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American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ Simpson decenters polygamy no mean feat and places intellectual history and education at the heart of LDS navigation of both modernity and national identityJ Spencer Fluhman Brigham Young University American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism tells an important story of the development of Mormon intellectual life

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism 1867–1940 Book Description In the closing decades of the nineteenth century collegeage Latterday Saints began undertaking a remarkable intellectual pilgrimage to the nations elite universities including Harvard Columbia Michigan Chicago and Stanford

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism 1867–1940 Reviewer Heather M Seferovich Virtually all Mormon historians are familiar with Thomas G Alexanders seminal work Mormonism in Transition Urbana University of Illinois Press 1986

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ In American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism by contrast Thomas W Simpson argues “that modern Mormonism was born in the American university and the Mormon path to citizenship—to a genuine passionate sense of belonging in America—ran directly through it” pp 1–2

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ Simpsons book covers the years 1867 to 1940 as Mormonism was transitioning from an isolated I added American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism after listening to an interview with the author Thomas Simpson at the Maxwell Institute Podcast

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ On campus Simpson argues Mormon separatism died and a new modern Mormonism was born a Mormonism at home in the United States but at odds with itself Fierce battles among Mormon scholars and church leaders ensued over scientific thought progressivism and the historicity of Mormonism’s sacred past

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism examines Mormonism’s growing pains in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the hierarchy debated recent developments in the sciences and the humanities We learn about progressive efforts to educate Mormon women as midwives and doctors but we also become familiar with the leadership’s tendency to eschew the latest scientific discoveries as evident by evolution debates at Brigham Young University

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ Mormon Separatism in American Universities 29 had to unfold It started in the late 1870s when hostile Gentile reformers frustrated by the aborted federal Reconstruction in the South but reemboldened by the death of Brigham Young took the war on barbarism to a new theater Mormon Utah1 At the same time Mormon students re

American Universities and the Birth of Modern Mormonism ~ Introduction 1 The debatable claim that Mormons as late as 1893 ­ were “the most despised large group” in Amer­ i­ ca is Martin Marty’s Marty Modern American Religion Vol­ ume 1 301 Some notable scholarship on the historical evolution of Mormonism includes Hansen Mormonism and the American Experience Shipps Mormon­ ism Alexander