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Review: Don Argott, Dir. Keep Sweet. 44 Blue Productions, 2021., Stephanie Griswold
Review: Don Argott, Dir. Keep Sweet. 44 Blue Productions, 2021., Stephanie Griswold
Mormon Studies Review
The recent documentary Keep Sweet, directed by Don Argott and produced by Glenn Meehan (not to be confused with the 2022 Netflix documentary Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey), recounts the producer’s experiences meeting members of the historically Fundamentalist Mormon community in Southern Utah known as Short Creek. The film is advertised as “rare access to current FLDS members” from “a producer embedded for over a decade.” The film follows the producer, Meehan, as he meets ex-members and followers of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) and depicts their experiences with the changes in their …
Reivew: Mark S. Diamond And Andrew C. Reed, Eds. Understanding Covenants And Communities: Jews And Latter-Day Saints In Dialogue. Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, In Cooperation With The Central Conference Of American Rabbis, New York, 2020., Yaakov Ariel
Mormon Studies Review
Scholars, students, and religious leaders who take interest in interfaith dialogues, and especially in the interactions between Latter- day Saints and Jews, will welcome Understanding Covenants and Communities: Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue. The compilation demonstrates both a continuation of and a breakthrough in the long history of the exchanges between the two communities of faith.
Review: Miles Harvey. The King Of Confidence: A Tale Of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, And The Murder Of An American Monarch. New York: Little, Brown And Company, 2020., Amy Derogatis
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A little over a year ago I was in the Clarke Historical Library in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, sifting through documents with librarian John T. Fierst to answer a nagging question regarding the provenance of a remarkable daguerreotype. As we were musing about the limits of what could be known about this material object, he happened to mention that another person who was finishing a book about James Jesse Strang had recently visited and looked at the photograph. Like any other academic hearing about scholarly competition, my heart froze, and out of my dry mouth I managed to croak, “Oh, really, …
Review: Etga Ugur. Faith And Politics In The Public Sphere: The Gülen Movement And The Mormon Church. Syracuse, Ny: Syracuse University Press, 2019., Jean-François Mayer
Review: Etga Ugur. Faith And Politics In The Public Sphere: The Gülen Movement And The Mormon Church. Syracuse, Ny: Syracuse University Press, 2019., Jean-François Mayer
Mormon Studies Review
When I accepted the invitation to review this book, published in a valuable series on Religion and Politics of which I had enjoyed reading several volumes, I assumed that it was a study of interactions between the Gülen movement (also known as Hizmet [service], emphasizing the social service projects for which the movement is well known) and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—something that I found intriguing, since I could not conceive how such a topic might deserve a full volume. I realized my mistake as soon as I started to read it. No sensational revelations about hidden …
Review: Kim Östman. Mormonit: Historia, Oppi Ja Elämä. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2019., Titus Hjelm
Review: Kim Östman. Mormonit: Historia, Oppi Ja Elämä. Helsinki: Gaudeamus, 2019., Titus Hjelm
Mormon Studies Review
Growing up in Finland in the 1980s, it was practically impossible to hear someone speak Finnish with an accent. In a time when immigrants were more or less nonexistent, it would have been difficult to imagine why anyone would bother learning the language spoken by five million people at the northern periphery of Europe. That is, apart from a handful of immaculately dressed and groomed American men. Although never as ubiquitous as Jehovah’s Witnesses knocking on doors, the Mormon missionaries and their perfect, if accented, Finnish left a deep impression on one young person, who later became a sociologist of …
World Enough, Tracy Fessenden
World Enough, Tracy Fessenden
Mormon Studies Review
I value reviews that help me decide whether a book is likely to light up the classroom, so I will say it straightaway: Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon will. Classroom friendliness in the humanities feels especially pressing now, as the larger share of our students set foot in our fields to fulfill distribution requirements on their way to degrees in business or STEM. If your class in American literature or history or religious studies is the one experience of your discipline that students who take it are likely to seek, a semester’s offering built around this book will …
Evolution Of The Research On Mormonism In Asia, Pierre Vendassi
Evolution Of The Research On Mormonism In Asia, Pierre Vendassi
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The first Mormon attempts to put down roots in Asia date back to 1851. Today the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as other Mormon denominations such as the Community of Christ are officially present in about twenty Asian countries. While many student dissertations and essays as well as testimonial or devotional books have been written on different aspects of Mormonism in Asia, including both the Latter-day Saints and Community of Christ traditions, the allotted space for this paper as well as my own resources prevented me from providing an exhaustive survey. Instead, I chose a few …
Review: Julie K. Allen. Danish But Not Lutheran: The Impact Of Mormonism On Danish Cultural Identity, 1850–1920. Salt Lake City: University Of Utah Press, 2017., Margit Egdal
Mormon Studies Review
America’s status as a land with a large and diverse immigrant population has long contrasted with the relatively homogenous populations of Europe. However, this situation has changed dramatically throughout Europe in recent decades. In Denmark, migrant workers and refugees from across Europe, Africa, and Asia have made for a more multicultural society.
