I'm actually a Professor of Religion specializing in Religion in America. My PhD dissertation was on Mormon history as well, so this is kind of my thing. If you want to email me I will be happy to respond, though at a snail's pace as life is quite busy at the moment.
Armand Mauss, eminent LDS sociologist (and relatively objective researcher), created this 16 page file a few years ago and I have copied and pasted below. Sorry for the length, but you can see the literature base in Mormonism is quite rich.
One thing to mention to you is you might find Quinn's work on the The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mormon-Hierarchy-Origins-Power/dp/1560850566and
The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
http://www.amazon.com/The-Mormon-Hierarchy-Extensions-Power/dp/1560850604/ref=pd_sim_b_1/180-1268119-0901330?ie=UTF8&refRID=0VDR232Z8S45PA3CVT8XThree additional "must reads" on Mormon foundations include:
An Insider's View of Mormon Origins
http://www.amazon.com/An-Insiders-View-Mormon-Origins/dp/1560851570/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0BR8N8A0VBZE20T13FGPand
No Man Knows My History
http://www.amazon.com/No-Man-Knows-My-History/dp/0679730540/ref=pd_sim_b_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0BR8N8A0VBZE20T13FGPand
The Refiner's Fire
http://www.amazon.com/Refiners-Fire-Making-Cosmology-1644-1844/dp/0521565642/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1428811165&sr=1-1&keywords=the+refiners+fireI hope this helps!
Here's the file from Mauss:
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THE LITERATURE BASE FOR MORMON STUDIES
AS A DISTINCT ACADEMIC SUBDISCIPLINE
Armand L. Mauss
INTRODUCTION
The study of Mormons as a separate academic subdiscipline developed gradually from the middle to the end of the twentieth century. In its chronology and trajectory, this development was not unlike that of Religious Studies more generally: At midcentury, Mormon Studies had a very small literature base and was generally not recognized by scholars in history, religion, or the social sciences as an important subdiscipline. In history and in the social sciences, at least, the dominant academic paradigm for the study of religion, including Mormonism, assumed that the secularization process, so inevitable in modern societies, would eventually transform all “sects” into “churches” and thence into societal assimilation and irrelevance. The emergence of Religious Studies, and of the Sociology of Religion, as viable and indispensible subdisciplines was stimulated by the unexpected rise of new religious movements (NRMs) and by various expressions of religious fundamentalism starting in the late 1960s. These developments, in turn, required, a serious reassessment, before the end of the century, of the time-honored “secularization” assumption, and a new agenda, guided by a new paradigm, for the academic study of religion.
The study of Mormons by social scientists and historians grew in scope and depth as part of this same general resurgence, but other important factors contributed as well. One contributing factor was a rapid rise after mid-century in the general socio-economic status of Mormons, particular in average education level, as Mormon veterans of World War II took advantage of the educational benefits of the “G. I. Bill” to seek college degrees, including advanced degrees, often outside of Utah. Some of these young scholars opted for academic careers in the social sciences, history, and the humanities, where they began to devote some of their career efforts to studies of their own religious heritage. Another contributing factor was the decision by the LDS leadership itself, at least temporarily during the 1970s, to sponsor the research and publication of academic histories of its church and people ( Walker et al. 2001, Chapter 3; Arrington 1998). At about the same time, the church created its own Research Information Division, an internal social research enterprise that thrives to the present day (Walker et al. 2001: 160-63). Still another contributing factor was the decision by a key editor at the University of Illinois Press, starting in the mid-1960s, to build a special “Mormon list” of academic studies of Mormons and Mormonism, a list that grew rapidly during the ensuing decades. In any case, for more than one reason, a genuine, non-polemical, scholarly literature on the Mormons has greatly proliferated since the 1950s (Walker et al. 2001: Chapters 3 and 5). We shall begin with a review of the major publishers responsible for this literature.
MAJOR PUBLISHERS OF SCHOLARLY LITERATURE ON THE MORMONS
Book Publishers
As indicated above, the University of Illinois Press became the single most prolific publisher of Mormon-related scholarly works between 1965 and 2005, producing nearly seventy titles, most of which are still in print (www.press.uillinois.edu). The impetus for this rather surprising development might have come from the unexpected success of two of the earliest products of this initiative at Illinois (Flanders 1965 and Oaks & Hill 1975), both of which focused on the brief but dramatic Mormon chapter in Illinois state history. The full development of the Mormon list at this university press would not have occurred, however, without the enterprise of one of the senior editors, Elizabeth Dulany, who took a special interest in building that list for her own reasons. Not a Mormon herself, Dulany might have simply considered the historic Mormon connection with Illinois (1839-1846) to be a fruitful source of new and unexploited scholarly material. She might also have been influenced by her friendship with Jan Shipps, nationally the best known non-Mormon scholar in Mormon studies. Whatever the reasons, it would be fair to say that the University of Illinois Press is disproportionately responsible for the creation of the solid literature base on which the new subdiscipline of Mormon Studies has been built to date. Most of these works are historical in nature, but many of them have also come out of various other disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities.
