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For this handbook, Terryl Givens and Philip Barlow, two leading scholars of Mormonism, have brought together other top people in the field to construct a collection of essays that offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship on Mormons.
List of contents
- Introduction: Terryl Givens and Philip Barlow
- I. History of Mormonism
- 1. An Interpretive Framework for Studying the History of Mormonism - Jan Shipps
- 2. Emergent Mormonism in Context - Daniel Walker Howe
- 3. The Mormon Church in Utah - W. Paul Reeve
- 4 The Modern Mormon Church - Matthew J. Grow
- 5. Women in Mormonism - Claudia L. Bushman
- 6. Understanding Multiple Mormonisms - William D. Russell
- 7. Mormon Studies as an Academic Discipline- David J. Whittaker
- II. Revelation and Scripture
- 8. Joseph Smith and His Visions - Richard L. Bushman
- 9. Mormons and the Bible - Laurie Maffly-Kipp
- 10. The Book of Mormon - Grant Hardy
- 11. Revelation and the Open Canon in Mormonism - David F. Holland
- III. Ecclesiastical Structure and Praxis
- 12. Mormon Priesthood and Organization - Gregory A. Prince
- 13. Mormon Mission Work - Reid L. Neilson
- 14. The Mormon Temple and Mormon Ritual - James E. Falconer
- 15. Lived Religion among Mormons - Tona J. Hangen
- IV. Mormon Thought
- 16. Mind and Spirit in Mormon Thought - Philip L. Barlow
- 17. The Nature of God in Mormon Thought - David L. Paulsen and Hal R. Boyd
- 18. Christ, Atonement, and Human Possibilities in Mormon Thought - Terryl L. Givens
- 19. The Problem of Evil in Mormon Thought - James M. McLaughlan
- 20. Embodiment and Sexuality in Mormon Thought - Samuel Morris Brown and Kate Holbrook
- V. Mormon Society
- 21. The Social Composition of Mormonism - Tim B. Heaton and Cardell K. Jacobson
- 22. Celestial Marriage (Eternal and Plural) - Kathryn M. Daynes
- 23. Mormon Doctrine on Gender - Valerie M. Hudson
- 24. Mormons and Race - Margaret Blair Young and Darius Aidan Gray
- 25. Authority and Dissent in Mormonism - Armand L. Mauss
- 26. Mormonism and Media - John Durham Peters
- VI Mormon Culture
- 27. Geography and Mormon Identity - Richard V. Francaviglia
- 28. Mormon Popular Culture - Jana Riess
- 29. Mormon Folk Culture - Eric A. Eliason
- 30. Mormon Visual Arts - Paul L. Anderson
- 31. Mormon Letters - Michael Austin
- 32. Music and Heaven in Mormon Thought - Michael D. Hicks
- VII. The International Church
- 33. Mormons in Latin America - Mark L. Grover
- 34. Mormons in The Pacific - R. Lanier Britsch
- 35. Mormons in Europe - Wilfried Decoo
- 36. Mormons in Asia - Van C. Gessel
- VIII Mormonism in the World Community
- 37. Communitarianism and Consecration in Mormonism - J. Spencer Fluhman
- 38. Mormons and the Law - Sarah Barringer Gordon
- 39. Mormonism in the American Political Domain - Noah R. Feldman
- 40. Mormons and Interfaith Relations - Richard J. Mouw
- 41. Mormons and Muslims- Daniel Peterson
- Index
About the author
Terryl L. Givens is Jabez A. Bostwick Professor of English at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Cosmos, God, Humanity.
Philip L. Barlow is the Associate Director of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University. He is the author of Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion.
Summary
For this handbook, Terryl Givens and Philip Barlow, two leading scholars of Mormonism, have brought together other top people in the field to construct a collection of essays that offers a comprehensive overview of scholarship on Mormons.