Joseph Smith's First Vision: New Methods For The Analysis Of Experience-Related Texts, Ann Taves, Steven C. Harper
Joseph Smith's First Vision: New Methods For The Analysis Of Experience-Related Texts, Ann Taves, Steven C. Harper
Mormon Studies Review
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Miranda Wilcox And John D. Young, Eds., Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness And The Concept Of Apostasy, Reviewed By Randall J. Stephens
Miranda Wilcox And John D. Young, Eds., Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness And The Concept Of Apostasy, Reviewed By Randall J. Stephens
Mormon Studies Review
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Janet Bennion, Polygamy In Primetime: Media, Gender, And Politics In Mormon Fundamentalism, Reviewed By Megan Goodwin
Janet Bennion, Polygamy In Primetime: Media, Gender, And Politics In Mormon Fundamentalism, Reviewed By Megan Goodwin
Mormon Studies Review
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Making The Unfamiliar Familiar: Mormon Studies For Non-Mormon Students, Jill Peterfeso
Making The Unfamiliar Familiar: Mormon Studies For Non-Mormon Students, Jill Peterfeso
Mormon Studies Review
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Mormon Studies Review Volume 2, Mormon Studies Review
Mormon Studies Review Volume 2, Mormon Studies Review
Mormon Studies Review
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Jeremy Grimshaw, Draw A Straight Line And Follow It: The Music And Mysticism Of La Monte Young, Reviewed By Peter Mcmurray
Jeremy Grimshaw, Draw A Straight Line And Follow It: The Music And Mysticism Of La Monte Young, Reviewed By Peter Mcmurray
Mormon Studies Review
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The State Of Mormon Folklore Studies, Tom Mould, Eric A. Eliason
The State Of Mormon Folklore Studies, Tom Mould, Eric A. Eliason
Mormon Studies Review
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Beyond "Surreptitious Staring": Migration, Missions, And The Generativity Of Mormonism For The Comparative And Translocative Study Of Religion, Thomas A. Tweed
Beyond "Surreptitious Staring": Migration, Missions, And The Generativity Of Mormonism For The Comparative And Translocative Study Of Religion, Thomas A. Tweed
Mormon Studies Review
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Mormon Studies Review Volume 1, Mormon Studies Review
Mormon Studies Review Volume 1, Mormon Studies Review
Mormon Studies Review
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Mormon Studies In The Academy: A Conversation Between Ann Taves And Spencer Fluhman, Mormon Studies Review
Mormon Studies In The Academy: A Conversation Between Ann Taves And Spencer Fluhman, Mormon Studies Review
Mormon Studies Review
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The Oak And The Banyan: The "Glocalization" Of Mormon Studies, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
The Oak And The Banyan: The "Glocalization" Of Mormon Studies, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye
Mormon Studies Review
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