Out of Obscurity
Mormonism since 1945
Edited by Patrick Q. Mason and John G. Turner
Author Information
Edited by Patrick Q. Mason, Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and Associate Professor of Religion, Religion Department, Claremont Graduate University, and John G. Turner, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, George Mason University
Patrick Q. Mason is the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and Associate Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University.
John G. Turner is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University.
Contributors:
Matthew J. Bowman is associate professor of history at Henderson State University. He is the author of The Mormon People: The Making of an American Faith (2012) and The Urban Pulpit: New York City and the Fate of Liberal Evangelicalism (2014).
Rebecca de Schweinitz is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and has been a fellow at Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center. A founding member of the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth, she is the author of If We Could Change the World: Young People and America's Long Struggle for Racial Equality (2009).
Kristine Haglund holds degrees in German Studies and German Literature from Harvard and the University of Michigan. Her research interests include gender and religion, Mormon women's and children's history, and religious publications in new media. She is the former editor of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
J.B. Haws is Assistant Professor of Church History at Brigham Young University and is the author of The Mormon Image in the American Mind: Fifty Years of Public Perception (2013). He has a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Utah, and he and his wife, Laura, live with their four children in Provo, Utah.
Amanda Hendrix-Komoto is Assistant Professor in the History and Philosophy Department at Montana State University. She has written articles on the intersections of colonialism, gender, and race in Mormon missionary work. She is currently revising her dissertation, "Imperial Zions: Mormon Missionary Work and the Politics of Domesticity in the Nineteenth Century," into a book manuscript.
Kate Holbrook holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Boston University. She is a Specialist in Women's History for the LDS Church History Department. She is coeditor of The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women's History (2016) and Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2016).
Caroline Kline is a Ph.D. candidate in Religion at Claremont Graduate University. Her areas of interest are Mormon women, gender theory, and theology. She is the co-editor of Mormon Women Have Their Say: Essays from the Claremont Oral History Collection (2013) and has been published in the journal Feminist Theology.
James Dennis LoRusso is a Research Fellow in The Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University. He completed his Ph.D. in American Religious Cultures at Emory University. His research examines how governments, markets, businesses, and workplaces are entangled with the history of religion in the United States.
Patrick Q. Mason is Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies and associate professor of American religious history at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of The Mormon Menace: Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South (2011), and editor of Directions for Mormon Studies in the 21st Century (2016).
Max Perry Mueller holds a Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University. He teaches religion at Amherst College, where is also a fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
Nathan B. Oman is Tazewell Taylor Research Professor at William and Mary Law School. He earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Articles Committee of the Harvard Law Review and as an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Morris Shepard Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and worked as a litigation associate in the Washington, DC office of Sidley Austin, LLP.
Sara M. Patterson teaches courses in theology, history of Christianity, and religion in the Americas at Hanover College. Patterson's research investigates the intersections of religious experience, place, and community. She is co-editor, with Fay Botham, of Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West (2005).
Taunalyn Rutherford is a Ph.D. candidate in Religion at Claremont Graduate University and an adjunct instructor in Religious Education at Brigham Young University.
John G. Turner teaches at George Mason University. He is the author most of The Mormon Jesus: A Biography (2016) and Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (2012).
Neil J. Young is an independent historian and the author of We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics (2016). He has taught at Princeton University and Columbia University. He is co-host of the history podcast Past Present.
