Recent Noteworthy Texts
Below is an annually modified list of significant titles related to Mormon Studies published in the past five years.
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Thomas G Alexander
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
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Mark Ashurst-McGee, Robin Jensen, and Sharalyn D. Howcroft, eds.
Foundational Texts of Mormonism. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Newell G. Bringhurst
Saints, Slaves and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People Within Mormonism. Greg Kofford Books, 2018.
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Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblik, and Hannah Wheelwright, eds.
Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings. Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Mary Campbell
Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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Gina Colvin and Joanna Brooks, eds.
Decolonizing Mormonism: Approaching a Postcolonial Zion. University of Utah Press, 2018.
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Peter Coviello
Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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Jill Mulvay Derr, et. al., eds.
The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. Church Historian’s Press, 2016.
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Scott Esplin
Return to the City of Joseph: Modern Mormonism’s Contest for the Soul of Nauvoo. University of Illinois Press, 2018.
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Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman, Eds.
Americanist Approaches to the Book of Mormon. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Matthew Garrett
Making Lamanites: Mormons, Native Americans, and the Indian Student Placement Program, 1947-2000. University of Utah Press, 2016.
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Terryl Givens
Feeding the Flock: The Foundations of Mormon Thought: Church and Praxis. Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Terryl Givens with Brian Haglund
The Pearl of Greatest Price: Mormonism’s Most Controversial Scripture. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Steven C. Harper
First Vision: Memory and Mormon Origins. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Kate Holbrook and Matthew Bowman, eds.
Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. University of Utah Press, 2016.
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Jake Johnson
Mormons, Musical Theater, and Belonging in America. University of Illinois Press, 2019.
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Todd M. Kerstetter
Inspiration & Innovation: Religion in the American West. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
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Carol Cornwall Madsen
Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History. University of Utah Press, 2017.
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Patrick Mason
Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century. University of Utah Press, 2016
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Colleen McDannell
Sister Saints: Mormon Women Since the End of Polygamy. Oxford University Press, 2018.
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Clyde A. Milner III and Brian Q. Cannon, eds.,
Reconstruction and Mormon America. University of Oklahoma Press, 2019.
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Larry E. Morris
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Max Perry Mueller
Race and the Making of the Mormon People. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
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Quincy Newell
Your Sister in the Gospel: The Life of Jane Manning James, A Nineteenth-Century Black Mormon. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Seth Perry
Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States. Princeton University Press, 2018.
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Jennifer Reeder and Kate Holbrook, eds.
At the Pulpit: 185 Years of Discourses by Latter-day Saint Women. Church Historian’s Press, 2017.
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Paul W. Reeve
Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness. Oxford University Press, 2015.
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Jana Riess
The Next Mormons: How Millennials are Changing the LDS Church. Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Brent M. Rogers, et al., eds.
The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 5: October 1835-January 1838. Church Historian’s Press, 2017.
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Jedediah Rogers and Matthew C. Godfrey
The Earth Will Appear as the Garden of Eden: Essays on Mormon Environmental History. University of Utah Press, 2019.
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Konden Smith Hansen
Frontier Religion: Mormons and America, 1857-1907. University of Utah Press, 2019.
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Ann Taves
Revelatory Events: Three Case Studies of the Emergence of New Spiritual Paths. Princeton University Press, 2016.
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Richard E. Turley, et al., eds.
Mountain Meadows Massacre: Collected Legal Papers (2 vols.). University of Oklahoma Press, 2017.
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“A House Full of Females”: Plural Marriage and Women’s Rights in Early Mormonism, 1835-1870. New York: Knopf, 2017.
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Lewis Vaughn
Anthology of World Religions: Sacred Texts and Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2016.
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David Walker
Railroading Religion: Mormons, Tourists, and the Corporate Spirit of the West. University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
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Miranda Wilcox and John D. Young
Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy. Oxford University Press, 2014.