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Front Matter Mormon Studies Review Mormon Studies Review Volume 1 | Number 1 Article 1 1-1-2014 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 (2014) "Front Matter," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 1 : No. 1 , Article 1. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol1/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 2014 MORMON Volume 1 Neal A. Maxwell Institute STUDIES for Religious Scholarship REVIEW Brigham Young University EDITOR J. Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University ASSOCIATE EDITORS D. Morgan Davis, Brigham Young University Benjamin E. Park, University of Cambridge EDITORIAL ADVISORY 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, Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding and 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, e 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, 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, 2014 1 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 1 [2014], No. 1, Art. 1 MORMON STUDIES REVIEW © 2014 by Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young Univer- sity. All rights reserved. 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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]. Mormon Studies Review is indexed in ATLA Religion Database (published by the Amer- ican eological 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 pro- vided by EBSCO. NEAL A. MAxWELL INSTITUTE FOR RELIGIOUS SCHOLARSHIP M. Gerald Bradford, Executive Director Joe Bonyata, Director of Publications Anela Ormsby, Subscriptions Manager Justin Kelly and Caroline B. Larsen, Editorial Assistants e 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 Please visit our website: http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol1/iss1/1 2 Review: Front Matter Contents Friendship: An Editor’s Introduction 1 Spencer Fluhman Essays Mormon Studies in the Academy: A Conversation between 9 Ann Taves and Spencer Fluhman Beyond “Surreptitious Staring”: Migration, Missions, and the 17 Generativity of Mormonism for the Comparative and Translocative Study of Religion Thomas A. Tweed The State of Mormon Folklore Studies 29 Tom Mould and Eric A. Eliason Roundtable: The State of Mormon Studies In Defense of Methodological Pluralism: Theology, Apologetics, 53 and the Critical Study of Mormonism Brian D. Birch Gender in Mormon Studies: Obstacles and Opportunities 63 Susanna Morrill The Oak and the Banyan: The “Glocalization” of Mormon Studies 70 Melissa Wei-Tsing Inouye Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014 3 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 1 [2014], No. 1, Art. 1 iv Contents “Let a Hundred Flowers Blossom”: Some Observations on 80 Mormon Studies Daniel C. Peterson Mormon Studies and Method: The Rigors of the Academic Study 89 of Religion and the Maturity of Mormon Studies Stephen C. Taysom We’ll Find the Place: Situating Mormon Studies 96 Kristine Haglund Review Essays Terryl Givens, Fiona Givens, and The Rehabilitation of Mormon 103 Theology Matthew Bowman The Reluctant Metaphysicians 115 Samuel M. Brown On a Dawning Era for the Book of Mormon 132 Joseph M. Spencer Just War and Mormon Ethics 144 Benjamin R. Hertzberg Book Reviews David F. Holland, Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and 155 Canonical Restraint in Early America Reviewed by W. Clark Gilpin Paul C. Gutjahr, The “Book of Mormon”: A Biography 160 Reviewed by Kathryn Lofton https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol1/iss1/1 4 Review: Front Matter Contents v Matthew Bowman, The Mormon People: The Making of an 166 American Faith Reviewed by David Walker Adam S. Miller, Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and 174 Object-Oriented Theology Reviewed by Stephen H. Webb Stephen H. Webb, Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and 182 the Metaphysics of Matter Reviewed by Adam S. Miller John G. Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet 188 Reviewed by David J. Howlett Claudia L. Bushman and Caroline Kline, eds., Mormon Women 196 Have Their Say: Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection Reviewed by Jana Riess Joanna Brooks, The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an 203 American Faith Reviewed by Zina Petersen Matthew Kester, Remembering Iosepa: History, Place, and Religion 210 in the American West Reviewed by Hokulani K. Aikau Armand L. Mauss, Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: 214 Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic Reviewed by David E. Campbell Mormon Studies: A Bibliographic Essay 223 Blair Dee Hodges Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2014 5.
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