The UVU Religious Studies Program presents the
Ninth Annual Mormon Studies Conference
Mormonism in the Public Mind
Perceptions of an Emerging World Faith
April 2, 2009 - Lakeview Room, UVU Library 4th Floor
April 3, 2009 - Ragan Theater, UVU Student Center
Mormonism in the Public Mind
Perceptions of an Emerging World Faith
April 2, 2009 - Lakeview Room, UVU Library 4th Floor
April 3, 2009 - Ragan Theater, UVU Student Center
click here for a complete schedule
Keynote Address
Far From Zion: Meeting Mormonism on the Religion Beat
Michael Paulson
Pulitzer Prize winning religion reporter for the Boston Globe
Other Participants Include
Richard Bushman
Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University and
author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling and Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
Jana Riess
author of Mormonism for Dummies and American Pilgrimage and former Religion Book
Review Editor for Publisher's Weekly
Terryl Givens
Bostwick Professor of English at the University of Richmond and author of Viper on the Hearth: Mormons,
Myths, and the Construction of Heresy and The Latter-day Saint Experience in America
Claudia Bushman
author of Contemporary Mormonism: Latter-day Saints in Modern America, and
Building the Kingdom: A History of Mormons in America
...and many more
Brian Birch at brian.birch@uvu.edu (801) 863-8759 or
Boyd Petersen at boyd.petersen@uvu.edu, (801) 863-6181