election year. It finds that attitudes toward Mormons had a statistically-significant effect on turnout — though these effects differed according to party identification. It additionally finds that the

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Furr, Kelly N., and Daniel Gutierrez. "Counseling Best Practices for Helping Mormon Clients." Counseling and Values 69, no. 2 (2024): 187–207. https://doi.org/10.1163/2161007x-bja10019.

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Abstract Mormons, or members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (cjclds) have unique religious and cultural practices. Counselors must fulfill a baseline level of cultural competence (knowledge, awareness, skills) and the ability to practice with cultural humility to be effective with this population. Mormon beliefs and teachings can have both positive and negative effects on mental health. This article will review the strengths and cultural norms of Mormon spirituality and explore challenges related to Mormon spirituality, including issues lgbtq+ believers may face. This artic

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Yorgason, Ethan. "Re-creating Homeland and Ethnicity in the Pacific through Religion: The Case of Polynesian Conversion to Mormonism." Association of Korean Cultural and Historical Geographers 35, no. 1 (2023): 99–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.29349/jchg.2023.35.1.99.

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This article analyzes a case in which homeland and ethnicity were simultaneously re-conceived due to the influence of religion— the case of Polynesian Mormons. Through religious conversion, these Mormons (members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) were assigned and came to accept new claims about their ethnic origin and homeland. In particular, through the Book of Mormon scriptural story they came to believe their ancestors had “House of Israel” heritage via an American-continent homeland. The paper reviews both religious place-making and homeland concepts within cultural geog

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Fleming, Stephen J. "“Congenial to Almost Every Shade of Radicalism”: The Delaware Valley and the Success of Early Mormonism." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 17, no. 2 (2007): 129–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2007.17.2.129.

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AbstractWith many theories about the rise of Mormonism, this article turns to early Mormonism's growth in the Delaware Valley for insights. By testing the relative wealth of the converts, this article argues that Mormon conversion was not a product of deprivation as the converts tested were somewhat wealthier than their neighbors and were drawn from across the socioeconomic spectrum. Instead of appealing to the dispossessed, Mormonism offered a radical supernatural biblical message that appealed to certain cultural and religious orientations. Mormonism was successful among Methodists in centra

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Flake, Kathleen. "Re-placing Memory: Latter-day Saint Use of Historical Monuments and Narrative in the Early Twentieth Century." Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 13, no. 1 (2003): 69–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rac.2003.13.1.69.

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In the winter of 1905, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (L.D.S. or the “Mormons”) departed Utah on two, seemingly disparate, missions to the east coast. One contingent went to defend their church at Senate hearings in Washington, D.C.; the other, to Vermont to dedicate a monument to church founder Joseph Smith. These forays into national politics and religious memory re-fashioned Latter-day Saint identity, as well as public perception of Mormonism, for the remainder of the twentieth Century They also illuminate one of the quotidian mysteries of religion: how it adapts

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Jensen, Larry C., Janet Jensen, and Terrie Wiederhold. "Religiosity, Denomination, and Mental Health among Young Men and Women." Psychological Reports 72, no. 3_suppl (1993): 1157–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1993.72.3c.1157.

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The relations among religiosity, denomination, and mental health were studied. Comparisons of groups high, medium, and low in religiosity were made possible by extracting data from a large data set for three denominational groups and gender in a three-way analysis of variance design. There were significant main effects, with higher scores on three mental health measures for high religious groups, Mormons, and men. There were interactions resulting from highly religious Mormon women, but not highly religious Mormon men scoring higher. The three scores were self-esteem, emotional maturity, and n

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A. Engbers, Trent. "POLITICS OF POLYGAMOUS PEOPLE: HOW A MINORITY RELIGION CAN HELP US UNDERSTAND RELIGION AND POLITICS IN AMERICA." POLITICS AND RELIGION JOURNAL 7, no. 2 (2013): 373–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.54561/prj0702373e.

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When Texas State Troopers invaded the Yearning for Zion Ranch occupied by polygamist Mormon’s in 2008, it was the third major raid in American history. Yet, fundamentalist Mormons represent a small and little understood element of the American religious landscape. Nonetheless their struggles in America represent the evolving conflicts between politics and private religious life. This study introduces the doctrine of plural marriage as understood by Fundamentalist Mormons and uses it as a case study to consider five aspects of the relationship between religions and politics in America. This inc

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Van Dyk, Gerrit. "Understanding Mormonism." Theological Librarianship 12, no. 1 (2019): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.31046/tl.v12i1.531.

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Over the past couple of decades, the media and popular culture have been increasingly interested in members of the LDS Church, its leadership, and its practices. With all of this recent interest, it is possible that a religious studies librarian at an institution of higher education or at a theological seminary could conceivably receive an occasional query regarding Mormonism, either out of popular culture curiosity or for academic investigation. This essay will review major sources in this growing field for any who wish to either assist patrons in comparative religion projects related to Morm

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Witte, John. "The Legal Challenges of Religious Polygamy in the USA." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 11, no. 1 (2008): 72–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x09001665.

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A century and a half ago, Mormons made national headlines by claiming a First Amendment right to practise polygamy, despite criminal laws against it. In four cases, from 1879 to 1890, the United States Supreme Court firmly rejected their claim, and threatened to dissolve the Mormon church if they persisted. Part of the Court's argument was historical: the common law has always defined marriage as monogamous, and to change those rules ‘would be a return to barbarism’. Part of the argument was prudential: religious liberty can never become a licence to violate general criminal laws ‘lest chaos e

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Oman, Nathan B. "Nomos, Narrative, and Nephi: Legal Interpretation in the Book of Mormon." British Journal of American Legal Studies 11, no. 2 (2022): 297–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2022-0004.

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Abstract The Book of Mormon helped launch one of America's most successful religions, and millions around the world accept it as scripture. It is thus one of the more influential books to have been published in the United States. Ironically, precisely because of its role in the founding of Mormonism, the text of the Book of Mormon has often been ignored. Recently, however, the Book of Mormon has begun to attract the attention of scholars whose interest in the text goes beyond either religious devotion or the academic study of Mormonism. Rather, they look to the text as a literary creation of i

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Davies, W. D. "Reflections on the Mormon “Canon”." Harvard Theological Review 79, no. 1-3 (1986): 44–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017816000020344.

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This essay might seem inappropriate for this volume, but it is not. Krister Stendahl is particularly distinguished by a catholicity of mind and spirit which enables him to look with understanding, sympathy, and empathy on all sorts and conditions in what he once unpejoratively called “God's menagerie of religions.” That Mormons do not belong to the main bodies of Christians does not exclude them from his purview. But apart from this, the Mormons are in fact highly germane to the theme of this volume. Uniqueness is always hard to substantiate: Christians, Jews, and Gentiles have been related in

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