MIPodcast #89—‘Sister Saints,’ with Colleen McDannell
Channel: Maxwell Institute
Date: 2019-02-05

According to historian Colleen McDannell, women have played a vital role in the life of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the beginning. From the hard-scrabble pioneer worker to the Progressive Era suffragette, from the domestic housewife to the working mother, the international convert, the single adult, the black Latter-day Saint. Each have contributed to the church's development and growth in their own important ways.

In this episode Dr. McDannell introduces us to many of these women whose stories are told in her new book "Sister Saints: Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy."

COLLEEN MCDANNELL is Professor of History and Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utah. One of the nation's foremost experts on American religious history, she is the author of several books including "Material Christianity," "Heaven: A History," and her latest book, "Sister Saints: Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy."

See mi.byu.edu/mip-89-mcdannell.
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