Classroom Favorites
The following texts are popular in current Mormon Studies syllabi.
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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 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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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).