Mormonism in the Public Mind
The UVU Religious Studies Program presents the
Ninth Annual Mormon Studies Conference
April 2009

"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

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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

For more information contact:
Brian Birch at brian.birch@uvu.edu, (801) 863-8759 or
Boyd Petersen at boyd.petersen@uvu.edu, (801) 863-6181