Utah Valley University
Mormon Studies
Mormon Studies at Utah Valley University is an interdisciplinary program designed to support academic engagement with a rich, dynamic, and increasingly influential religious tradition. Courses, conferences, lectures, and other events seek to cultivate an atmosphere of inclusiveness and productive dialogue on a range of issues. Our aim is to create opportunities for deeper understanding and cultural literacy in one of the natural educational resources of our region.
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Upcoming Events
Thirteenth Annual Mormon Studies Conference
The Expanded Canon
Perspectives on Mormonism and Sacred Texts
April 4-5, 2013
Utah Valley University
This conference will explore the wealth of new scholarship on the sacred texts of Mormonism. The growth of Mormon Studies has initiated a variety of publications that explore the LDS canon in historical and comparative contexts. Examples include Grant Hardy, Understanding the Book of Mormon (Oxford University Press, 2010), David Holland, Sacred Borders: Continuing Revelation and Canonical Restraint in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2011), Terryl Givens, By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture than Launched a New American Religion (Oxford University Press, 2003), Royal Skousen, The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text (Yale University Press, 2009)
Keynote Presentations:
"Past, Present, and Personal:
The Councillary Character of Mormon Scripture"
David Holland
Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada Las Vegas
"Different Print Cultures Spawning Different Books of Mormon"
Paul Gutjahr
Professor of English, Indiana University
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Courses
Anthropology of Mormonism
Department of Behavioral Science
Mormon Cultural Studies
Department of Communication
Mormon Literature
Department of English and Literature
Mormon Theology and the Christian Tradition
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Annual Events
Mormon Studies Conference
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Eugene England Lecture Series
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Spring, 2013 Events
New York Times Lecture and Panel
Perspectives on the Mormon Moment
Matthew
S. Holland, Utah Valley University
Peggy Fletcher-Stack, Salt Lake Tribune
Kristine Haglund, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought
Russell Arben Fox, Friends University
Brian D. Birch, Utah Valley University (
moderator)
Spring, 2012 Events
Twelfth Annual Mormon Studies Conference
"Mormons and the Internet"
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2012 Eugene England Memorial Lecture
"'Blessed Are All the Peacemakers': Toward a Mormon Theology and Ethic of Peace"
Patrick Mason
Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies
Claremont Graduate University
Spring, 2011 Events
Eleventh Annual Mormon Studies Conference
"Mormonism and Islam"
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March 10-11, 2011
Tenth Annual Eugene England Lecture
"To Mend a Fractured Reality: Joseph Smith's Project"
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Philip L. Barlow
Leonard Arrington Chair of Mormon History and Culture
Utah State University
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Spring 2010 Events
Ninth Annual Eugene England Lecture
"The Story Lives Here: Faith, History, and Instructional Mormon Media"
Colleen McDannell
Sterling M. McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies
University of Utah
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
Annual Meeting of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology
March 25 -27, 2010
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Panel Discussion: Helen Whitney's "The Mormons" - Perspectives and Analysis on Religion and Film
February 11, 2010
Helen Whitney, director, The Mormons
Charles Randall Paul, President, Foundation for Religious Diplomacy
David Scott, Associate Professor of Communication, Utah Valley University
Tenth Annual Mormon Studies Conference
"Outmigration and the Mormon Quest for Education"
November 5-6, 2009
"Perspectives on a Massacre: A Panel Discussion of Mountain Meadows"
March 5, 2009
Forrest Cuch, Executive Director, Utah Division of Indian Affairs
Richard Turley, Assistant Church Historian, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and author of Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Alex Caldiero, Poet in Residence, Utah Valley University
Ninth Annual Mormon Studies Conference
"Mormonism in the Public Mind"
April 2-3, 2009
Eighth Annual Eugene England Lecture
"The Prehistory of the Soul"
Terryl L. Givens
Bostwick Professor of English and Religious Studies
University of Richmond
April 2, 2009