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2014 MORMON Volume 1 Neal A. STUDIES for Religious Scholarship REVIEW

EDITOR J. Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University

ASSOCIATE EDITORS D. Morgan Davis, Brigham Young University Benjamin E. Park, University of Cambridge

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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 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

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“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 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

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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

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