Mormon Identities in Transition

Douglas J. Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion and Director of Centre for Death and Life Studies at Durham University, UK.

• Introduction: Scholars, Saints and Mormonism Douglas J. DaviesPart I – Dimensions of Identity 1. Identity and Boundary Maintenance: International Prospects for Mormonism at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century Armand L. Mauss2. Modernity, History and Latter-Day Saint Faith L. C. Midgley3. The Book of Mormon Wars: A Non-Mormon Perspective Massimo Introvigne4. Coffee, Tea and the Ultra-Protestant and Jewish Nature of the Boundaries of Mormonism Christie Davies5. Latter-Day Saint Exceptionalism and Membership Growth James T. Duke6. Neither Mormon Nor Protestant? The Reorganized Church and the Challenge of Identity Roger D. LauniusPart II – The Expansion of Mormonism7. Ethnic American Mormons: The Development of a Community Jessie L. Embry8. Mormonism in Chile David Clark Knowlton9. Mormonism in Black Africa E. Dale LeBaron10. India: A Synopsis of Cultural Challenges Roger R. KellerPart III – Emotional and Social Life11. Childhood in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain Reflected in Some Latter-Day Sources Malcolm R. Thorp12. Guilt, Fear, Anxiety and Love: Disciplinary Councils Among Latter-Day Saints Today Melvyn Hammarberg13. An Overview of Mormonism and Mental Health Daniel K. Judd14. Commitment Making: Mate Selection Process Among Active Mormon American Couples Thomas B. HolmanPart IV – Early Mormonism15. Mormons and the Millennial World-View Grant Underwood16. Magic and Mormon Religion Douglas J. Davies17. ‘Companions and Forerunners’: English Romantics and the Restauration Gordon K. Thomas IPart V – Female Factors18. Issues in Contemporary Mormon Feminism Lynn Matthews Anderson19. ‘Choose ye this day whom ye will serve’: Latter-Day Saint Mothers’ Reaction To A Church Leader’s Instruction to Remain in the Home Bruce A. Chadwick and H. Dean GarrettPart VI – Mormon Scripture and Theology20. Does the Book of Mormon Support ‘My Country Right or Wrong,’ Just War or Pacifism? Andrew Bolton21. The Death/Rebirth Mytheme in the Book of Mormon Seth D. Kunin22. Must God Be Incorporeal? David L. PaulsenPart VII – The Future of Mormon Studies23. Mormon Studies: Progress and Prospects David J. Whittaker24. Views of an International Religion Douglas J. DaviesBibliographyIndex

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