Miranda Wilcox is Assistant Professor of English at Brigham Young University where she teaches medieval literature.

John D. Young is Assistant Professor of History at Flagler College where he teaches medieval history.

LINCOLN H. BLUMELL (Ph.D. University of Toronto), Assistant Professor of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University

MATTHEW BOWMAN (Ph.D. Georgetown University), Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion, Hampden Sydney College

CORY D. CRAWFORD (Ph.D. Harvard University), Assistant Professor of Classics and World Religions, Ohio University

ERIC R DURSTELER (Ph.D. Brown University), Associate Professor of History, Brigham Young University

STEPHEN J. FLEMING, doctoral candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara

CHRISTOPHER C. JONES, doctoral candidate, The College of William and Mary

TERRYL GIVENS (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Professor of Literature and Religion and the James Bostwick Chair of English, University of Richmond

JONATHAN GREEN (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Visiting Assistant Professor of German, University of North Dakota

MATTHEW J. GREY (Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Assistant Professor of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University

ARIEL BYBEE LAUGHTON (Ph.D. Duke University), Independent Scholar of Religion

DAVID D. PECK (J.D., Ph.D. University of Utah), Professor of History, Brigham Young University-Idaho

TAYLOR G. PETREY (Th.D. Harvard Divinity School), Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Assistant Professor of Religion, Kalamazoo College

MIRANDA WILCOX (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame), Assistant Professor of English, Brigham Young University

JOHN D. YOUNG (Ph.D. University of Notre Dame), Assistant Professor of History, Flagler College

SPENCER E. YOUNG (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison), Research Associate, ARC Centre of Excellence
for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia

Winner of the Best Anthology Award from John Whitmer Historical Association

"Readers familiar with LDS theology will find each of the chapters in Standing Apart insightful and well researched. Scholars of early Christianity and Mormonism will likewise benefit from the academic treatment of this topic."--BYU Studies Quarterly

"In my estimation, Standing Apart is the most important Mormon studies book since Bushman s Rough Stone Rolling...It deserves to be engaged by Mormons but will also be of interest to scholars of religion more broadly who value sensitive but critical interreligious engagement. I give Standing Apart my highest recommendation."--Blair Hodges, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

"No religion has more consistently defined itself against a religious 'other' than the Latter-day Saints. Now Mormon intellectuals are asking what a 'Great Apostasy' from early Christianity means in light of current historical scholarship and growing Mormon respect for other religions. This is one of the most significant books on Mormon thought in this generation and relevant to all religions who define themselves against a religious 'other'." --Richard Bushman, author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling

"This collection is ambitious and wonderfully readable... it reveals just how dynamic, vibrant, and contested the Latter-day Saints' understanding of the past and of apostasy has been from the start." --Mormon Studies Review

"Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy is a useful contribution to historical theology, especially helpful to advanced students of American religious history."-Fides et Historia

"The volume is both a work of Mormon historical theology and Mormon constructive theology."-- David Howlett, Nova Religio