The texts below provide teachers and professors with diverse resources for studying Mormonism and its intersection with other disciplines. This is not a ranked or exhaustive list but highlights respected books, articles, and surveys. The UVA Mormon Studies Program will regularly update the list to offer new, classic, and lesser-known works.
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Texts
Special Topic: Global Mormonism
Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions
David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones, eds.
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Books
Articles and Chapters
"The Crisis of Mormon Christology: History, Progress, and Protestantism"
Matthew Bowman, Fides Et Historia, 40, (Summer/Fall 2008)
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"'Those Amazing Mormons': The Media's Construction of Latter-day Saints as a Model Minority"
Chiung Hwang Chen & Ethan Yorgason Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 32, no. 2 (1997): 107-128
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"Ordering Antinomy: An Analysis of Early Mormonism's Priestly Offices, Councils, and Kinship"
Kathleen Flake, Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, 26, no. 2 (2016): 139-83
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"Translating Time: The Nature and Function of Joseph Smith's Narrative Canon"
Kathleen Flake, Journal of Religion, 87.4 (October 2007): 497-527
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"Infallible Proofs, Both Human and Divine: The Persuasiveness of Mormonism for Early Converts"
Stephen Harper, Religion and American Culture, 10, no. 1 (2000): 99-118
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"The Book of Mormon as Amerindian Apocalypse"
Jared Hickman, American Literature, 86.3 (2014): 429-461
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"Mormon Masculinity: Changing Gender Expectations in the Era of Transition from Polygamy to Monogamy. 1890-1920"
Amy Hoyt and Sara M. Patterson, Gender & History, 23, no. 1 (2011): 72-91
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"Muscular Mormonism"
Richard Kimball, International Journal of the History of Sport, 25, no. 5 (April 2008): 549-578
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"Mormonism in Popular Culture"
Kathryn Lofton, Religion and American Culture, 23:1 (Winter 2013): 9-14
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"Pulling Toward Zion: Mormonism in its Global Dimensions"
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism (2020)
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"Tracking the Sincere Believer: ‘Authentic’ Religion and the Enduring Legacy of Joseph Smith Jr.”
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Neilson & Givens, eds., Joseph Smith Jr.: Reappraisals (2008)
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"Introduction"
Patrick Q. Mason, Directions for Mormon Studies in the Twenty-First Century (2016): 1-12
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"The Mormon Movement in Metaphor and Theory"
Armand L. Mauss, The Angel and the Beehive (1994): 3-17
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“Established Agreeable to the Laws of Our Country"
Nathan B. Oman, Journal of Law and Religion, 36, no. 2 (2021): 202-229
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“‘Defence of Polygamy by a Lady’”
Sarah M.S. Pearsall, Polygamy: An Early American History (2019)
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"The Materiality of Lived Mormonism"
Josh Probert Mormon Studies Review, 3, (2016): 19-29
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"From Satyr to Saint: American Perceptions of the Mormons, 1860-1960"
Jan Shipps Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons (2000)
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"'Saviors on Mount Zion': Mormon Sacramentalism, Mortality, and the Baptism for the Dead"
Ryan G. Tobler Journal of Mormon History, 39, no. 4 (2013): 182-238
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"'We Baked a Lot of Bread': Reconceptualizing Women and Ritual Objects"
Kristine Wright Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2016): 82-100
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Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen
Mark T. Decker & Michael Austin
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Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
David Goulding & Christopher C. Jones
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Joseph Smith Jr.: Reappraisals after Two Centuries
Reid L. Nielson & Terryl L. Givens
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