University presses in Utah have also been important publishers of books on Mormon subjects, but not to the extent that one might perhaps expect in a state that is so predominantly Mormon in population. The University of Utah Press (www.uofupress.com) had periodically published a few important works on Mormons all along (e. g. Ericksen 1975; Embry 1987; Fife and Fife 1980; Nelson 1952; Shepherd and Shepherd 1984); but in the 1980s an editorial decision was apparently made to relinquish such publishing to others, perhaps because of the constant political strains between Mormons and non-Mormons on the editorial board and on the university faculty more generally. The recent publication of a biography of an important mid-twentieth century president of the church (Prince and Wright 2005) might signal an end to that press’s boycott of Mormon studies.
The Utah State University Press in Logan (www.usu.edu/usupress) has not been reluctant to publish important historical and other works on Mormons in recent decades (e. g. Bush 2004; Card et al. 1990; Gerlach 1982; Tullis 1987), but its resources have not made possible a great breadth and variety. Brigham Young University attempted to maintain a press during the 1960s and 1970s, but lately this press is little more than a logo used occasionally on publications under the auspices of certain specific university units, such as the Religious Studies Center or the periodical BYU Studies. Such books as have appeared in history or the social sciences have usually been published under these special auspices or else in collaboration with other presses. Outside of Utah and Illinois, a few other university presses have also taken on Mormon-related books, as will be apparent from a glance down the bibliography provided at the end of this essay. Most prominent among these is the Oxford University Press, which has recently published several such books, but the University of Oklahoma Press has recently decided to expand its Mormon list.
Of the strictly commercial presses, by far the most important one in Mormon Studies is Signature Books, based in Salt Lake City, which has produced a number of distinguished scholarly works about Mormons, both in history and in current issues, since its inception in 1980 (www.signaturebooks.com). Some of its books have been quite critical, at least implicitly, of traditional Mormon truth-claims, policies, or practices, which have made it less appealing to both authors and readers of a more orthodox bent. Nevertheless, it is the single most prolific commercial publisher of scholarly works on the Mormons. Greg Kofford Books of Salt Lake City (www.koffordbooks.com) also specializes in Mormon Studies, but it is a much newer and smaller operation and rather a specialized publisher in limited editions of important works that might not otherwise be published. So far it has published works in history and theology, with little or nothing in other disciplines. Not surprisingly, the biggest commercial publisher of Mormon-related works in the world is the Deseret Book Company, based in Salt Lake City, and controlled by the LDS Church (www.deseretbook.com). Until the 1990s, it was a major publisher of scholarly (if somewhat apologetic) works, but in recent years it has largely abandoned this field and now specializes instead in popular and devotional books, videos, CDs, accessories, and the like. There are some important exceptions to this generalization, such as its 2005 publication of an important biography of a church president (Kimball 2005), which, as the Preface to this book makes clear, was an unusual and controversial decision. With very few exceptions, then, Deseret Book today is no longer producing many books of sound and independent scholarship.
Periodical Literature in Social Science and Religion
In the social scientific study of religion, the three major journals have all carried articles on Mormons (Latter-day Saints) on a fairly regular basis since the mid-1960s, and with increasing frequency in more recent years : (1) The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (www.sssrweb.org >JSSR); (2) The Review of Religious Research (http://rra.hartsem.edu >RRR) – based at the Hartford Seminary; and (3) the Sociology of Religion, formerly Sociological Analysis (www.sociologyofreligion.com), all of which are published by parent scholarly societies. Any bibliographic search not including these journals would be woefully inadequate for anyone studying Mormons. The mainstream journals of sociology, whether national (American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Social Forces) or regional (e. g. Social Inquiry and Sociological Perspectives, formerly the Pacific Sociological Review), have carried articles on Mormons much less frequently. The journals of such sister disciplines as anthropology and psychology have carried articles on Mormons even more rarely (but browse www.ingentaconnect.com and www.psywww.com/psyrelig > Resources for Further Study > Index of Primary Journals). An interesting development of the past two decades or so is the growing interest in religion by scholars in the discipline of economics, who have contributed significantly to the creation of the “new paradigm” mentioned earlier. (www.religionomics.com). A few articles about Mormons have begun to appear in the pages of journals in economics (e. g. Journal of Political Economy), and Mormons are often featured as exemplifying many of the propositions in the new paradigm more generally (Stark and Finke 2000).
