Comments on: Notes from the UVU Mormon Studies Conference, Day 1, part 1

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:51:54 +0000

Prof. Anderson’s wife was Carma deJong–you heard and spelled it right, so you can delete the [?] from that part of your notes.

Thanks for these notes. I look forward to future installments. I’m anxious to see Mauss’s take on the data.

I think there’s a lot more to the picture than Wesley Johnson has painted (in this presentation or in his article in BYU Studies a few years back). The church in the one eastern city I’m most familiar with consists largely of a mix of outmigrants from the Mormon corridor and inmigrants from abroad, converted either before immigrating or after arrival. The numbers of “natives” who convert, or children of migrants who remain, are a very small percentage of the whole.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:50:46 +0000

Thanks for this Jared.

By: David G.

David G. — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:12:06 +0000

Thanks, J.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:36:36 +0000

As a member of the outmigration, I find myself 2000 miles away from discussions like this, so I do appreciate your notes from the conference.

I have a little too much to say on the topic to narrow it down to a short comment, so I’ll just thank you again for the notes, and will look forward to reading the rest.

By: Hunter

Hunter — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:45:08 +0000

Hurrah once again, Jared. This is good stuff. Thanks for making it available.

By: Kent (MC)

Kent (MC) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:41:25 +0000

Thank you for doing this! I was dying to get to the conference this year but was tied up.