mormon studies review

The Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University is pleased to announce the inauguration of a new annual periodical that will address the needs of a growing community of scholars who contribute to the interdisciplinary field of Mormon studies. The Mormon Studies Review will publish reviews of important books and other publications relevant to the academic study of Mormonism, along with review essays that will chronicle the field and assess its development.M. Gerald Bradford, executive director of the Maxwell Institute, has appointed J. Spencer Fluhman, Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University, as the first editor of the new Review.

Volume 1 is available at Amazon for $9.99We want to make the Mormon Studies Review more accessible and affordable. That's why we're introducing a digital-only subscription option at the bargain price of $9.99 just in time for volume 2. (You can grab a digital edition of volume 1 right now on Amazon.)What about paper? Don't worry; you'll still be able to subscribe to receive a good old printed version (long live Gutenberg!) at the newly-reduced rate of $20 per year. Print subscriptions will also include digital access.Volume 2 is loaded with great content including a series of essays by professors about what it's like to teach about Mormonism on the University level, a review essay looking at ongoing Mormon-Evangelical dialogues, and reviews of some of the most important Mormon studies books of the past few years. The Mormon Studies Review is the premiere journal for...well, Mormon studies.So subscribe today!

Studies of American folklore have been going on for more than a century now and few groups have received more attention than Mormons. What are folklore studies? Why has the field focused so often on Mormonism? What can folklore studies contribute to our understanding of Mormons? What does the future hold for such studies? The editors of an impressive new anthology of 'Mormon Folklore Studies' have addressed these questions by compiling landmark articles from the 1940s to the present. Thus, Eric A. Eliason and Tom Mould's landmark Latter-day Lore is both culmination and catalyst.

Here's an excerpt from Spencer Fluhman's editor's introduction to volume 1 of the Mormon Studies Review: As an object of study, religion has been reborn in American universities. When my own discipline of history recently announced religion as the largest subspecialty for historians working in the United States, it con�rmed what many of us had experienced anecdotally: religion continues to thrive in modern American life, and scholars are growing increasingly attuned to its signi�cance in the past and present. This phenomenon has had profound implications for the study of Mormonism. As scholars have grown more and more sophisticated in their study of religion, and as it has assumed a more prominent place in many disciplines, academic interest in Mormonism has �owered correspondingly. And when the public spotlight �nds its way to prominent Mormons or to the growth and institutional in�uence of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, scholars and pundits alike crave understanding of the faith.