JOB AD: LDS Church History Department, Historic Sites Registrar

POSTING INFO

Posting Dates: 12/15/2021 – 01/09/2022

Job Family: Library, Research & Preservation

Department: Church History Department

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JOB AD: Assistant Professor of Church History & Doctrine at BYU

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Job Title:  Church History & Doctrine Professorial CFS Track

Job Classification: CFS-Professorial 

Required Degree: PhD

Posting close date: January 10, 2022

Start date of this position:  July 1, 2022

Religious Education and the Department of Church History & Doctrine at BYU

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2022 Forthcoming Titles in Mormon History

2022 MHA will be in Logan. The only way to make sure that you’ll have room in your suitcases for everything you buy at exhibits there is to get your shopping done in a way that allows you to only pack a single bag for MHA travels. Plan ahead! 

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2021’s Notable Books, Book Chapters and Articles in Mormon History

Rather than a preamble about what I liked, I want to hear from you: what did you like best? What did I miss?

Global Mormonism

Marie Vinnarasi Chintaram, “Mauritians and Latter-day Saints: Multicultural Oral Histories of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints within the ‘Rainbow Nation,'” Religions 12 no. 8 (2021).

Christopher Cannon Jones, “A verry poor place for our doctrine’: Religion and Race in the 1853 Mormon Mission to Jamaica,” Religion and American Culture 31, no. 2 (2021): 262-295.

Ryan A. Davis, “The Spirituality of Sport: Los Mormones in Argentina, 1938–1943,” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 4 (2021): 22–51.

“Globalizing Mormonism.” Edited by Matthew Bowman, Caroline Kline, and Amy Hoyt Religions 12 no. 8 (2021).

Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, “Global Mormonism in Political Context,” Mormon Studies Review 9 (2021): 23-35.

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Call for Applicants: National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute: “Mormonism and Mexico”

Applications are now open for the NEH Summer Institute Mormonism and Mexico: A Case Study in Religion and Borderlands

Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA invites scholars and educators to examine the history of Mormonism and Mexico as a case study to explore the impact of borders and migration on religious change in the modern world.

Dates: June 27-28, 2022 (virtual), July 1-8, 2022 (residential), July 18-22, 2022 (virtual)
Apply: https://mormonstudies.cgu.edu/events/neh-summer-institutes-program/
Application Deadline: March 1, 2022
Stipend: $2,850

This institute will encourage its participants to think about the intertwined history of Mexico and the various churches that make up the Mormon tradition as a means to explore deeper questions about borders and religion.We will explore how political and cultural borders between the United States and Mexico have transformed Mormonism, and in turn how Mormonism has provided residents of both nations a way to transcend those borders through its reinvention.

In so doing, the institute will be of interest to scholars in a number of disciplines: historians, students of religious studies and Latinx students, scholars of the American West, cultural pluralism, and migration. The institute focuses on a religious tradition that has been absent from most borderlands and Latinx religious studies, but whose presence in Mexico and the American West is notable. Just so, it will encourage scholars of religion in the United States and of Mormonism in particular to consider issues of globalization and borderlands.

The institute, intended for 25 college and university teachers, will be held June 27-28, July 1-8, and July 18-22, 2022. Approximately half of the institute will be held at Claremont Graduate University and half remotely via Zoom. While in person, attendees will take advantage of the resources of Claremont’s Honnold Library, including the Gomez Collection on Mexican Mormon History, visit a Mormon Spanish-language service and the Cheech Marin Center For Chicano Art, Culture and History, and visit with a number of visiting scholars and speakers.

Each participant will be expected to develop a project, either research, pedagogical, or having to do with public history.

The institute will be directed by Matthew Bowman, Daniel Ramirez, and Caroline Kline.