num_pages: 400
description: An intimate and eloquent history of America's fastest-growing religion from its leading 'outsider' scholar Infused with Jan Shipps's lively curiosity, scholarly rigor, and contagious fascination with a significant subculture, Sojourner in the Promised Land presents a distinctive parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time shares with the reader what it has been like to be on the outside of a culture that remains both familiar and strange.
language: English
title: Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons
titlecomplete: Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons
genres: Religion, Mormonism, Nonfiction, Lds
ratings_count: 33
publisher: University of Illinois Press