Scholarly Societies and Periodicals from the Mormon Subculture Itself
The generation of Mormon scholars which newly emerged at midcentury began founding its own scholarly societies and journals soon after finishing their graduate degrees. Most of these new institutions are interdisciplinary, but theology, history and the social sciences have been the main preoccupations. Nearly all have been founded and maintained entirely independent of church control, sometimes to the dismay of the more conservative church leaders. While these publications include personal essays, devotional articles, fiction, and poetry, they are also the most important periodicals of serious and competent historical and social science scholarship on the Mormons. Most are carefully refereed by expert peers, including many scholars who happen to be non-Mormons or lapsed Mormons. Premier among these journals is Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, but the others are all produced with equal competence. Following is a brief description of each in the chronological order of its founding.
Brigham Young University Studies or BYU Studies (1959 - ). Edited and published quarterly in Provo, Utah, at BYU. Articles in theology, history, and the social sciences are peer reviewed and generally of strong scholarly calibre, but given the official Church auspices, the editorial policy is cautious and faith-affirming. Articles vary among research-based pieces, personal essays, fiction, and poetry (http://byustudies.byu.edu >Products>Articles).
Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought (1966 - ). Published quarterly in Salt Lake City but edited in various locations depending on the residence of the editor. Independently owned and published by the Dialogue Foundation of Salt Lake City. Articles are peer reviewed and generally of strong scholarly calibre. Like BYU Studies, each issue contains different kinds of articles, many of which deal with current Mormon history or social issues, including some rather controversial ones. Dialogue produces a DVD containing all back issues, fully indexed, searchable, and updated biennially (www.dialoguejournal.com).
Journal of Mormon History, or JMH (1974 - ). Published annually, 1974-91, then semi-annually from 1992-2004, and thereafter thrice annually. Independently owned and published by the 1200-member Mormon History Association (est.1965) in Salt Lake City. This Association holds annual conferences at various sites of special historical significance for Mormons in the U. S. and elsewhere. Articles are peer reviewed, generally of strong scholarly calibre, and exclusively historical in nature, though sometimes recent or current history. This journal too produces a DVD containing all back issues, fully indexed, searchable, and updated periodically (www.mhahome.org).
Sunstone (1975 - ). Edited and published in Salt Lake City in glossy magazine format, usually four or five times annually. It is independently owned by the Sunstone Foundation of Salt Lake City, which also sponsors the annual Sunstone Symposium in Utah each summer, as well as smaller regional symposia at other times of the year. Not a scholarly journal in the usual sense, Sunstone is nevertheless a “high-brow” magazine for intellectuals, featuring shorter articles than those found in the other periodicals. Many of the articles are substantial scholarly treatments of theological, historical, or current social issues. Of all the publications mentioned here, Sunstone is the one most likely to publish controversial and even irreverent articles, stories, letters, news items, and cartoons (www.sunstoneonline.com).
Mormon Social Science Assocation (MSSA): Founded in the late 1970s as the “Society for the Sociological Study of Mormon Life” (SSSML), this society changed its cumbersome name in the mid-1990s. It originally met with the annual conferences of the Pacific Sociological Association, but since the mid-1980s it has met with the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and has sponsored two or three special sessions in each of that society’s annual conferences. It sponsors the Glenn M. Vernon Memorial Lecture in alternate years. It has a membership of fewer than a hundred, perhaps a third of whom are occasional attendees or participants in the SSSR/MSSA conferences, and it publishes a semi-annual Newsletter (www.mormonsocialscience.org). MSSA sponsored and paid for the production of the September, 1984, issue of the Review of Religious Research containing a special collection of Mormon-related articles. A collection of essays marking the 50th anniversary of Thomas F. O’Dea’s The Mormons, currently in press, was sponsored by the MSSA.
