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Jan Shipps

Author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition

8+ Works 180 Members 2 Reviews 1 Favorited

About the Author

Jan Shipps is a professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis.

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Works by Jan Shipps

Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition (1985) 112 copies, 1 review

Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons (2000) 30 copies, 1 review

The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831-1836 (1994) — Editor — 19 copies

Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West: Sacred Landscapes in Transition (Religion By Region) (2004) — Editor; Introduction; Conclusion — 15 copies

In the Whirlpool: The Pre-manifesto Letters to President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin Family, 1885-1890 (2011) — Contributor — 9 copies

The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures: The First Twenty Years (2006) — Contributor — 8 copies

Signifying Sainthood, 1830-2001 (2002) 1 copy

Mormonism in America 1 copy

Associated Works

The Mountain Meadows Massacre (1950) — Introduction, some editions — 217 copies, 2 reviews

Encyclopedia of Mormonism (1992) — Contributor — 59 copies

Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (2000) — Contributor — 41 copies

The New Mormon History: Revisionist Essays on the Past (Essays on Mormonism Series) (1992) — Contributor — 41 copies

The Worlds of Joseph Smith: A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress (2006) — Contributor — 31 copies

Sisters in Spirit: Mormon Women in Historical and Cultural Perspective (1987) — Foreword — 30 copies

The American Quest for the Primitive Church (1988) — Contributor — 28 copies

Historical Atlas of Mormonism (1994) — Contributor — 22 copies

Contemporary Mormonism: Social Science Perspectives (1994) — Contributor — 18 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Mormonism (2015) — Contributor — 16 copies

Mormons and Mormonism: An Introduction to an American World Religion (2001) — Contributor — 14 copies

New Views of Mormon History: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Leonard J. Arrington (1987) — Contributor — 14 copies

The Collected Leonard J. Arrington Mormon History Lectures (2004) — Contributor — 13 copies

The Prophet Puzzle: Interpretive Essays on Joseph Smith (Essays on Mormonism Series) (1999) — Contributor — 9 copies

Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia (2010) — Contributor — 7 copies

Mormonism and American Politics (2015) — Contributor — 7 copies

God and Country: Politics in Utah (2005) — Contributor — 6 copies

Directions for Mormon studies in the twenty-first century (2016) — Contributor — 6 copies

New Perspectives in Mormon Studies: Creating and Crossing Boundaries (2013) — Foreword — 6 copies

Parley P. Pratt and the Making of Mormonism (2011) — Contributor — 5 copies

BYU Studies - Vol. 14, No. 3 (Spring 1974) (1974) — Contributor — 4 copies

BYU Studies - Vol. 16, No. 2 (Winter 1976) (1976) — Contributor — 4 copies

Journal of Mormon History - Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 2003 (2003) — Contributor — 3 copies

After 150 years: The Latter-day Saints in sesquicentennial perspective (Charles Redd monographs in western history) (1983) — Contributor — 3 copies

Journal of Mormon History - Volume 11 (1984) (1984) — Contributor — 3 copies

Honoring Juanita Brooks: A Compilation of 30 Annual Presentations from the Juanita Brooks Lecture Series, Dixie State… (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies

Journal of Mormon History - Volume 1 (1974) (1974) — Contributor — 2 copies

Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring 1967 (1967) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 3, Number 4 (Winter 1968) (1968) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 16:6, Issue 92, November 1993 (1993) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Issue 141, April 2006 (2006) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Issue 118, April 2001 (2001) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 15, Number 1 (Spring 1982) (1982) — Contributor — 1 copy

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought - Volume 36, Number 1 (Spring 2003) (2003) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 6:6, November/December 1981 (1981) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 4:2, March-April 1979 (1979) — Contributor — 1 copy

Sunstone - Vol. 19:3, Issue 103, September 1996 (1996) — Contributor — 1 copy

Utah Historical Quarterly - Vol. 45, No. 4, Fall 1977 - Utah In National Politics (1977) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Other names: Shipps, Jo Ann Barnett
Birthdate: 1929-10-04
Gender: female
Nationality: USA
Occupations: historian
scholar of religious studies
history professor
religious studies professor
Organizations: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
IUPUI Center for American Studies (director)
Mormon History Association (president)
Awards and honors: John Whitmer Historical Association Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
Short biography: historian generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Latter Day Saint movement

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Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition by Jan Shipps

Good account from a friendly outsider about LDS Church and culture.

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Sojourner in the Promised Land: FORTY YEARS AMONG… by Jan Shipps

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Mormon History Association Award

Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons (Best Book – 2001)

The Journals of William E. McLellin, 1831-1836 (Documentary – 1995)

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Works: 8
Also by: 38
Members: 180
Popularity: #119,865
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 15
Favorited: 1

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