The Mormon History Association’s Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years
The Mormon History Association’s Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years
edited by Dean L. May and Reid L. Neilson contributions by John F. C. Harrison, Glenda Riley, Martin Ridge, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Anne Firor Scott, Peter Lineham, Howrad R Lamar, John G Gager, Rodney Stark, Langdom Gilkey, Laurie F Maffly-Kipp, Henry Warner Bowden, Martin Marty, Edwin Gaustad, Gordon S Wood, Richard T. Hughes, Timothy J. Smith, Nathan O Hatch, John F Wilson, R Laurence Moore and D. W. Meinig
University of Illinois Press, 2000 Cloth: 978-0-252-03052-9 | Paper: 978-0-252-07288-8 Library of Congress Classification BX8611.M665 2006 Dewey Decimal Classification 289.309
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Tanner lectures, now firmly entrenched as an institution at the annual Mormon History Association meetings, were established in 1980 as a means of providing scholars of Mormonism with a valuable new perspective for their historical record. All twenty-one lectures are presented by well-known non-Mormon scholars that were invited to prepare presentations in their own specialties that also encompass some aspect of Mormon history. In the course of preparing their talks, the presenters are expected to immerse themselves for a year in current historical writings on Mormons and Mormonism. As this collection amply demonstrates, when these scholars do their homework, the results are enlightening. This volume includes the Tanner lectures for the last two decades of the twentieth century, a general introduction, and specialized introductions to each individual lecture.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Dean L. May (1938-2003) was a professor of history at the University of Utah. He is the author of Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850_1900 and other books. Reid L. Neilson is a Ph.D. candidate in religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the editor of The Rise of Mormonism and other books.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction
Part I. BeginningsRichard Lyman Bushman
1. Evangelical America and Early MormonismGordon S. Wood
2. Two Restoration Traditions: Mormons and Churches of Christ in
the Nineteenth CenturyRichard T. Hughes
3. The Book of Mormon in a Biblical CultureTimothy L. Smith
4. Mormon and Methodist: Popular Religion in the Crucible of the
Free MarketNathan O. Hatch
5. Some Comparative Perspectives on the Early Mormon Movement and
the Church-State Question, 1830-45John F. Wilson
6. Learning to Play: The Mormon Way and the Way of Other
AmericansR. Laurence Moore
Part II. Establishing ZionThomas G. Alexander
7. The Mormon Nation and the American EmpireD. W. Meinig
8. The Popular History of Early Victorian Britain: A Mormon
ContributionJohn F. C. Harrison
9. Sesquicentennial Reflections: A Comparative View of Mormon and
Gentile Women on the Westward TrailGlenda Riley
10. Mormon "Deliverance" and the Closing of the
FrontierMartin Ridge
11. Peace Initiative: Using the Mormons to Rethink Culture and
Ethnicity in American HistoryPatricia Nelson Limerick
12. Mormon Women, Other Women: Paradoxes and ChallengesAnne
Firor Scott
13. The Mormon Message in the Context of Maori CulturePeter
Lineham
14. National Perceptions of Utah's StatehoodHoward R. Lamar
Part III. Mormonism Considered from Different PerspectivesJan
Shipps
15. Early Mormonism and Early Christianity: Some Parallels and
Their Consequences for the Study of New ReligionsJohn G.
Gager
16. Extracting Social Scientific Models from Mormon
HistoryRodney Stark
17. Religion and Culture: A Persistent ProblemLangdon Gilkey
18. Looking West: Mormonism and the Pacific WorldLaurie F.
Maffly-Kipp
19. From the Age of Science to an Age of Uncertainty: History and
Mormon Studies in the Twentieth CenturyHenry Warner Bowden
20. Two Integrities: An Address to the Crisis in Mormon
HistoriographyMartin Marty
21. Historical Theology and Theological History: Mormon
PossibilitiesEdwin Gaustad
Contributors
Index
