New perspectives in Mormon studies
Subtitle: creating and crossing boundaries
By: edited by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason ; foreword by Jan Shipps
Contributors: Newell, Quincy D., 1975- editor; Mason, Eric Farrel, editor
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780806143132
Subjects: Doctrines; Mormon Church; Congresses; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; History
Description: Essays originally presented at the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar held in 2005 at Brigham Young University.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : creating and crossing boundaries in Mormonism and Mormon studies / Quincy D. Newell; title: Profits of a prophet : toward Joseph Smith's political economy / David Charles Gore; title: "Is there no blessing for me?" : Jane James's construction of space in Latter-day Saint history and practice / Quincy D. Newell; title: The young Joseph Smith and Presbyterianism / John Matzko; title: What has Pentecostalism to do with Mormonism? : the case of John Alexander Dowie / D. William Faupel; title: The prophetic legacy in Islam and Mormonism : some comparative observations / Grant Underwood; title: The ex factor : constructing a religious mission in the Ex-Mormons For Jesus/Saints Alive In Jesus, 1975-1990 / Sara M. Patterson; title: "But I say unto you, who is Elias?" / Stevan Davies; title: The saints and the scrolls : LDS engagement with mainstream Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship and its implications / Eric F. Mason; title: The commencement of Mormon studies / Richard Lyman Bushman.