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1 Scott McLemee, "Latter-day Studies," Chronicle of Higher Education, March 22, 2002, A-14.
2 Eric A. Eliason, ed., Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001);
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3 Todd Hollingshead, "Yale Hosting Mormon Conference," BYU NewsNet, March 4, 2003, retrieved on December 23, 2004, from http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/42757.
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5 Arturo de Hoyos, "Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Rite," Review of Equal Rites, by Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., The Scottish Rite Journal, n.d., retrieved on December 23, 2004, from http://www.srmason-sj.org/web/journal-files/Issues/br-new.htm;
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6 Michael Drosnin, The Bible Code (New York: Touchstone, 1997);
Margaret Starbird, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail (Santa Fe, N.M.: Bear <Sc Co., 1993).
7 John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
8 John-Charles Duffy, "Defending the Kingdom, Rethinking the Faith: How Apologetics Is Reshaping Mormon Orthodoxy," Sunstone, No. 132 (May 2004): 33.
9 Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980), 327.
10 Jane Tompkins, "’Indians’: Textualism, Morality, and the Problem of History," Critical Inquiry 13 (1986-87): 116.
11 Michael W. Homer, ’"Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry’: The Relationship between Freemasonry and Mormonism," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27, no. 3 (Fall 1994): 26-42.
12 Homer, "Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry," 90.
Dan Vogel, "Mormonismi ’AntiMasonick Bible,"’ John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 9 (1989): 17-30.
Richard Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984), 128-31;
Daniel C. Peterson, "Notes on ’Gadianton Masonry,"’ in Warfare in the Book of Mormon, edited by Stephen D. Ricks and William J. Hamblin (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book/Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1990), 146-224.
13 Mark C. Carnes, Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1989), 24-25;
Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., Equal Rites: The Book of Mormon, Masonry, Gender, and American Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), 17-21;
Homer, "Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry," 12-14.
14 Forsberg, Equal Rites, xxii, xvii;
15 Ibid., 91.
16 Ibid., 115.
17 Ibid., 86-88.
18 Ibid., 46-47.
19 Homer, "Similarity of Priesthood in Masonry," 17-18, 89-90;
Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire, 157-59.
20 Jan Shipps, M ormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), 58
21 Forsberg, Equal Rites, 44.
22 John M. Allegro, The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970);
Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (New York: Doubleday, 2003).
23 Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum, translated by William Weaver (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990), 314.
24 Ibid., 513.
25 Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum, 383.
Michel Lamy, Jules Verne, initié et initiateur: Le clé du secret de Rennes-le-Château et le trésor des rois de France (Paris: Payot, 1984), 237-38.
26 Forsberg, Equal Rites, 34-35.
27 Ibid., 41.
28 Ibid., 50, 74, 120.
29 Ibid., 67, 94.
30 Ibid., 70.
31 Ibid., 58, 62.
32 Ibid., 76.
33 Ibid., 114.
34 Ibid., 78;
35 Ibid., 224.
36 Ibid., xix.
37 Ibid, 214.
Equal Rites, 218.
Klaus Hansen, in M ormonism and the American Experience (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
Hansen, Mormonism and the American Experience, 182.
that notion is Forsberg’s alone.
38 Clyde R. Forsberg Jr., All the King’s Horses and All the King’s Men: Love, Alienation and "Reconciliation" in a Big, BIG Mormon Family (N.p.: Xlibris, 2000), 91-92.
39 Ibid., 108.
40 Ibid., 126, 138.
41 Ibid., 135.
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King’s Horses, 182-84.
42 James B. Allen, Ronald W. Walker, and David J. Whittaker, Studies in Mormon History, 1830-1997: An Indexed Bibliography (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000).
Alfred Bush, "Mormon Americana at Princeton University," in Mormon Americana: A Guide to Sources and Collections in the United States, edited by David J. Whittaker (Provo, Utah: BYU Studies, 1995), 281-95.
43 Forsberg, Equal Rites, xxiii.
Klaus J. Hansen and Alfred Bush, "Notes towards a Definition of the Council of Fifty," 1957, Klaus J. Hansen Papers, Manuscripts Division, Marriott Library, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
44 Jan Shipps, "Thoughts about the Academic Community’s Response to John Brooke’s The Refiner’s Fire," in her Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), 204.
Klaus J. Hansen, "Jan Shipps among the Mormons," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 37, no. 3 (Fall 2004): 23-24.
Lance S. Owens, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 27, no. 4 (Winter 1994): 187-91.
The Refiner’s Fire, 305.
45 Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire, xv-xvi.
46 Ibid., 4.
47 John W. Welch, "Two Reviews: Mormonism and the Hermetic World View," editor’s preface to Reviews of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, BYU Studies 34, no. 4 (1994-95): 165.
48 Richard Bushman, "The Mysteries of Mormonism," Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Journal of the Early Republic 15 (1995): 501-8;
Philip L. Barlow, "Decoding Mormonism," Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Christian Century, January 17, 1996, 52-55;
Grant Underwood, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Pacific Historical Review 65 (1996): 323-24.
Hanover College and author of Mormons and the Bible: The Place of the Latter-day Saints in American Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
BYU-Hawaii and had recently published The M illenarian World of Early Mormonism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993).
49 Underwood, Review, 323;
Barlow, "Decoding Mormonism," 53;
Bushman, "Mysteries of Mormonism," 504.
50 Barlow, "Decoding Mormonism," 53;
Underwood, Review, 323.
