Mormon Studies Review Volume 4 | Number 1 Article 25 1-1-2017 Mormon Studies Review Volume 4 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 (2017) "Mormon Studies Review Volume 4," Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 4 : No. 1 , Article 25. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol4/iss1/25 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 4 2017 MORMON Volume 4 STUDIES Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship REVIEW Brigham Young University Editor-in-chief J. Spencer Fluhman, Brigham Young University MANAGING EDITOR D. 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Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, or Mormon Studies Review’s editors or staff. Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship J. Spencer Fluhman, Executive Director ∞ The 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 Printed in the United States of America maxwellinstitute.byu.edu https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol4/iss1/25 2 Review: <em>Mormon Studies Review</em> Volume 4 Contents Essays Mormonism and Anthropology: On Ways of Knowing 1 Fenella Cannell Mormon Scholars and Mormon Families in Family Studies: A Brief Retrospective 16 David C. Dollahite, Loren D. Marks, and Heather Howell Kelley Review Essays The Peculiar Mormon Paradox 41 Molly Worthen Still the Seed of Abraham? 56 David A. Hollinger The New Mormon Theology of Matter 64 Rosalynde Welch Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017 3 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 4 [2017], No. 1, Art. 25 iv Contents Review Panels Jill Mulvay Derr, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds., The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History 80 Reviewed by Dave Hall, Susanna Morrill, and Catherine A. Brekus Joanna Brooks, Rachel Hunt Steenblick, and Hannah Wheelwright, eds., Mormon Feminism: Essential Writings 95 Reviewed by Anthea Butler, Martha Bradley-Evans, and Taylor G. Petrey Book Reviews Kate Holbrook and Matthew Bowman, eds., Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 108 Reviewed by Amy Hoyt Martha Bradley-Evans, Glorious in Persecution: Joseph Smith/American Prophet, 1839–1844 113 Reviewed by Richard Lyman Bushman Russell W. Stevenson, For the Cause of Righteousness: A Global History of Blacks and Mormonism, 1830–2013; Matthew L. Harris and Newell G. Bringhurst, eds., The Mormon Church and Blacks: A Documentary History 118 Reviewed by Quincy D. Newell Nathan Thatcher, Paco 125 Reviewed by Michael Hicks https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol4/iss1/25 4 Review: <em>Mormon Studies Review</em> Volume 4 Contents v Terryl L. Givens and Reid L. Neilson, eds., The Columbia Sourcebook of Mormons in the United States 129 Reviewed by Max Perry Mueller John G. Turner, The Mormon Jesus: A Biography 137 Reviewed by Paul Harvey Dave Hall, A Faded Legacy: Amy Brown Lyman and Mormon Women’s Activism, 1872–1959 143 Reviewed by Susan Sessions Rugh Ignacio M. García, Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith 146 Reviewed by Rudy V. Busto Mark A. Scherer, The Journey of a People: The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844; The Journey of a People: The Era of Reorganization, 1844 to 1946; The Journey of a People: The Era of Worldwide Community, 1946 to 2015 153 Reviewed by Chrystal Vanel Andrew H. Hedges, Alex D. Smith, and Brent M. Rogers, eds., Journals, Volume 3: May 1843–June 1844 159 Reviewed by Michael Pasquier Royal Skousen and Robin Scott Jensen, eds., Revelations and Translations, Volume 3, Parts 1 and 2: Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon 163 Reviewed by Paul Gutjahr Dan Vogel, ed., History of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 168 Reviewed by Robin Scott Jensen Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2017 5 Mormon Studies Review, Vol. 4 [2017], No. 1, Art. 25 vi Contents Richard Francaviglia, The Mapmakers of New Zion: A Cartographic History of Mormonism 175 Reviewed by Craig S. Campbell Thomas Carter, Building Zion: The Material World of Mormon Settlement 180 Reviewed by Paul G. Monson Gordon Shepherd and Gary Shepherd, A Kingdom Transformed: Early Mormonism and the Modern LDS Church 185 Reviewed by Bradley M. Jones Letter to the Editor David G. Stewart Jr. and Matthew Martinich 191 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol4/iss1/25 6 Review: <em>Mormon Studies Review</em> Volume 4 Essays Mormonism and Anthropology: On Ways of Knowing Fenella Cannell What will happen to me when I die? What will occur tomorrow? next week? in a thousand years? How did everything begin? How will it all end? We all want to know more than we can know. Religion gives order to people’s emotions and meaning to their lives. The way any religion does so raises problems even as it solves others. This is the nature of a dynamic system. Normal procedures have unsettling by-products.—William A. Christian Jr.1 If I have a spiritual gift it is perhaps an immense capacity for doubt.—Terryl Givens2 When William Christian, that exemplary historian and anthropologist of Christian practice, suggested that, through its “normal procedures,” “any religion . raises problems even as it solves others,” he was writing not about Latter-day Saints but about Roman Catholics. Specifically, he was describing popular visions of the Virgin Mary, often centering on 1. William A. Christian Jr., Visionaries: