University of North Carolina Press, 2023. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 254pp. In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning. Drawing.....
NP: Hindsight Publications (Amazon Publishing), 2023. Hardcover. 232pp. “I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.” Joseph Smith, TPJS 304 Part of a much.....
NP: Hindsight Publications (Amazon Publishing), 2023. Hardcover. 81pp. “I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.” Joseph Smith, TPJS 304 Part of a much.....
NP: Hindsight Publications, 2008. Paperback. 377 pp. For decades, the U.S. government punished the Mormons for living the principle of plural marriage. Thousand were jailed, uncounted others slipped into hiding to avoid prosecution under laws that unblushingly targeted Mormons. John Taylor, the venerable Mormon prophet also fled into the “Underground.”.....
NP, 2023. Revised edition. Paperback. 696pp. “Adam … is our Father and our God” This 1852 general conference declaration introduced Mormondom’s most hotly divisive religious dispute that continues to ignite controversy today – Adam-God teachings. Labeled among the seven deadly heresies by apostle Bruce R. McConkie after being heralded as.....
NP, nd [2023]. Paperback. 236pp. The term doctrine is commonplace in Latter-day Saint parlance. However, beyond this point not much is understood about it. No one seems to have a good idea, view, or consistent theory of doctrine. For instance, is Faith a doctrine or a principle? How about the.....
NP, nd [2023]. Paperback. 182pp. This is the second and final book in the series What is Doctrine? Principally, the book explicates five key doctrines that were found in volume 1: Free will, Intelligences, Material Existence, Natural Law, and Agency. A chapter is dedicated to each of these doctrines. The.....
Church Historian's Press, 2023. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 752pp. The fifteenth and last volume in the Documents series covers the tumultuous final six weeks of Joseph Smith’s life, illuminating especially the events that led to his death. It features one hundred and four documents, representing the core of his documentary.....
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023. Hardcover/dust jacket. 357 pp. The Mormon military experience is unique in American history. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is the only denomination to field military units for its own support and purpose rather than national interests, an effort which began.....
University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 260pp. In the nineteenth century, white Americans contrasted the perceived purity of white, middle-class women with the perceived eroticism of women of color and the working classes. The Latter-day Saint practice of polygamy challenged this separation, encouraging white women to participate in an.....
Signature Books, 2022. First printing. Paperback. 209pp. Mormonism begins with a memoir: Joseph Smith kneeling in a grove until two-thirds of the Godhead appear and promise him a quixotic religious renown. Since then, the faith Smith birthed has raised up memoirs as gritty as Parley P. Pratt’s quasi-canonical Autobiography or.....
Signature Books, 2022. First printing. Hardcover. 365pp. BEST BIOGRAPHY AWARD (MHA, 2023). While some may view Jerald and Sandra Tanner only as despised critics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it is impossible to trace the course of Mormon history over the past sixty years without acknowledging.....
Columbia University Press, 2023. First printing. Paperback. 304pp. Angel Park is a Mormon fundamentalist polygamous community where plural marriages between one man and multiple women are common. In contrast to mainstream America’s idealization of the nuclear family and romantic love, its residents esteem notions of harmonious familial love, a spiritual.....
Greg Kofford Books, 2023. First printing. Paperback. 331pp. On March 27, 1900, Frank LeSueur and Gus Gibbons joined a sheriff's posse to track and arrest five suspected outlaws. The next day, LeSueur and Gibbons, who had become separated from other posse members, were found brutally murdered. The outlaws belonged to.....
University of Minnesota Press, 2022. First printing. Paperback. 423pp. BEST BOOK AWARD (MHA, 2023). Are Mormons really so weird? Are they potentially queer? These questions occupy the heart of this powerful rethinking of Mormonism and its place in U.S. history, culture, and politics. K. Mohrman argues that Mormon peculiarity is.....
BCC Press, 2023. Second edition. Cloth/dj. 65pp. This children's book celebrates religious diversity, offering children small taste of the amazing variety found in the world's many faith traditions. This is not an academic history; rather, it summarizes each faith in its own language. We wanted kids in each group to.....
University of Utah Press, 2023. Print-on-demand. Paperback. 528pp. Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his father and his uncle, Joseph Smith Jr., the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were murdered in Carthage.....
University of Utah Press, 2023. Print-on-demand. Hardcover. 528pp. COPIES ARRIVING SOON. Joseph F. Smith was born in 1838 to Hyrum Smith and Mary Fielding Smith. Six years later both his father and his uncle, Joseph Smith Jr., the founding prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were.....
Oxford University Press, 2023. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 501pp. Published in 2008, Massacre at Mountain Meadows was a bombshell of a book, revealing the story of one of the grimmest episodes in Latter-day Saint history, when settlers in southwestern Utah slaughtered more than 100 members of a California-bound wagon train.....
Signature Books in partnership with the Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2023. First printing. Hardcover/dust jacket. 985pp. When Joseph Smith entered Kirtland, Ohio, for the first time, he had only the year before established a church and brought forth a new book of scripture, the Book of Mormon. After moving the church and.....
Dan Wees, 2023. First printing. Paperback. 125pp. Signed. This study offers exact matches found only ONCE between each book, and they highlight stories and snapshots from the Book of Mormon - showing their likely origins from the books of the Apocrypha. Though there are hundreds of comparisons, they are not.....