John Whitmer Historical Association Journal (1981 - ) is published annually by the John Whitmer Historical Association of Independence, Missouri, a scholarly society founded by members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS), recently renamed The Community of Christ. The editorial office moves depending on the residence of the editor, but it is usually located in the Midwest. The JWHA Journal publishes peer-reviewed articles of strong scholarly calibre with special focus on the history and experience of members of the RLDS Church (or Community of Christ), although many of its articles are also relevant to the Utah Mormon experience, and some of its authors are members of the Utah-based church (www.jwha.info).
COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF SCHOLARLY BOOKS ON THE MORMONS
NOTE : This list of books is not exhaustive, but it represents the great majority of scholarly books published on the Mormons since the middle of the twentieth century, with a special focus on history and the social sciences. Many other books have been published in theology, literature, and the fine arts within the Mormon faith community, but they are not cited here. Descriptions of the most important publishers in Mormon Studies have been provided above. Notice particularly, though, how many of these books have been published by respectable university or commercial presses outside of Utah.
Alexander, Thomas G. 1986. Mormonism in Transition: A History of the Latter-day Saints, 1890-1930. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
______, ed. 1991. Great Basin Kingdom Revisited: Contemporary Perspectives. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
Allen, James B. and Glen M. Leonard. 1992. The Story of the Latter-day Saints. 2nd Ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co.
______, Ronald K. Esplin, and David J. Whittaker. 1992. Men with a Mission: The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the British Isles, 1837-1841. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co.
______, Ronald W. Walker, and David J. Whittaker. 2000. Studies in Mormon History, 1830-1997: An Indexed Bibliography. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (with a Topical Guide to Social Science Literature on the Mormons).
Altman, I and J. Ginat. 1996. Polygamous Families in Contemporary Society. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Anderson, C. LeRoy. 1981. For Christ Will Come Tomorrow: The Saga of the Morrisites. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
Anderson, Nels. 1968 [1942]. Desert Saints: The Mormon Frontier in Utah. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Arrington, Leonard J. 2004 [1958]. Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter- day Saints. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2nd Edition: University of Illinois Press.
______. 1985. Brigham Young: American Moses. New York: A. A. Knopf.
______. 1998. Adventures of a Church Historian. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
______ and Davis Bitton. 1992. The Mormon Experience. 2nd Ed. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press (originally A. A. Knopf, 1979)
______, Feramorz Fox, and Dean L. May. 1976. Building the City of God: Community and Cooperation among the Mormons. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
Backman, Milton V. 1983. The Heavens Resound: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Ohio, 1830-1838. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
Bagley, Will. 2002. Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Baer, Hans A. 1988. Recreating Utopia in the Desert: A Sectarian Challenge to Mormonism. Albany: SUNY Press.
Bahr, Howard M., Spencer J. Condie, and Kristen L. Goodman. 1982. Life in Large Families: Views of Mormon Women (Washington, DC: University Press of America.
Barlow, Philip L. 1991. Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion. New York: Oxford University Press.
Beecher, Maureen U. and Lavina F. Anderson, eds. 1987. Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Bennett, Richard E. 2004. Mormons at the Missouri, 1846-1852. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2nd edition
______. 1997. We’ll Find the Place: The Mormon Exodus, 1846-1848. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co.
Bennion, Janet. 1998. Women of Principle: Female Networking in Contemporary Mormon Polygyny. New York: Oxford University Press.
______. 2004. Desert Patriarchy: Mormon and Mennonite Communities in the Chihuahua Valley. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Bergera, Gary J. and Ronald Priddis. 1985. Brigham Young University: A House of Faith. Salt Lake City: Signature Books
Bitton, Davis. 1994. The Ritualization of Mormon History and Other Essays. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
______, and Leonard J. Arrington. 1988. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Bloxham, V. B., J. R. Moss, and L. C. Ported, eds. 1987. Truth Will Prevail: The Rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles, 1837-1987. Solihull, England: Church of J. C. of L. D. S.
Bloom, Harold.1992. The American Religion: The Emergence of a Post-Christian Nation. New York: Simon and Schuster (Part II, 77-128, deals with the Mormons).
Brady, Frederick R. 1979. The Japanese Reaction to Mormonism and the Translation of Mormon Scripture into Japanese. Tokyo, Japan: Sophia University Press.
Bradley, Martha S. 1993. Kidnapped from that Land: The Government Raids on the Short Creek Polygamists. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
______. 2005. Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority, and Equal Rights. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
Bringhurst, Newell G. 1981. Saints, Slaves, and Blacks: The Changing Place of Black People within Mormonism. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
______. 1986. Brigham Young and the Expanding American Frontier. Little, Brown & Co. (paperback)
______. 1999. Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer’s Life. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
______, and Lavina Fielding Anderson, eds. 2004. Excavating the Mormon Pasts: The New Historiography of the Last Half Century. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books.
