Still, the Small Voice: Narrative, Personal Revelation, and the Mormon Folk Tradition
InStill, the Small Voice, Tom Mould offers a strikingly innovative perspective on the classic religious problem of how the deeply individual and interior experience of personal revelation may be made social and public. His detailed, performance-centered analysis of Mormon narratives of personal revelation illuminates the ways in which narrative performance renders personal revelation memorable, repeatable, durable, and affecting. Mould’s book is a singular contribution not only to Mormon studies, but to religious studies, folklore, and performance studies more generally.—Richard BaumanTom Mould is a remarkable scholar. He knows his Mormon sources better than many Mormon researchers, and he is fully conversant with trends in folklore scholarship. I would guess that in time he may become one of the American Folklore Society’s best known scholars. USU Press should be proud of publishing his book.—William A. Wilson