University of Illinois Press, 2024. First printing. Paperback. 122 pp. In the early and mid-twentieth century, Joseph Fielding Smith’s (1876–1972) life as a public historian and theologian shaped the religious worldview of generations of Latter-day Saints. Matthew Bowman examines Smith’s ideas and his place in American religious history. Smith achieved.....

New York: Random House, 2012. First printing. Paperback. 336 pp. Reg. $17.00. Remainder marks. With Mormonism on the nation’s radar as never before, religious historian Matthew Bowman has written an essential book that pulls back the curtain on more than 180 years of Mormon history and doctrine. He recounts the.....

Signature Books, 2025. Print-on-demand. Hardcover/dust jacket. 243 pp. In one of the most unlikely coups in college basketball history, a religious school in Utah signed basketball phenomenon AJ Dybantsa. He will play for Brigham Young University—hardly the sort of basketball powerhouse that typically attracts exceptional and non-Mormon players like him.....