This year’s meetings of the Communal Studies Association will be held in Salt Lake City, UT from October 5-8, 2016. Several of the papers address Mormon topics (you can see the full program here). Hope to see many of you there!

Friday, October 5

OPENING PLENARY SESSION: “Apocalyptic Anticipations: Mormon Millenarianism in the Early Years,” Grant Underwood

MORMONS, ICARIANS, & THE SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF COMMUNAL LIVING

LaJean Carruth, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, UT:
The Necessity of Faith: Mormon Apostle John Taylor on the Success and Failure of Communal Living

Diana Garno, Independent Scholar:
Utopian Intersections: Communal Icarians Replace Nauvoo Mormons

Erik Freeman, University of Connecticut:
The Most Appalling Social Chaos of Modern Time: Preaching the Mormon Apocalypse among French Romantic Socialists

BOUNDARIES AND MILLENNIALISM IN SEPARATIST COMMUNITIES

Tim Hoxha:
Mormon Millennialism: An Evolving Vision for a Christian Society

MILLENNIALIST COMMUNITIES & AMERICAN INDIANS

Douglas Major, Independent Scholar:
Mormon Millennialism among the Ute Tribe at Manti, Utah: Isaac Morley’s Culminating Attempt at Creating a Communal Zion

Carol Medlicott, Northern Kentucky University:
Considering the 1805 Origins of the Shaker-Shawnee Relationship

David Grua, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah:
The 1838 Cherokee Council and the Mormon War in Missouri

COMMUNALISM & PROTESTANT MILLENNIALISM

Bradley Kime, University of Virginia:
Mormon Communalism and Millennialism

MORMON SACRED SPACE

Jacob Olmstead, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Delaying the Second Coming: Saints, Sin, and the Salt Lake Temple Dedication

Christopher Blythe, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah:
Mormon Fundamentalism and Apocalyptic Stories of the Salt Lake Temple

Martha Bradley-Evans, University of Utah:
Of Earth and Heaven: The Ecclesiastical Architecture of the Latter-day Saints

CHILDREN & FAMILIES IN RECENT COMMUNAL GROUPS

Stephanie Griswold, San Diego State University:
FLDS Families Facing the Fauxpocalypse: How Continued Threat of the End Times Formed Family Constructs

RHETORIC, THEOLOGY, & REALITY IN MORMON MILLENNIALISM

Cameron Nielsen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Day of Deliverance: The Anti-polygamy Campaign and the Rhetoric of Resistance, 1874-1891

James Williamson, Keele University:
Let the Lord have a sixpence: The Conflict between Spiritual and Temporal Concerns within Late-Nineteenth Century Mormon Utah

Michael Marquardt, Independent Scholar:
The End Times According to Latter-day Saint Joseph Smith Senior

UTOPIAN SELF-SUFFICINECY AMONG THE MORMONS

Glen Leonard, Independent Scholar:
Seeking a Mormon Utopia in Farmington, Utah, 1849-1880

Tamora Hoskisson, Salt Lake Community College:
“This System Was the Private Ownership of Property”: The United Order through a Cold-War Lens

Kiersten Olson, University of Utah:
Preparing for a New Apocalypse: The Evolution of Mormon Food Storage During the Cold War

FORMING COMMUNITY THROUGH SCRIPTURAL INTERPRETATION

Jeremy Talmage, University of Utah:
The New Jerusalem in the New World: A Mormon Interpretation of Revelation 21

ZION IN THE MORMON TRADITION

Steven Olsen, Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah: The Design of Zion: Persistence of a Mormon Utopian Ideal

Andrew Bolton, Community of Christ: Zion in Community of Christ: Economic Justice, Violence, and Signal Communities

Timothy Miller, University of Kansas:
Latter Day Saint Communitarianism: Some Lesser-Known LDS Communal Groups

TRANSNATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES

Jacob Hickman, Brigham Young University:
Making a Millennium through Language Practice: Hmong Efforts to Forge a Transnational Intentional Community

Warner Woodworth, Brigham Young University:
African Communalism Today: Social Impacts for Good
Deborah Altus, Washburn University:

ESCHATOLOGY & THE GATHERED BODY

Jeffrey Mahas, University of Utah:
Mormon Eschatology and the Development of a Mormon-Indian Racial Identity in the Council of Fifty

Jeffey Turner, University of Utah:
Crossing and Dwelling: Migrants, Bodies, and Community Formation

Joseph Stuart, University of Utah:
Apocalypse in Black: Blackness and the Nation of Islam’s Racial Eschatology

INTERACTIONS & COMPARISONS BETWEEN MILLENNIAL COMMUNITIES

Bryan Monte, Amsterdam Quarterly:
The Light Went Out, Gather Together, The End is Near/Here: Exchanges between Ohio’s Quakers, Shakers and Mormons during the LDS Church’s First, Formative Decade