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.
Mormon Studies Review (ISSN 2156-8022) is published once a year in January 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 re- quests to Permissions Manager, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602.
Subscriptions. Annual subscriptions (one issue per year) are $30. To subscribe, please visit: http://maxwellinstitute.byu.edu/subscribe/; phone 800-327-6715; or write: Sub- scriptions, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young Univer- sity, Provo, UT 84602.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Mormon Studies Review, Neal A. Maxwell In- stitute 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].
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