Mormon Studies Review Volume 2

Mormon Studies Review Volume 2 Number 1 Article 24 1-1-2015 Mormon Studies Review Volume 2 Mormon Studies Review Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2 Part of the Mormon Studies Commons BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Review, Mormon Studies (2015) "Mormon Studies Review Volume 2," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 2 : No. 1 , Article 24. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol2/iss1/24 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mormon Studies Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Review: Mormon Studies Review Volume 2 2015 MORMON Volume 2 STUDIES Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship REVIEW Brigham Young University Editor J. Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University ASSOCIATE EDITORS D. Morgan Davis, Brigham Young University Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, University of Auckland Benjamin E. Park, University of Missouri EDITORIAL BOARD Philip L. Barlow, Leonard J. Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture, Utah State University Richard L. Bushman, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History, Emeritus, Columbia University Douglas J. Davies, Professor in the Study of Religion, Durham University Eric A. Eliason, Professor of English, Brigham Young University James E. Faulconer, Professor of Philosophy, Brigham Young University Kathleen Flake, Richard L. Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies, University of Virginia Terryl L. Givens, James A. Bostwick Chair of English and Professor of Literature and Religion, University of Richmond Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania Matthew J. Grow, Director of Publications, Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Grant Hardy, Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of North Carolina—Asheville David F. Holland, Associate Professor of North American Religious History, Harvard Divinity School Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis Patrick Q. Mason, Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies, Claremont Graduate University Quincy D. Newell, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Wyoming Grant Underwood, Professor of History, Brigham Young University CHIEF EDITORIAL ASSISTANT PRODUCTION EDITOR Blair Dee Hodges Don L. Brugger Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015 1 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 2 [2015], No. 1, Art. 24 MORMON STUDIES REVIEW © 2015 by Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young Uni- versity. 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Please direct all editorial queries and submissions to: Mormon Studies Review, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. Email: [email protected]. Submission guidelines are found at publications.maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/periodicals/mormon-studies-review /msrguidelines/. Mormon Studies Review is indexed in ATLA Religion Database (published by the Ameri- can Theological Library Library Association, www.atla.com) and Index to Book Reviews in Religion and is listed in MLA International Bibliography, Historical Abstracts, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Digital distribution to the academic community is provided by EBSCO. Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship M. Gerald Bradford, Executive Director Joe Bonyata, Director of Publications Anela Ormsby, Subscriptions Manager The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Printed in the United States of America maxwellinstitute.byu.edu https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol2/iss1/24 2 Review: Mormon Studies Review Volume 2 Contents Forum: Teaching Mormon Studies What They Learned from the Mormons 1 Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp The Graduate Mormon Studies Classroom 11 Patrick Q. Mason Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: Mormon Studies for Non-Mormon Students 19 Jill Peterfeso “Light and Truth” in the Public University Classroom 27 John G. Turner Teaching Mormon Studies at a School of Theology and a Public University 33 Robert A. Rees “I’ll pet a cat from time to time . and I’m a Mormon”: Teaching Mormonism in the American Midwest 42 Sara M. Patterson Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015 3 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 2 [2015], No. 1, Art. 24 iv Contents Essay The Brief History and Perpetually Exciting Future of Mormon Literary Studies 49 Michael Austin Review Essays What Kind of Prejudice Was Anti-Mormonism? 75 Chris Beneke Rough Stone Rising: The Joseph Smith Papers Project 86 Mark A. Mastromarino Religious Dialogue across Lines of Difference: Mormons, Evangelicals, and Others Agreeing to Disagree 105 Roy Whitaker Book Reviews David J. Howlett, Kirtland Temple: The Biography of a Shared Mormon Sacred Space 117 Reviewed by Jeanne Halgren Kilde Todd M. Compton, A Frontier Life: Jacob Hamblin, Explorer and Indian Missionary 121 Reviewed by Anne Hyde Christine Talbot, A Foreign Kingdom: Mormons and Polygamy in American Political Culture, 1852–1890 124 Reviewed by Colleen McDannell https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol2/iss1/24 4 Review: Mormon Studies Review Volume 2 Contents v Craig Harline, Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America 129 Reviewed by Randall Balmer Reid L. Neilson, Exhibiting Mormonism: The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair 134 Reviewed by Peter J. Thuesen Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey, The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America 139 Reviewed by Tom Simpson Melvyn Hammarberg, The Mormon Quest for Glory: The Religious World of the Latter-day Saints 145 Reviewed by Richard Buonforte Richard E. Turley Jr. and Brittany A. Chapman, Women of Faith in the Latter Days 150 Reviewed by Amy Easton-Flake Stephen H. Webb, Mormon Christianity: What Other Christians Can Learn from the Latter-day Saints 159 Reviewed by James E. Faulconer Janet Bennion, Polygamy in Primetime: Media, Gender, and Politics in Mormon Fundamentalism 166 Reviewed by Megan Goodwin Jeremy Grimshaw, Draw a Straight Line and Follow It: The Music and Mysticism of La Monte Young 171 Reviewed by Peter McMurray Steven L. Peck, The Scholar of Moab and A Short Stay in Hell 179 Reviewed by Scott Hales Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015 5 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 2 [2015], No. 1, Art. 24 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol2/iss1/24 6 Review: Mormon Studies Review Volume 2 Forum: Teaching Mormon Studies What They Learned from the Mormons Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp North Carolina wouldn’t be the first place one would think of as the birthplace of Mormon studies outside Utah. But when I taught my first class on Mormonism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999, I was hard-pressed to find any colleagues in other institu- tions teaching a class dedicated to the Mormon tradition who could offer templates. I was also unsure whether students there, over two-thirds of whom hail from the Tar Heel State, would be interested in such a course. In 1999 the LDS population of the region was under fifty thousand. Although the LDS Church was constructing a temple down the road in Cary, North Carolina, I knew that many students would have had little exposure to things Mormon, and perhaps would have meager interest. So it was with few expectations and not a small measure of trepi- dation that I taught a seminar entitled “Mormonism and the American Experience” that spring. As would be the case in subsequent years, most of the students had been raised in moderately conservative evangelical faith communities (Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian). Many reported having learned about Mormonism at church as a cult or, at best, a seriously misguided set of theological precepts and possibly scandalous practices. Yet they were there, and I was there, ready to embark on a journey that Mormon Studies Review, vol. 2, 2015 1 Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015 7 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 2 [2015], No. 1, Art. 24 2 Mormon Studies Review would transform not only my teaching but also my research and profes- sional life over the next fifteen years. Never having taught such a course, I had a lot to learn as well. I had studied little about the Mormon faith during my own graduate training beyond reading Leonard Arrington’s Great Basin Kingdom and the work of Jan Shipps. I daresay this was more than most scholars of US history trained in the 1980s, even those studying religion, could claim. But it was hardly enough material on which to base an entire course, especially one that needed to reach through the late twentieth century. I designed the first half of the course as a chronological survey to ground students in the basic outlines of Mormon history. In the second half, we discussed themes that I hoped would be of interest to college-aged participants: Mormon health codes, dating and lifestyle issues, women’s roles, race, missionaries, and so on.

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