Hosted by doctoral student Stephen Betts, Scholars & Saints explores some of the most pressing issues and cutting-edge methods in Mormon Studies, and puts them in conversation with scholarship from the discipline of Religious Studies.
Hosted by Stephen Betts.
Professor Nathan Rees (University of West Georgia) joins me to discuss his book Mormon Visual Culture and the American West. We chat…
Partly as the church has changed, partly as the world around us has fragmented in evermore specialized and siloed categories, I…
“What I say in the book is he was a religious unbeliever, but Mormonism was the religion that he didn’t believe…
President Dallin H. Oaks, First Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, delivered the…
I’m joined today by Robin Jensen—historian and documentary editor at the Joseph Smith Papers project. Dr. Jensen has edited multiple volumes…
I’m joined today by Kathryn Lofton, Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American studies, Professor of History and Divinity,…
Professor William N. Eskridge of Yale Law School, a renowned expert on the judicial interpretation of statutory law, delivered the eighth…
Amaechi Okafor, PhD Candidate in History at Concordia University, joins me to discuss his ethnographic fieldwork among Latter-day Saints in Nigeria….
Professor John Durham Peters of Yale University joins me to discuss his 2016 essay in Critical Inquiry, “Recording Beyond the Grave: Joseph Smith’s…
I’m joined today by Terryl Givens, Neil A. Maxwell Senior Fellow at Brigham Young University’s Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship and…
