The texts below provide scholars with diverse resources for studying Mormonism. This is not a ranked or exhaustive list but highlights new and respected books across different disciplines. The UVA Mormon Studies Program will regularly update the list to showcase new books and other disciplinary lenses.
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Moral Visions: Ethics and the Book of Mormon
Courtney S. Campbell and Kelly Sorensen, eds.
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Wakara's America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West
Max Perry Mueller
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Carry On The Latter-day Saint Young Women Organization 1870–2024
Lisa Olsen Tait, Amber C. Taylor, and James Goldberg
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Convicting the Mormons The Mountain Meadows Massacre in American Culture
Janiece Johnson
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Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
Matthew L. Harris
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Women's History
Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Kate Holbrook Matthew Bowman, eds.
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A House Full of Females: Plural Marriage and Women's Rights in Early Mormonism
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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More Wives than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910
Kathryn M. Daynes
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Global
Mormon Women at the Crossroads: Global Narratives and the Power of Connectedness
Caroline Kline
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Danish but Not Lutheran: The Impact of Mormonism on Danish Cultural Identity, 1850-1920
Julie K. Allen
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Marianne Meets the Mormons: Representations of Mormonism in Nineteenth-Century France
Heather Belnap, Corry Cropper, and Daryl Lee
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Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones, eds.
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Thirsty Land into Springs of Water: Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-day Saints
Brooke Kathleen
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