Mormonism
Numerical Growth of the Mormon Church
Every April I get excited when at conference they announce the statistics for the previous year. Maybe it’s self-serving in a way to learn how the church has grown, and that it continues to grow. I have wondered what would happen if one year they reported a decline in membership. I imagine Latter-day Saints would [...]
Potential Avenues in Mormon Mission History
Yesterday a friend of mine expressed frustration (maybe not total frustration, but perhaps an inner ambiguity) over exactly how to determine a dissertation topic or a life-long track of study. He knows that he definitely wants to work on 19th century American religious history, particularly Mormon history. But from there… what? I imagine part of [...]
Restoration Inclusivism as Missiology
Reid L. Neilson recently published a paper in his edited volume Joseph Smith Jr.: Reappraisals after Two Centuries entitled Joseph Smith and Nineteenth-Century Mormon Mappings of Asian Religions. Neilson weighs the question of how Latter-day Saints have made sense of Asian religions and proffers a new “theoretical plank” for contextualizing Mormons’ self-identity relative to (especially) [...]
“Unto Every Nation” and Mormon Missions
David Whittaker provided probably the best work for Mormon missiology in recent years in his introduction to the sources. He wrote this in 2000, and up to that point “no one-volume study of the Mormon missionary experience” had been written. A couple of years later, Donald Cannon, et al., published “Unto Every Nation: Gospel Light [...]
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