THE BRITISH LIBRARY MORMON AMERICANA: A Bibliographical Guide to Printed Material in the British Library Relating to The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints by David J. Whittaker THE ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES 1994 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE page 3 THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS CONTEXT page 4 Bibliographies and Reference Works page 4 Historiography page 4 Selected Histories page 5 SACRED TEXTS page 6 Printings page 6 I. Bible [King James Version] plus Joseph Smith Translation page 6 2. Book of Mormon page 6 3. Doctrine and Covenants page 6 4. Pearl of Great Price page 6 Studies of Mormon Scriptures page 7 PULPIT LITERATURE [Discourses; Epistles; Official Pronouncements] page 8 MUSIC, DRAMA AND ART page 9 Published Hymnals page 9 The Performing and Visual Arts page 9 PAMPHLET LITERATURE page /0 Mormon page 10 Responses to Mormon page 11 PERIODICALS page 15 Official Publications page 15 Professional Periodicals page 15 BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND SOURCES page 16 BIOGRAPHY page 20 HISTORIES page 22 Interpretative/Comparative Works page 22 Mormon Historiography page 25 New York and Pennsylvania Period (1816-1831) page 26 Ohio Period (1831-1838) page 27 Missouri Period (183 1-1839) page 28 I. Jackson County Period (183 1-33) page 28 2. Clay and Ray County Period (1833-37) page 28 HISTORIES continued Missouri Period (183 1-1839) continued 3. Daviess and Caldwell County Period (1837-39) page 28 Illinois Period (1839-1846) page 28 Iowa Sojourn and the Trek West (1846-1852) page 30 Early Pioneer Period (1847-1869) page 30 Late Pioneer Period (1869-1896) page 35 Utah Statehood to the Great Depression (1896-1936) page 37 World War Two to 1960 page 38 Late Twentieth-Century page 39 ECONOMIC HISTORY page 40 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY page 41 MORMONS AND AMERICAN SOCIETY page 42 MORMONS AND MEDICINE page 43 MORMON THOUGHT page 44 THE BOOK IN MORMONISM MISSIOLOGY, EMIGRATION AND REGIONAL STUDIES page 46 STUDIES OF WOMEN AND THE MORMON FAMILY page 48 CURIOSA, EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL LITERATURE page 51 MORMONS AND LITERATURE AND PUBLIC IMAGE page 57 EDUCATION page 59 FOLKLORE page 60 DISSENTING GROUPS page 61 General Studies/Guides page 61 Strangites page 61 Reorganized LDS Church page 61 Other Groups page 61 MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES/REFERENCES page 63 PREFACE The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly referred to as the Mormon Church, was organized in Fayette, New York on 6 April 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. and several of his initial followers, following a series of religious visions and the publication of the Book of Mormon. By 1831 the Church had established itself in Ohio and Missouri and, following much persecution, from 1839 to 1846 in Nauvoo, Illinois. In June 1844 Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum were murdered by a mob in Carthage, Illinois. In 1846, under the leadership of Brigham Young, the majority of the Church began their epic trek to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, arriving in what would become the State of Utah in July 1847. Before Brigham Young’s death in 1877, over 350 communities were established in the Great Basin; about another 100 were established after 1877, in such areas as southern Alberta Canada and in northern Mexico. Many of these were colonized by the large number of people converted by Mormon missionaries, particularly from the British Isles and Scandinavia (some 80,000 just from these areas). Today Mormons are found throughout the world, with a total membership of over eight million (October 1993). The movement has more than doubled its membership every decade in the 20th century, making it one of the fastest growing religions in the world. As an American and a world religion, the Mormon Church is a fascinating topic for serious study. Its members have been record-keepers from its earliest days and thus it is one of the most richly documented American-born religions. This selected bibliography seeks to provide a basic guide to the more important studies of the history of the LDS Church, the majority of which are available in the British Library. David J. Whittaker THE AMERICAN RELIGIOUS CONTEXT BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE WORKS AHLSTROM, SYDNEY E., “A Bibliography of Religious History in Its American Setting,” in American Studies, Topics and Sources edited by Robert H. Walker. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1976), pp. 10-21. (X.520111675) BURR, NELSON, COMPILER, A Critical Bibliography of Religion in America, 2 Vols. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1961). (Ac.1833.kb) - Religion in American Life Goldentree Bibliographies in American History. (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1971). (3(100/11528) CARROLL, JACKSON W., DOUGLAS W. JOHNSON, AND MARTIN E. MARTY, Religion in America, 1950 to the Present. (New York: Harper and Row, 1979). (X.205/1738) GAUSTAD, EDWIN S., Historical Atlas of Religion in America. (New York: Harper and Row, revised edition, 1976). (Maps5l .b.59) HANDY, ROBERT T., ET AL., EDS., American Christianity 2 Vols. (New York: Scribner, 1960, 1962). (4664.ff.35) LIPPY, CHARLES, ANSI) PETER WILLIAMS, EDS. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience 3 Vols. (New York: Scribner’s, 1988). MEAD, FRANK S. Handbook of Denominations in the United States. (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 6th edition, 1975). (X.200/32165) MELTON, J. GORDON, Religious Bodies in the United States: A Directory. (New York: Garland, rev, and expanded edition, 1992). (YC.1992.a.2853) - Encyclopedia of American Religions 2 Vols. (Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 4th edition, 1993). (AA.AA.c) MELTON, J. GORDON AND MICHAEL A. KOSZEGI, Religious Information Sources: A Worldwide Guide 2 Vols. (New York: Garland, 1992). (YC.1993.a.1369) NOLL, MARK A., ET AL., EDS. Christianity in America: A Handbook. (Tring: Lion, 1983). (3(200/44645) WILSON, JOHN F., ED., Church and State in America: A Bibliographical Guide 2 Vols. (New York: Greenwood, 1986, 1987), Volume 1: The Colonial and Early National Periods (2725.d.435); Volume 2: The Civil War to the Present Day (2725.d.728) WILSON, JOHN F. AND THOMAS P. SLAVENS, Research Guide to Religious Studies. (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1982). (3(200/40374) HISTORIOGRAPHY BRAUER, JERALD C., “Changing Perspectives on Religion in America,” in Reinterpretation in American Church History, edited by Brauer. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1968), pp. 1-28. (3(100/6893) GAUSTAD, EDWIN S. Religion in America: History and Historiography (Washington, DC: American Historical Association Pamphlets, 1973). LANKFORD, JOHN, “The Recovery of American Religious History: Developments Since 1964,” Anglican Theological Review 55 (January 1973):78-91. LOTZ, DAVID W. WITH DONALD W. SCHRIVER, JR. AND JOHN F. WILSON, EDS. Altered Landscaped: Christianity in America,1935-1985.(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989). (YC.1992.b.5698) MAY, HENRY F. “The Recovery of American Religious History,” American Historical Review 70. (October 1964):79-92. (P.P.3437.baa) SELECTED HISTORIES AHLSTROM, SYDNEY E. A Religious History of the American People. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972). (3(203/468) BOZEMAN, THEODORE DWIGHT, To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism. (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1988). (YC.1 989.b.1 889) BUTLER, JON, Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990). (YC.1991.b.3908) CROSS, WHITNEY R., The Burned-Over District: A Social and Intellectual History of Enthusiastic Religion in Western New York, 1800-1850. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1950). (4744.i.8) GAUSTAD, EDWIN S., A Religious History of America. (New York: Harper and Row, 1966). (3(100/3364) - Dissent in American Religion. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1973). (3(200/8787) - ED., The Rise of Adventi.cm: Religion and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America. (New York: Harper and Row, 1974). (Mic.A.10833) HANDY, ROBERT T., A History of the Churches in the United States and Canada. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976). (X.200/30813) HATCH, NATHAN 0., The Democratization of American Christianity. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989). (YC.1990.b.3825) HATCH, NATHAN O. AND MARK A. NOLL, The Bible in America: Essays in Cultural History. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982). (3(200/39467) HUDSON, WINTHROP S., Religion in America. (New York: Scribner, 1965). (3(100/5979) MCLOUGHLIN, WILLIAM G., Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1978). (3(200/31960) MARTY, MARTIN E., Pilgrims in their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1984). (YA.1990.b.2801) MEAD, SIDNEY E., The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America. (New York: Harper and Row, 1963). (3(200/6577) NOLL, MARK A., A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. (London: SPCK, 1992). (YC.1993.b.5913) NOLL, MARK A., ED., Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the 1980s. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990). (YC. 1991 .a.3708) OLMSTEAD, CLIFFORD E., History of Religion in the United States. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1960). (4536.g.22) TYLER, ALICE FELT, Freedom’s Ferment: Phases of American Social History to 1860. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1944). (10413.t.24) ZARETSKY, IRVING I. AND MARK P. LEONE, EDS., Religious Movements in Contemporary America. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977). (X. 100/17110) SACRED TEXTS PRINTINGS I Bible [King James Version] plus Joseph Smith Translation 2 Book of Mormon The Book of Mormon; an Account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi.…By Joseph Smith, Junior, author and proprietor. (Palmyra, NY: E.B. Grandin for the author, 1830). (C.58.d.10) [Flake #595] [Flake references are to Chad Flake, A Mormon Bibliography] The Book of Mormon.