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The following texts are popular in current Mormon Studies syllabi.

Hokulani K. Aikau

Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i (University of Minnesota Press, 2012).

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Philip L. Barlow

Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

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Francis J. Beckwith, Carl Mosser, and Paul Owen

The New Mormon Challenge: Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010).

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Matthew Bowman

The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith (New York: Random House, 2012).

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Joanna Brooks, Rachel Steenblik, and Hannah Wheelwright

Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings. (New York: Oxford: 2016).

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Claudia L. Bushman

Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America (Praeger, 2006).

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Richard Bushman

Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling (New York: Knopf, 2005).

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Richard L. Bushman

Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

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Kathryn M. Daynes

More Wives Than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008).

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Kathleen Flake

The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle (University of North Carolia Press, 2004).

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Terryl L. Givens

Wrestling the Angel: The Foundations of Mormon Thought (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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Terryl Givens

The Book of Mormon: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2009).

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Armand Mauss

The Angel and the Beehive (University of Illinois Press, 1994).

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W. Paul Reeve

Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

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Jan Shipps

Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985).

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Christine Talbot

A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852-1890 (University of Illinois Press, 2013).

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