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.

Mormonism and Race

W. Paul Reeve, “‘I Dug the Graves’: Isaac Lewis Manning, Joseph Smith, and Racial Connections in Two Latter Day Saint Traditions,” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 1 (2021): 29–67. 

Indigenous Histories

“Indigeneity and Mormonism,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 54, no. 2.

LGBTQIA+ History

Alexandria Griffin, “Queer Mormon Histories and the Politics of a Usable Past,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 54, no. 1. (Spring 2021): 1-16.

K. Mohrman, “Same-Sex Marriage?! What Next, Polygamy?’: Mormonism in US Political Culture,” Mormon Studies Review 9 (2021): 57-67.

Mormonism, Politics, and Place

Martha Bradley Evans, “Construction Zion: Faith, Grit, and the Realm of Possibilities,” Utah Historical Quarterly 89 no. 1 (April 2021): 63-78.

Ignacio M. García, “Eduardo Balderas, His Family and Their Place and Time as Refugees and Converts: Another Way of Writing Mormon History,” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 1 (2021): 1–28.

Spencer W. McBride, Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

“Modern Mormonism and Politics.” Roundtable in Mormon Studies Review 9 (2021): 23-78.

Benjamin E. Park, “The Danite Constitution and Theories of Democratic Justice in Frontier America,” BYU Studies Quarterly 60 no. 1 (2021): 43-64. 

Jana Riess and Benjamin Knoll, “Does Being Liberal Push Some Members Out of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” Mormon Studies Review 9 (2021): 66-78.

Brent M. Rogers, “Mormons and Territorial Politics in the American Civil War Era,” in Benjamin E. Park, ed., A Companion to American Religious History (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 191-205.

Latter-day Saint Scripture History

Matthew Bowman, “Biblical Criticism, the Book of Mormon, and the Meanings of Civilization,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 30 (2021): 62–89.

Amy Easton-Flake, “Knowing the Book Better: Orson Pratt, George Reynolds, and Janne M. Sjödahl on the Book of Mormon,” Journal of Book of Mormon Studies 30 (2021): 41–61. 

John G. Turner, “Sincerity, Imagination, and Mythmaking: Fawn Brodie and the First Vision,” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 4 (2021): 95–109. 

Art and Cultural History

Amanda Beardsley, “The Female Absorption Coefficient: The Miniskirt Study, Gender, and Latter-day Saint Architectural Acoustics,” Technology and Culture 62 no. 3 (July 2021): 659-684.

Jennifer Champoux, “In their Promised Canaan Stand’: Outlawry, Landscape, and Memory in C.C.A. Christensen’s Mormon Panorama,” BYU Studies Quarterly 60, no. 2 (2021): 5-48.  

Early Mormonism

Alexander L. Baugh, Stephen C. Harper, Brent M. Rogers, and Ben Pykles, eds., Joseph Smith and His First Vision: Context, Place, and Meaning (Provo: BYU Religious Studies Center and Deseret Book, 2021).

Michael Hubbard MacKay, “Event or Process: How ‘the Chamber of Old Father Whitmer’ Helps Us Understand Priesthood Restoration,” BYU Studies Quarterly 60, no. 1 (2021): 73-101.

Mark L. Staker and Donald L. Enders, Joseph and Lucy Smith’s Tunbridge Farm: An Archeology and Landscape Study (Independence, MO: John Whitmer Books, 2021).

Theology and Intellectual History

“Yet to be Revealed: Open Questions in Latter-day Saint Theology.” Edited by Eric A. Eliason and Terryl L. Givens.

Brooke R. LeFevre, “‘I Would Not Risk My Salvation to Any Man’: Eliza R. Snow’s Challenge to Salvific Coverture,” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 2 (2021): 48–74. 

Patrick Q. Mason and J. David Pulsipher, Proclaim Peace: The Restoration’s Answer to an Age of Conflict (Provo: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2021).

Cristina Rosetti, “‘Hysteria Excommunicatus’: Loyalty Oaths, Excommunication, and the Forging of a Mormon Identity,” Journal of Mormon History 47, no. 3 (2021): 22–43.

Jonathan A. Stapley, “Brigham Young’s Garden Cosmology,” Journal of Mormon History, vol. 47, no. 1 (2021): 68–86.

Documentary Histories

David W. Grua, Brent M. Rogers, Matthew C. Godfrey, Robin Scott Jensen, Christopher James Blythe, and Jessica M. Nelson, Documents, Volume 12: March–July 1843 (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2021).

George D. Smith, ed., Brigham Young, Colonizer of the American West: Diaries and Office Journals, 1832-1871 (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021).

Dan Vogel, Book of Abraham Apologetics: A Review and Critique (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2021).

Biography

Michael Austin, Vardis Fisher: A Mormon Novelist (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021).

Terryl Givens, Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021).

Casey P. Griffiths, Truth Seeker: The Life of Joseph F. Merrill, Scientist, Educator, and Apostle (Provo: BYU Religious Studies Center, 2021).

Kristine Haglund, Eugene England: A Mormon Liberal (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021).

Virginia Kerns, Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2021).