Mormon Studies Review Volume 3 | Number 1 Article 21 1-1-2016 Mormon Studies Review Volume 3 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) "Mormon Studies Review Volume 3," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 3 : No. 1 , Article 21. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol3/iss1/21 This Full Issue 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: <em>Mormon Studies Review</em> Volume 3 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. 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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. 21 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/iss1/21 4 Review: <em>Mormon Studies Review</em> Volume 3 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 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 3 [2016], No. 1, Art. 21 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol3/iss1/21 6 Review: <em>Mormon Studies Review</em> Volume 3 Forum: Lived Mormonism Editors’ Introduction Mormonism provides a compelling paradox for scholars: it is both powerfully institutional and richly local and participatory. Although contemporary Mormon studies by most accounts remains dominated by attention to aspects of the institutional (biographies of religious elites, intellectual history, and church history), there is also a long-standing if minority tradition of interest in the religion as it is experienced and lived in situ. As Robert Orsi has observed, lived religion, while not ignoring the institutional and historical, regards its subject more particularly “as a form of cultural work,” directing attention “to institutions and persons, texts and rituals, practice and theology, things and ideas—all as media of making and unmaking worlds.”1 The study of lived religion is aggressively interdisciplinary, drawing on social history, sociology, ethnography, folklore, material culture, and other methodological tools. The scholars in this volume’s forum assess “lived Mormonism,” both in terms of how disparate angles of inquiry might abet understanding of Mormonism and how Mormonism might enliven scholarly discussion of world Chris- tianity, globalization, and secularization. 1. Robert A. Orsi, The Madonna of 115th Street: Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880–1950, 2nd ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), xix. Mormon Studies Review, vol. 3, 2016, p. 1 © 2016 Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University Article DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18809/msr.2016.0101 Journal DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18809/mimsr.21568030