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Among the September Six, scholars involved in a 1993 LDS controversy; Claudia Bushman: Columbia — professor American Studies emerita; Claremont Graduate University — Mormon studies program from 2008 to 2011; Historian; Kathryn M. Daynes: BYU — assistant professor in the Department of History; published on polygamy
Rees, a graduate of Long Beach Woodrow Wilson High School, received his B.A. from Brigham Young University and M.A. and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.For twenty-five years he taught at University of California, Los Angeles, where he also served as assistant dean of fine arts, director of continuing education in the arts and humanities, and director of studies for three UCLA ...
Mormon studies is the interdisciplinary academic study of the beliefs, practices, history and culture of individuals and denominations belonging to the Latter Day Saint movement, a religious movement associated with the Book of Mormon, though not all churches and members of the Latter Day Saint movement identify with the terms Mormon or Mormonism.
Scholars of Mormon studies, the interdisciplinary academic study of the beliefs, practices, history and culture of those known by the term Mormon and denominations belonging to the Latter Day Saint movement whose members do not generally go by the term "Mormon".
The Maxwell Institute was established in 2006 as an umbrella organization for several of BYU's academic initiatives, including: the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative (METI), the Center for the Preservation of Ancient Religious Texts (CPART), the Laura F. Willes Center for Book of Mormon Studies, and the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). [2]
From 2013 to 2023, McClellan worked as scripture translation supervisor for the LDS Church. [2] [9] He has a bachelor's degree in ancient Near Eastern studies from Brigham Young University with a minor in Classical Greek, [10] a master's degree in Jewish studies at the University of Oxford, and a master of arts in biblical studies from Trinity Western University.
Leonard James Arrington (July 2, 1917 – February 11, 1999) was an American author, academic and the founder of the Mormon History Association.He is known as the "Dean of Mormon History" [1] and "the Father of Mormon History" [2] because of his many influential contributions to the field.
In LDS circles, Robinson is generally considered to be orthodox and to have a reliable grasp of LDS doctrine. He came to the center of a conflict between the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) and Salt Lake City publisher Signature Books, through his critical review of the writing of Dan Vogel, by describing it as being patterned after the teachings of Korihor, [4] an ...