______, and Darron T. Smith, eds. 2004. Black and Mormon. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Britsch, R. Lanier. 1986. Unto the Islands of the Sea: A History of the Latter-day Saints in the Pacific. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
______. 1998. From the East: A History of the Latter-day Saints in Asia, 1851- 1996. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
Brodie, Fawn M. 1945. No Man Knows My History: The Story of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. New York: Alfred Knopf. (2nd edition 1971).
Brooke, John L. 1994. The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644- 1844. Cambridge University Press.
Brooks, Juanita.1950. The Mountain Meadows Massacre. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Brown, S. K., D. Q. Cannon, and R. H. Jackson, eds. 1994. Historical Atlas of Mormonism. Simon & Schuster.
Browning, Gary L. 1997. Russia and the Restored Gospel. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co.
Bush, Laura L. 2004. Faithful Transgressions in the American West: Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women’s Autobiographical Acts. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
Bush, Lester E. Jr. 1993. Health and Medicine among the Latter-day Saints: Science, Sense, and Scripture. New York: Crossroad.
Bush, Lester E. and Armand L. Mauss, eds. 1984. Neither White nor Black: Mormon Scholars Confront the Race Issue in a Universal Church. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
Bushman, Claudia L., ed. 1997 [1976]. Mormon Sisters: Women in Early Utah. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
______. 2006. Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America. Westport, CT: Praeger
______ and Richard L. Bushman. 2001. Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America. New York: Oxford University Press
Bushman, Richard L. 1984. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
______. 2005. Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling: A Cultural Biography of Mormonism’s Founder. New York: Alfred Knopf.
Campbell, Eugene E. 1988. Establishing Zion: The Mormon Church in the American West. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
Card, Brigham Y., Herbert C. Northcott, John E. Foster, Howard Palmer, and George K. Jarvis, eds. 1990. The Mormon Presence in Canada. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, and Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
Christensen, S. R. 1999. Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftain, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887. Logan, UT : Utah State University Press.
Compton, Todd. 1997. In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
Cooper, Rex E. 1990. Promises Made to the Fathers: Mormon Covenant Organization. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Corcoran, Brent D., ed. 1994. Multiply and Replenish: Mormon Essays on Sex and the Family. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
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Cornwall, Marie, Tim B. Heaton, and Lawrence A. Young, eds. 1994. Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Cowan, Richard O. 1985. The Church in the Twentieth Century. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft.
Cuch, F. S., ed. 2000. A History of Utah’s American Indians. Logan: Utah State University Press.
Cuthbert, Derek A. 1987. The Second Century: Latter-day Saints in Great Britain, 1937-1987. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Davies, Douglas J., ed. 1996. Mormon Identities in Transition. UK: Cassell
______. 2000. The Mormon Culture of Salvation: Force, Grace, and Glory. UK: Ashgate Publishing.
______. 2003. An Introduction to Mormonism. UK: Cambridge University Press.
Daynes, Kathryn M. 2001. More Wives than One: Transformation of the Mormon Marriage System, 1840-1910. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Derr, Jill M., J. R. Cannon, and M. U. Beecher. 1992. Women of the Covenant: The Story of the Relief Society. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
Duke, James T., ed. 1998. Latter-day Saint Social Life: Social Research on the LDS Church and Its Members. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University.
Dyer, William G. and Phillip R. Kunz. 1986. Effective Mormon Families: How They See Themselves. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co.
Edwards, Paul M. 1984. Preface to Faith: A Philosophical Inquiry into RLDS Beliefs. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
______. 1991. Our Legacy of Faith: A Brief History of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House.
Eliason, Eric A. ed. 2001. Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Embry, Jessie L. 1987. Mormon Polygamous Families: Life in the Principle. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
______. 1994. Black Saints in a White Church: Contemporary African American Mormons. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
______. 1998. “In His Own Language:” Mormon Spanish-Speaking Congregations in the United States. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
______. 1999. Asian-American Mormons: Bridging Cultures. Provo: Charles Redd Center, Brigham Young University.
Epperson, Steven. 1992. Mormons and Jews: Early Mormon Theologies of Israel. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
Ericksen, Ephraim E. 1975 [1922]. The Psychological and Ethical Aspects of Mormon Group Life. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Evenson, William E. and Duane E. Jeffery, eds. 2005 Mormonism and Evolution: The LDS Authoritative Statements. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books.
