Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association
Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association (JMSSA) is a peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the Mormon Social Science Association. Founded in 1979, the MSSA is an interdisciplinary scholarly society promoting the study of social life within the Latter Day Saint movement. Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association publishes original research, synthetic reviews, and theoretical or methodological essays on topics relevant to the Latter Day Saint movement from a social science perspective.
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Volume 1
Introducing Journal of the Mormon Social Science Association
Rick Phillips, University of North Florida
Articles
Education, Religious Participation, and Conservatism Among Mormons in the United States
Tim B. Heaton, Brigham Young University
The End of Growth: Fading Prospects for Latter-day Saints Expansion
David G. Stewart, Jr., University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Apocalypse or Zion? How Eschatology Affects Attitudes toward Social Peace among Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Chad Ford, Brigham Young University, Hawaii
Boyd Timothy, University of Washington
Réka Bordás-Simon, Make.Shift
Zach Tilton, Western Michigan University
An Indian Princess and a Mormon Sacagawea? Decolonizing Memories of Our Grandmothers
Thomas W. Murphy, Edmonds College
Kerrie Sumner Murphy, University of Washington
Jessyca Brigette Murphy, Make.Shift
La Familia versus The Family: Matriarchal Patriarchies in Peruvian Mormonism
Jason Palmer, University of California, Irvine
The Anthropology of Mormonism: An Emerging Field
Adam Dunstan, Kenai Peninsula College
Erica Hawvermale, Syracuse University
Lectures and Symposia
Pulling toward Zion: Mormonism in its Global Dimensions
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Washington University in St. Louis
Symposium on the Lives and Work of Armand L. Mauss and O. Kendall White
Daryl White, Spelman College
Gary Shepherd, Oakland University
Gordon Shepherd, University of Central Arkansas
David Knowlton, Utah Valley University
Reviews
Richard Bushman’s Biography, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling, Assessed from a Sociological Point of View
Gordon Shepherd, University of Central Arkansas
Gary Shepherd, Oakland University
Book Review: Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism
Philip Jenkins, Baylor University