Church History Symposium CFP: DEADLINE FEBRUARY 16, 2024

By January 23, 2024


Oct. 24-25, 2024 Biennial Symposium

Theme: “Shall the Youth of Zion Falter?” 

The Young Womenand Young Men Organizations of

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 

The Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Church History and Doctrine Department at Brigham Young University extend an open invitation for paper presentation proposals for its biennial symposium.  Please see attached call for papers for additional information regarding proposals due FEBRUARY 16, 2024 and forward this to anyone you think may be interested. 

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Ask a University Press Editor

By January 19, 2024


Crossposted from the US Religion Substack

I’m currently in the process of reframing and rewriting my dissertation as a monograph. It’s been a humbling experience. While I knew that my dissertation would need work to be ready to send to university presses, I realized that I had no idea how the publication process might go. What do I need to do to speak to an editor? Should I send in an entire manuscript, or would I only need a few chapters to start? What on earth did a book proposal look like? While presses often have very basic information on their websites, they didn’t always answer questions specific to my situation.

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BYU’s Redd Center Grants

By January 19, 2024


The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies is pleased to announce multiple awards for 2024 that are available for scholars, students, or organizations conducting research or producing public programming from any discipline that is related to the Intermountain regions of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, or Wyoming. Applications for 2024 are due by 11:59 p.m. MST on March 15, and awardees will be notified by May 1.

Applications are due March 15, 2024.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION:

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Believers and Skeptics in the Writing of Mormon History

By January 18, 2024


January 22, 2024, at 1 p.m. MST

            Scholars have hotly debated the role that faith should play within Mormon Studies. Richard Bushman, for example, has argued believing scholars should develop their own hermeneutic that recognizes the presence of God in human history. Other scholars have rejected his suggestion, asking what evidence a person would use to identify the hand of God. The role that faith should play in writing history has been particularly contentious within Mormon history. Apologists and critics of the LDS Church have long used history to try to prove or disprove its truth claims. In this webinar, five scholars will discuss the role that faith should play in writing Mormon history and the difference between academic and devotional history.

Participants:

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MHA Awards 2024 (Submissions Due on February 15)

By January 17, 2024


Be sure to nominate your work, your friend’s work, your colleague’s work, and any work that you enjoyed on Mormon history for a Mormon History Association Award!


Information about all awards: https://mormonhistoryassociation.org/awards/

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LDS Book History–Call For Applicants (Updated Deadline [January 31])

By January 16, 2024


Printing for the Youth of Zion: One Approach to the History of Latter-day Saint Print Culture

In 1831, Joseph Smith dictated a revelation on the “printing…selecting and writing books for schools in this church, that little children also may receive instruction.” (D&C 55:4) This instruction to W.W. Phelps and Oliver Cowdery established that the creation of printed material for children and youth was to be a priority for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While the effort of creating printed material for children lay largely dormant for a few decades, by the late nineteenth century, a robust print culture had developed around this goal, and it continued to gain momentum into the twentieth century.

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New Books in Mormon Studies 2024

By January 15, 2024


This year is as bounteous as nerds could have hoped for. What do you have your eye on?

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Relaunch of Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology (CFP)

By January 2, 2024


Along with its relaunch, Element: A Journal of Mormon Philosophy and Theology seeks submissions for its upcoming 2024 issue. Submissions are welcomed from students and from lay and professional philosophers alike. Papers must engage with subject matter relevant to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in an intellectually rigorous manner, and must do so through the lens of the academic disciplines of philosophy or theology. To be considered for publication in the journal’s 2024 issue, submissions must be received by April 15, 2023, and must adhere to the journal’s submission and style guides. Submissions received after this date may be considered for publication in subsequent issues.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

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2023 John Whitmer Historical Association Journal Index

By December 11, 2023


Thanks to Katherine Pollock for this list!

In 2023, The John Whitmer Historical Association Journal published twenty-three articles through a special edition for the association’s fifth anniversary (Vol 43, no.1) and the Fall/Winter Issue (Vol. 43, no. 2). Topics for these two volumes include international history (Community of Christ in England and Nigeria), women’s history, Latter-day Saint/Community of Christ interdenominational studies, art/theatre/literature, and more. The denominations published about include Community of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), and the Church of Christ (Temple Lot).

The John Whitmer Historical Association also has a full index of published articles with short descriptions and past issues (2-year wall) available on its website. Subscriptions to the journal can be made by joining the association with both physical and electronic journal options available. Journal articles can also be found in libraries and through ILL.  

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CFP: 2024 Church History Symposium

By December 3, 2023


“Shall the Youth of Zion Falter?”

The Young Women and Young Men Organizations of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Department of Church History and Doctrine at BYU and the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announce the Church History Symposium, October 24–25, 2024. The symposium will convene at Brigham Young University (October 24) and at the Church History Library in Salt Lake City (October 25). Keynote speakers include Young Women General President Emily Freeman, and Young Men General President Steven J. Lund, and Dr. Monica Mercado, Professor of Women’s Studies and North American Religions at Colgate University.

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