‘Revelation and relation’ — For much of LDS history, ‘Mormon royalty’ reigned among apostles

LDS Church President Dallin Oaks is poised to pick another new apostle. This is a big responsibility with potentially big ...
Religion Dispatches

Why We Stay: What the History of Mormonism Reveals About the Origins of “Race”

What inspired you to write Race and the Making of the Mormon People? Let me be a bit confessional. I’m not a Mormon, but Mormon culture has probably formed me more than any other religious culture ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Commentary: The current ‘golden age’ of Mormon studies may be losing its luster

At an academic gathering in 2011, the distinguished historian Richard Bushman declared that we had entered a “golden age” for Mormon studies. The setting was an academic conference held in the ...
Publishers Weekly

People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture

With his fourth book on Mormonism, Givens (By the Hand of Mormon; Viper on the Hearth) earns his place as one of the great LDS scholars of his time. Students of religion, history and culture will find ...
CNN

Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution

The early history of the LDS Church is one of persecution and violence. Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), commonly known as the Mormons, was killed by ...