Pioneer Day: Recommended Reading from JI’s archives
Happy Pioneer Day, readers! Thank you for your patience with us lately — we know things have been slow around here (they tend to get that way during the summer), but we have some exciting things...
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Mormons, Supplementary Worship, and Ash Wednesday
Mormons have a long history of supplementing their LDS worship with attendance at or participation in the services of other Christian denominations. In the 19th century, some Latter-day Saints in the...
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MSWR: 22–28 March
There is much to highlight, so let’s get started: 110th Translation of the Book of Mormon Published (LDS Church Growth) “Kosraean is the 110th language into which the Church has translated the Book of...
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Guest Post: From the Archives: Missionary Work, Race, and the Priesthood and...
Today’s guest post comes from Shannon Flynn, a longtime student of church history who currently lives in Gilbert, Arizona. Shannon holds a B.A. in history from the University of Utah and had published...
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Guest Post: From the Archives: Missionary Work, Race, and the Priesthood and...
This is second and final entry in a series of posts from guest Shannon Flynn on missionary work, race, and the Priesthood Ban that draws on his experience as a missionary in Brazil from 1977-1979. See...
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#JMH50 Roundtable: Matthew Grow, “Biography in Mormon Studies”
Matt Grow’s contribution to the Journal of Mormon History 50th anniversary issue takes as its subject the place of biography in Mormon Studies. As the author (or co-author) of two significant...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Mormons, Race, and Gender in the Borderlands
CALL FOR PAPERS: Race, Gender, and Power in the Mormon Borderlands Mormon history lies at the borders between subaltern and dominant cultures. On the one hand, due to their unusual family structure...
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“For ye were strangers”: Four Short Vignettes on Mormon(s) (and) Refugees
“And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were...
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Research Query: Mormonism in Palestine and Israel: Globalization, Peoplehood,...
We’re pleased to host this research query from Amber Taylor, a PhD student at Brandeis University. Please feel free to suggest readings in the comments below. Amber can also be reached at ambercecile3...
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Review: Philip Lockley, ed., Protestant Communalism in the Trans-Atlantic...
Philip Lockley, ed., Protestant Communalism in the Trans-Atlantic World, 1650-1850 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). A little more than five years ago, I posted some thoughts on Scott Rohrer’s...
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Year in Review … 1975, That Is
It’s the time for year-in-review articles and retrospectives, as we get ready to kick 2016 out the door. I’m not sure how to put my thoughts about this year into coherent words, so maybe I’d rather...
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Mormons and Refugees: A Reading List from the Juvenile Instructor and Friends
Image courtesy of Ardis Parshall, keepapitchinin.org. Some recommended reading from Juvenile Instructor bloggers and friends on the history of Mormonism and/as refugees: Christopher Jones, “‘For ye...
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Review: Östman on Allen, Danish, But Not Lutheran
We are pleased to post this book review by friend of the JI Kim Östman, who has researched and written extensively on Mormonism in the northern-European country of Finland. He holds a Ph.D. in...
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Mormonism in The Moslem Sunrise, 1922
In 1921, Mufti Muhammad Sadiq, a representative of the Ahmadiyya Movement and the first Muslim missionary to America, launched the The Moslem Sunrise, a newspaper intended to help proselytize...
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From the Archives: Mormonism in Barbados (Almost), 1853
(detail from John Arrowsmith, Map of the Windward Islands, 1844. Click on image for original) Last month, Elder Dale Renlund visited the West Indian island of Barbados, which he dedicated for the...
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Book Review: Hokulani K. Aikau’s A Chosen People, A Promised Land: Mormonism...
Hokulani K. Aikau’s book, A Chosen People, A Promised Land, published in 2012, is an important work on Mormonism in the Pacific, addressing the colonial legacy of the church and its racial ideologies....
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From the Archives: Black Internationalism in 19th Century Salt Lake City; or...
NOTE: The original version of this post was based, in part, on faulty research, for which I take full blame. What appears below is a revised version (with a slightly modified title). There is no...
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DH and the Woman’s Exponent
“The techno-revolution has begun! Soon, robots will scour women’s words and discover the truth about everything.” Or, at least, that’s what I imagine Brigham Young would have said if he had read the...
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Book Review: Colvin and Brooks, Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a...
Gina Colvin and Joanna Brooks provide an important intervention into the field of Mormon studies with their edited volume of essays by thirteen scholars. The authors in Decolonizing Mormonism show the...
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“Called Home”: Missionaries and Prophecy in the Latter Day Saint Tradition
By Christopher James Blythe, friend of JI and author of the forthcoming Terrible Revolution: Latter-day Saints and the American Apocalypse. On March 20, 2020, the First Presidency and the Quorum...
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