Revisiting Thomas F. O'Dea's The Mormons : contemporary perspectives / edited by Cardell K. Jacobson, John P. Hoffmann, and Tim B. Heaton.
"Fifty years ago, Thomas F. O'Dea, a Catholic sociologist who taught at the University of Utah from 1959 to 1964, published a landmark study titled simply The Mormons. It remains one of the most widely cited social science treatments of Mormon society and culture.Now, after five decades of...
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Table of Contents:
- Thomas F. O'Dea: the new spirit and science of Mormon studies / Lynn England
- Thomas F. O'Dea and Mormon intellectual life: a reassessment fifty years later / O. Kendall White Jr.
- Mastery and mystery / Douglas J. Davies
- "Common sense" meets the book of Mormon: source, substance, and prophetic disruption / Terryl L. Givens
- LDS family ideals versus the equality of women: navigating the changes since 1957 / Carrie A. Miles
- Mormon women's issues in the twenty-first century / Janet Bennion
- The peril and promise of social prognosis: O'Dea and the race issue / Armand L. Mauss
- The current crisis in the formation and regulation of Latter-Day Saint's sexual identity / Melvyn Hammarberg
- Mormons and the state / Michael Nielsen and Barry Balleck
- Preserving peculiarity as a people: Mormon distinctness in lived values and internal structure / Loren Marks and Brent D. Beal
- From near-nation to New World religion? / Armand L. Mauss
- Growth, retention, and internationalization / David G. Stewart Jr.
- The Mormons of the world: the meaning of LDS membership in Central America / Henri Gooren
- Go ye to all the world: the LDS church and the organization of international society / David Clark Knowlton
- "That same sociality": Mormons and globalization in the twenty-first century / Sarah Busse Spencer.