The Success of “Succession Crisis”?
Post-1844 Mormonism has been on my mind lately since beginning a documentary history project with fellow-blogger Ben Park on the “Succession Crisis.” The documentary record is rich with history that...
View ArticleThe Succession Crisis in Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
[Another installment in the roundtable on John Turner’s Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet.] If the first few chapters of Turner’s excellent biography narrate the foundations of Brigham Young’s Mormon...
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Book Review: John S. Dinger, The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes
Dinger, John S. ed. The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011. lxxxi + 616 pp. Appendixes, index. Hardback with dust jacket: $49.95; ISBN 978-1-56085-214-8. In his...
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Responses: The Blythes Take on Succession
First of all, we hope you enjoy JI’s new look. And yes, we are aware that the “music notes” can easily catch your attention. If the recent resurgence in Mormon schism studies did nothing more than give...
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Scholarly Q&A on the Succession: Christine and Christopher Blythe
(The following is a give-and-take with Christopher and Christine Blythe, graduate students in American religious history who specialize in the many divergent forms of Mormonism. Christopher attends...
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Journal Overview: BYU Studies Quarterly 53:2 (2014)
Just a quick note to turn your attention to two fine documentary articles published in the latest issue of BYU Studies Quarterly: Continuing his work on Mormonism in Asia in this issue, Reid Neilson...
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Succession in the LDS Presidency: Past and Present
President Thomas S. Monson, sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, passed away last night surrounded by family in his Salt Lake City home from effects related to aging....
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