51 Barlow, "Decoding Mormonism," 54.
52 Bushman, "Mysteries of Mormonism," 504.
53 William J. Hamblin, Daniel C. Peterson, and George L. Mitton, "Mormon in the Fiery Furnace, Or Loftes Tryk Goes to Cambridge," Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, FARMS Review of Books 6, no. 2 (1994): 3-58, retrieved on December 23, 2004, from http://farms.byu.edu/display.phpitable=review&id=151;
William J. Hamblin, Daniel C. Peterson, and George L. Mitton, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, BYU Studies 34, no. 4 (1994-95): 167-81.
54 Davis Bitton, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, BYU Studies 34, no. 4 (1994-95): 182-92.
55 Ibid., 182, 186, 191.
56 Hamblin, Peterson, and Mitton, "Mormon in the Fiery Furnace."
57 Barlow, "Decoding Mormonism," 53;
Shipps, "Thoughts about the Academic Community’s Response," 214 note 8.
58 Louis Midgley, "The Shipps Odyssey in Retrospect," Review of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition, by Jan Shipps, FARMS Review of Books 7, no. 2 (1995): 219-52; retrieved on December 23, 2004, from http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=review&ud=194.
59 Bitton, Review, 184-85.
60 Boyd K. Packer, "The Mande Is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect," BYU Studies 21, no. 3 (Summer 1981): 262.
61 Leonard J. Arrington, Adventures of a Church Historian (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998).
62 Faithful History: Essays on Writing Mormon History, edited by George D. Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1992).
63 Richard L. Bushman, Believing History: Latter-day Saint Essays, edited by Reid L. Neilson and Jed Woodworth (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004).
64 Hamblin, Peterson, and Mitton, "Mormon in the Fiery Furnace,"
Shipps, "Thoughts on the Academic Community’s Response," 210.
65 Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire, 72, 210.
66 Underwood, Review, 323;
Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire, 159-60.
67 Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire, 9, 257-58.
68 Ibid., 278.
69 Shipps, "Thoughts on the Academic Community’s Response," 205-6.
70 Ibid., 211.
71 Ibid., 212-13.
72 Charles L. Cohen, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, William and Mary Quarterly 53 (1996): 214-15;
Curtis D. Johnson, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Journal of American History 82 (1995): 685.
73 Cohen, Review, 214;
Johnson, Review, 684;
George M. Eberhart, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, College and Research Libraries News, January 1995, 37.
74 Myron Marty, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Journal of Religion 76 (1996): 648;
Paul Johnson, "The Alchemist," Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Nevu Republic, June 12, 1995, 46-48.
75 Curtis Johnson, Review, 684;
Paul Johnson, "The Alchemist," 47-48;
Martin Marty, "Saints for These Latter Days," Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Commonweal, March 10, 1995, 26.
77 Rachelle E. Friedman, Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 27 (1996): 329-31.
78 Stephen E. Robinson popularized discourse about grace among Mormons in the early 1990s, principally through his Believing Christ: The Parable of the Bicycle and Other Good News (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1992).
Joseph Fielding McConkie, Answers: Straightforward Answers to Tough Gospel Questions (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1998), 59-60.
Bitton, Review, 189
79 Friedman, Review, 330.
80 Paul Johnson, "The Alchemist," 46.
81 Myron Marty, Review, 648.
82 Kenneth Anderson, "The Magi of the Great Salt Lake," Review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Times Literary Supplement, March 24, 1995, 11;
Curtis Johnson, Review, 684.
83 Cohen, Review, 213.
84 Paul Johnson, "The Alchemist," 46.
85 Martin Marty, "Saints for These Latter Days," 26-27.
86 Friedman, Review, 329-30.
87 Martin Marty, "Saints for These Latter Days," 27.
88 Anderson, "Magi of the Great Salt Lake," 10.
89 Cohen, Review, 215.
90 Douglas Davies, review of The Refiner’s Fire, by John L. Brooke, Scottish Journal of Theology 49, no. 2 (1996): 237.
91 Paul Johnson, "The Alchemist," 46, 48.
92 Myron Marty, Review, 648.
93 Kenneth L. Woodward, "A Mormon Moment," Newsweek, September 10, 2001, 44-51;
Lawrence Wright, "Lives of the Saints," New Yorker, January 21, 2002, 40-57;
"Church of the West," Economist, February 9, 2002, 25-26.
94 Woodward, "A Mormon Moment," 44.
95 "Church of the West," 26.
96 Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling, Mormon America: The Power and the Promise (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1999), 112.
97 "Church of the West," 26.
98 Wright, "Lives of the Saints," 44.
99 "Church of the West," 26.
100 Woodward, "A Mormon Moment," 46.
101 Wright, "Lives of the Saints," 40, 43-46, 54-56.
102 Ibid., 43.
103 Ostling and Ostling, Mormon America, chaps. 15, 21;
McLemee, "Latter-day Studies," A16.
104 Richard John Neuhaus, "Is Mormonism Christian?" First Things, March 2000, 100.
105 Wright, "Lives of the Saints," 52-53;
McLemee, "Latter-day Studies," A15-16;
Neuhaus, "Is Mormonism Christian?" 99.
106 Neuhaus, "Is Mormonism Christian?" 99.
107 Terry L. Givens, The Viper on the Flearth: Mormons, Mytfis, and the Construction ofhleresy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 155-56.
The Economist ("Church of the West," 25)
Wright, "Lives of the Saints," 42
Woodward, "A Mormon Moment," 46
"Church of the West," 26
"Saints for These Latter Days," 26
108 Duffy, "Defending the Kingdom," 25, 44 note 33.
110 Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire, xvi.
111 Mark A. Noll, "’And the Lion Shall Lie Down with the Lamb’: The Social Sciences and Religious History," Fides et Historia 20, no. 3 (October 1988): 20.
112 Shipps, "Thoughts on the Academic Community’s Response," 205.
114 Woodward, "A Mormon Moment," 48.
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