Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon
Edited by Elizabeth Fenton and Jared Hickman
Table of Contents
Part One: Plates and Print
1. The Ghost and the Machine: Plates and Paratext in The Book of Mormon, R. John Williams
2. Books Buried in the Earth: The Book of Mormon, Revelation, and the Humic Foundations of the Nation, Jillian Sayre
3. Orson Pratt's Enduring Influence on The Book of Mormon, Paul Gutjahr
Part Two: Scripture and Secularity
4. The Book of Mormon and the Bible, Grant Hardy
5. An American Book of Chronicles: Pseudo-Biblicism and the Cultural Origins of The Book of Mormon, Eran Shalev
6. "To Read the Round of Eternity": Speech, Text, and Scripture in The Book of Mormon, Samuel Brown
7. "The writing of the fruit of thy loins": Reading, Writing, and Prophecy in The Book of Mormon, Laura Thiemann Scales
8. Nephite Secularization; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon, Grant Shreve
Part Three: Indigeneity and Imperialism
9. Kinship, The Book of Mormon, and Modern Revelation, Nancy Bentley
10. How the Mormons Became White: Scripture, Sex, Sovereignty, Peter Coviello
11. Nephites and Israelites: The Book of Mormon and the Hebraic Indian Theory, Elizabeth Fenton
12. "Great Cause to Mourn": The Complexity of The Book of Mormon's Presentation of Gender and Race, Kimberly Berkey and Joseph Spencer
13. "We're going to take our land back over": Reading The Book of Mormon from an Indigenous Space, Stanley J. Thayne
Part Four: Genre and Generation
14. The Book of Mormon and the Reshaping of Covenant, Terryl Givens
15. "Arise from the Dust, My Sons, and Be Men": Masculinity in The Book of Mormon, Amy Easton-Flake
16. "I Lead the Way, like Columbus": Joseph Smith, Genocide, and Revelatory Ambiguity, Zachary McLeod Hutchins
17. Book of Mormon Poetry, Edward Whitley