Fife, Austin E. and Alta S. Fife. 1980 [1956]. Saints of Sage and Saddle: Folklore among the Mormons. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Finke, Roger, and Rodney Stark. 1992. The Churching of America, 1776-1990: Winners and Losers in Our Religious Economy. Rutgers University Press (historical context for the rise of Mormonism).
Firmage, Edwin B. and R. Collin Mangrum. 1988. Zion in the Courts: A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Flake, Kathleen. 2004. The Politics of American Religious Liberty: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Flanders, Robert B. 1965. Nauvoo: Kingdom on the Mississippi. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Foster, Lawrence. 1981. Religion and Sexuality: Three Communal Experiments of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press.
______. 1991. Women, Family and Utopia: Communal Experiments of the Shakers, the Oneida Community, and the Mormons. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
Francaviglia, Richard. 2003. Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin. Reno: University of Nevada Press.
Gerlach, Larry R. 1982. Blazing Crosses in Zion: The Ku Klux Klan in Utah. Logan: Utah State University Press.
Givens, Terryl L. 1997. The Viper on the Hearth: Mormons, Myths, and the Construction of Heresy. Oxford University Press.
______. 2002. By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion. New York: Oxford University Press.
______. 2004. The Latter-day Saint Experience in America. Westport, Ct.: Greenwood.
______. 2007. People of Paradox: A Cultural History of the Mormon People. New York: Oxford University Press.
Godfrey, Kenneth W., Audrey M. Godfrey, and Jill M. Derr, eds. Women’s Voices: An Untold Story of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book.
Golden, Daniel. 2006. “In Religion Studies, Universities Bend to Views of Faithful.” Wall Street Journal, April 6, A-1.
Gooren, Henri P. P. 1998. Rich among the Poor: Church, Firm, and Household among Small-Scale Entrepreneurs in Guatemala City. Utrecht: University of Utrecht Press. (Deals with Mormons and other religions new to Central America).
Gordon, Sarah Barrington. 2002. The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Hallwas, J. E. and R. D. Launius, eds. 1995. Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois. Logan: Utah State University Press.
Handley, George B., Terry B. Ball, and Steven L. Peck, eds. 2006. Stewardship and Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University.
Hanks, Maxine, ed. 1992. Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
Hansen, Klaus J. 1981 Mormonism and the American Experience. University of Chicago Press.
Hardy, B. Carmon. 1992. Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Hardy, Grant. ed. 2003. The Book of Mormon: Reader’s Edition. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Haslam, G. M. 1984. Clash of Cultures: The Norwegian Experience with Mormonism, 1842-1920. New York: Peter Lang.
Hazen, Craig J. 2000. The Village Enlightenment in America: Popular Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century. University of Illinois Press.
Heaton, Tim B., Thomas A. Hirschl, and Bruce A. Chadwick, eds. 1996. Utah in the 1990s: A Demographic Perspective. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
Heaton, Tim B., Stephen J. Bahr, and Cardell K. Jacobson. 2004. A Statistical Profile of Mormons: Health, Wealth, and Social Life. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.
Hicks, Michael. 2003 [1989]. Mormonism and Music: A History. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2nd edition.
Hill, Donna. 1977. Joseph Smith, the First Mormon. New York: Doubleday.
Hill, Marvin S. 1989. Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism. Salt Lake City: Signature Books.
Howard, Richard P. 1992. The Church through the Years Volume 1: RLDS Beginnings to 1860. Independence, MO: Herald House.
Hughes, Richard T., ed. 1988. The American Quest for the Primitive Church. University of Illinois Press. (Historical context for the rise of Mormonism).
______. 1995. The Primitive Church in the Modern World. University of Illinois Press.
Iber, Jorge. 2000. Hispanics in the Mormon Zion, 1912-1999. Texas A & M University Press.
Iversen, Joan Smyth. 1997. The Antipolygamy Controversy in U. S. Women’s Movements, 1880-1925: A Debate on the American Home. (Volume 2 in Development of American Feminism Series). New York: Garland Publishing Co.
Jensen, Richard L. and Malcolm R. Thorp, eds. 1989 Mormons in Early Victorian Britain. University of Utah Press.
Johnson, Melvin C. 2006. Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1843-1858. Logan: Utah State University Press.
Jones, Sondra. 2000. The Trial of Don Pedro Leon Lujan: The Attack against Indian Slavery and Mexican Traders in Utah. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Kern, Louis J. 1981. An Ordered Love: Sex-Roles and Sexuality in Victorian Utopias. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
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