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Front Matter Mormon Studies Review Mormon Studies Review Volume 3 | Number 1 Article 1 1-1-2016 Front Matter 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 (2016) "Front Matter," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 3 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol3/iss1/1 This Front Matter is brought to you for free and open access by the All 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: Front Matter 2016 MORMON Volume 3 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, Hamilton College Grant Underwood, Professor of History, Brigham Young University CHIEF EDITORIAL ASSISTANT PRODUCTION EDITOR Blair Dee Hodges Don L. Brugger Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016 1 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 3 [2016], No. 1, Art. 1 MORMON STUDIES REVIEW © 2016 by Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University. All rights reserved. Mormon Studies Review (ISSN 2156-8022 print, 2156-8030 online) is published once a year by the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. Permissions. No portion of Mormon Studies Review may be reproduced by any means or process without the formal written consent of the publisher. Direct all permissions requests to Permissions Manager, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. Subscriptions. An annual subscription rate, which includes access to all online content, is $25 (one issue). An annual digital-only subscription is $10. Subscribe by visiting our website at maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/subscribe/, by sending an email to maxwell_institute@byu .edu, or by phoning 800-327-6715. Address subscription requests to Subscriptions, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Mormon Studies Review, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602. Editorial correspondence and submissions. Please direct all editorial queries and submis- sions 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 Association, www.atla.com) and is available for full-text searching through EBSCO. Views expressed in Mormon Studies Review are those of the contributors. They should not necessarily be attributed to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young University, the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, or Mormon Studies Review’s editors or staff. Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship M. Gerald Bradford, Executive Director Anela Menezes, 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/vol3/iss1/1 2 Review: Front Matter Contents Forum: Lived Mormonism Editors’ Introduction 1 Pedagogical Impulses and Incommensurables: Lived Mormonism in Hong Kong 2 Stacilee Ford Testimony in the Muscles, in the Body: Proxy Performance at the Mesa Easter Pageant 11 Megan Sanborn Jones The Materiality of Lived Mormonism 19 Josh E. Probert Lived Leadership 30 Kate Holbrook “Provident Living”: Ethnography, Material Culture, and the Performance of Mormonism in Everyday Life 37 Danille Elise Christensen Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016 3 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 3 [2016], No. 1, Art. 1 iv Contents Essays Joseph Smith’s First Vision: New Methods for the Analysis of Experience-Related Texts 53 Ann Taves and Steven C. Harper Toward a Greener Faith: A Review of Recent Mormon Environmental Scholarship 85 George B. Handley Review Essays Wrestling with Language: Exploring the Impact of Mormon Metaphysics on Theological Pedagogy 105 Michelle Chaplin Sanchez Accounting for Whiteness in Mormon Religion 117 Sylvester A. Johnson “A Kind of Painful Progress”: Contesting and Collaborating on the Mormon Image in America 134 Cristine Hutchison-Jones Review Panel David G. Stewart Jr. and Matthew Martinich, Reaching the Nations: International LDS Church Growth Almanac 147 Reviewed by Carter Charles, Gina Colvin, Wilfried Decoo, Matthew Heiss, Eustache Ilunga, Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye, David M. Morris, Marcello Jun de Oliveira, Taunalyn Rutherford, Charles and Mercy Sono-Koree, and Walter van Beek https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol3/iss1/1 4 Review: Front Matter Contents v Book Reviews Brandon S. Plewe, S. Kent Brown, Donald Q. Cannon, and Richard H. Jackson, eds., Mapping Mormonism: An Atlas of Latter-day Saint History 163 Reviewed by Philip Barlow Samuel Morris Brown, In Heaven as It Is on Earth: Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death 170 Reviewed by Charles L. Cohen Miranda Wilcox and John D. Young, eds., Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy 174 Reviewed by Randall J. Stephens Michael Hicks, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: A Biography 179 Reviewed by Stephen A. Marini Craig Harline, Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled but Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary 184 Reviewed by Anne Blue Wills Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography 188 Reviewed by Greg Wilkinson Jedediah S. Rogers, ed., The Council of Fifty: A Documentary History 196 Reviewed by Adam Jortner Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2016 5.
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