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		<title>Mormon History Association Awards Nominations: Deadline Feb. 15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Mormon History Association: The Mormon History Association will give its yearly awards for the best books, articles, dissertation, thesis, and student papers published or writte on Mormon history during 2011 at its annual 2012 conference, which will be held in June in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The submission deadline is February 15, 2012. Books [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Mormonism at Georgetown-Course Overview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is basically an overview of the course itself. In general, there will be four units, each corresponding to a particular textbook that we will read. But before we get into the units themselves, I will have my students read Mormonism: A Very Short Introduction, by Richard Bushman. Oxford puts out these “very short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oz Behind the Curtain, Part 4: The Syllabus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the premise of this post: a syllabus should be more than a boring, text-laden legal contract. If you let it, it can also be 1) a thing of beauty, and 2) a tool to think with about your teaching and your students&#8217; learning. At this point I hope you can see why this post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormons and Politics at Columbia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the fifteenth floor in a Columbia University building overlooking a majestic New York City skyline, some of the most well known scholars of Mormonism (&#8211;and me&#8211;) gathered to present papers on the role of Mormonism and American politics during this so-called “Mormon Moment.” Professors and students from Columbia and other NYC-area universities, a handful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foxes and Hedgehogs in Mormon Historiography</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Isaiah Berlin, one of the most influential historians of the twentieth century, once wrote that there were two types of historians: the hedgehog and the fox. Taking the phrase from a throw-away statement of Greek poet Archilochus&#8212;&#8221;the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing&#8221;&#8212;Berlin creatively expanded the sentiment to explore two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conference on How We Think About the Great Apostasy, Coming in March</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please join us for a conference titled “Exploring Mormon Conceptions of Apostasy” to be held on March 1-2, 2012 at Brigham Young University. The conference schedule is available at https://sites.google.com/site/mormonconceptionsofapostasy/. The notion of an apostasy from the primitive gospel and the original church has been a key animating feature in Mormonism since its inception and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Mormonism a &#8220;western&#8221; religion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Religion in the American West blog, Laurie Maffly-Kipp has offered her thoughts to the above question. The whole post is worth reading&#8212;and it&#8217;d be great to generate some discussion on the topic over there&#8212;but I wanted to highlight a couple of points I found especially important. Mormonism, like Methodism and Catholicism, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teaching Mormonism at Georgetown-Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings, Juvenile Instructor readers! Matt B (one of your permabloggers) asked if I would be willing to do a bit of a guest stint as a blogger. I’m currently in a PhD program in systematic theology at the Catholic University of America, and teach as an instructor at Georgetown. Because I’m LDS, I’ve been asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mormonism and &#8220;Historical/Traditional&#8221; Christianity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dissertation committee felt I sort of gave them a bait and switch at my prospectus defense.  I had spent three years telling them I wanted to compare Mormonism to medieval Christianity (which I&#8217;m still doing) but for my prospectus I was now talking about Mormonism and Neoplatonism.  They found this all rather confusing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Allison P. Coudert,  Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coudert, Allison P.  Religion, Magic , and Science in Early Modern Europe and America.  Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2011. This book made my head spin.  Coudert sets about attacking cherished ontologies and historiographical dogmas in ways I&#8217;m overwhelmingly in agreement with, but the book still left me dizzy.  Coudert comes out swinging and doesn&#8217;t let up.   [...]]]></description>
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