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“Mauss’s contribution to Mormon scholarship and to sociological theory was to argue that over time Mormonism had adjusted the degree of strain with the rest of the world. Bushman . This ongoing adjustment phenomenon had not been recognized by sociologists before Mauss discovered

• Title : Shifting Borders and a Tattered Passport: Intellectual Journeys of a Mormon Academic
• Author : Armand L. Mauss
• Rating : 4.50 (325 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-7-14
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 280 Pages
• Asin : 1607812045
• Language : English

“Mauss’s contribution to Mormon scholarship and to sociological theory was to argue that over time Mormonism had adjusted the degree of strain with the rest of the world. Bushman . This ongoing adjustment phenomenon had not been recognized by sociologists before Mauss discovered it in Mormonism. Mauss always stood at the shifting border between the university and the church, ready to step across onto the church side whenever he could make a difference.”—from the foreword by Richard L. Now it has become a significant corollary to the theory of New Religious Movements

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Writing in clear language, Mauss shows how he has navigated the boundaries where his faith and academic life intersect, and reveals why a continuing commitment to the LDS Church must be a product of choice more than of natural or supernatural “proof.” . Mauss recounts his personal and intellectual struggles—inside and outside the LDS world—from his childhood to his days as a graduate student at UC Berkeley in the 1960s through his many years as a professor.As an important and influential observer and author in the Mormon intellectual world, Mauss has witnessed how, in attempting to suppress independent and unsponsored scholarship during the final decades of the twentieth century, LDS leaders deliberately marginalized important intellectual support and resources that could have helped, in the twenty-first century, to refurbish the public image of the church. He also discusses national and academic controversies over the New Religious Movements of the 1960s and 1970s. The life of a Mormon intellectual in the secular academic communi