Infused with Jan Shipps's lively curiosity, scholarly rigor, and contagious fascination with a significant subculture, Sojourner in the Promised Land presents a distinctive parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time shares with the reader what it has been like to be on the outside of a culture that remains both familiar and strange.| Cover Title Copyright Contents Acknowlegments Prologue 1. Gentiles, Mormons, and the History of the American West PART 1: STUDIES IN PERCEPTION 2. From Satyr to Saint" American Perceptions pf the Mormons, 1860-1960 3. Surveying the Mormon Image since 1960 4. From Gentile to Non-Mormon: Mormon Perceptions of the Other 5. Media Coverage of the Southern Baptist Convention in Salt Lake City PART 2: HISTORY, HISTORIOGRAPHY, AND WRITING ABOUT RELIGIOUS HISTORY 6. History, Her-story, and Their Story 7. A Capsule Bibliography of Mormonism 8. Remembering, Recovering, and Inventing What Being a People of God Means: Reflections on Method in the Scholarly Writing of Religious History 9. Dangerous History: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Her Mormon Sisters 10. Thoughts about the Academic Community's Response to John Brooke's Refiner's Fire PART 3: PUTTING RELIGION AT THE HEART OF MORMON HISTORY AND HISTORY AT THE HEART OF MORMONISM 11. The Reality of the Restoration in LDS Theology and Mormon Experience 12. Brigham Young and His Times: A Continuing Force in Mormonism 13. The Scattering of the Gathering and the Gathering of the Scattered: The Mid-Twentieth-Century Mormon Diaspora PART 4: DECIPHERING, EXPLICATING, CLARIFYING: EXERCISING AN INSIDE-OUTSIDER'S INFORMAL CALLING 14. Joseph Smith and the Creation of LDS Theology 15. Difference and Otherness: Mormonism and the American Religious Mainstream PART 5: HOW MY MIND WAS CHANGED AND MY UNDERSTANDING AMPLIFIED 16. Is Mormonism Christian?: Reflections on a Complicated Question 17. Knowledge and Understanding Epilogue: Passages Back cover | A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2002. — A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
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Jan Shipps is the president of the American Society of Church History and professor emeritus of history and religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She is the author of Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition and coeditor of The Journals of William E. McLellin.