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Acknowlegments
Prologue
1. Gentiles, Mormons, and the History of the American West
PART 1: STUDIES IN PERCEPTION
2. From Satyr to Saint" American Perceptions pf the Mormons, 1860-1960
3. Surveying the Mormon Image since 1960
4. From Gentile to Non-Mormon: Mormon Perceptions of the Other
5. Media Coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention in Salt Lake City
PART 2: HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND WRITING ABOUT RELIGIOUS HISTORY
6. History, Her-story, and Their Story
7. A Capsule Bibliography of Mormonism
8. Remembering, Recovering, and Inventing What Being a People of God Means: Reflections on Method in the Scholarly Writing of Religious History
9. Dangerous History: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Her Mormon Sisters
10. Thoughts about the Academic Community's Response to John Brooke's Refiner's Fire
PART 3: PUTTING RELIGION AT THE HEART OF MORMON HISTORY AND HISTORY AT THE HEART OF MORMONISM
11. The Reality of the Restoration in LDS Theology and Mormon Experience
12. Brigham Young and His Times: A Continuing Force in Mormonism
13. The Scattering of the Gathering and the Gathering of the Scattered: The Mid-Twentieth-Century Mormon Diaspora
PART 4: DECIPHERING, EXPLICATING, CLARIFYING: EXERCISING AN INSIDE-OUTSIDER'S INFORMAL CALLING
14. Joseph Smith and the Creation of LDS Theology
15. Difference and Otherness: Mormonism and the American Religious Mainstream
PART 5: HOW MY MIND WAS CHANGED AND MY UNDERSTANDING AMPLIFIED
16. Is Mormonism Christian?: Reflections on a Complicated Question
17. Knowledge and Understanding
Epilogue: Passages
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