Criticism of Mormonism/Books

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Analysis of books critical of Mormonism



Analysis of books critical of Mormonism


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Response to claims made in American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, a work by author Sally Denton


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Response to claims made in An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer

Summary: In Insider's View of Mormon Origins was developed during a period of time that its author worked as a teacher in the Church Educational System (CES), and was published after the author's retirement from Church employment. The book attempts to explain many otherwise clearly described events of the restoration by reinterpreting them as spiritual rather than physical events.


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Response to claims made in Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 1 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner

Response to claims made in Answering Mormon Scholars Vol. 2 by Jerald and Sandra Tanner

Response to claims made in Archaeology and the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner

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Response to claims made in Becoming Gods by Richard Abanes

Response to claims made in Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley

Response to claims made in By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri by Charles Larson

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Response to claims made in Covering Up the Black Hole in the Book of Mormon

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Response to claims made in Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism

Response to claims made in Deconstructing Mormonism by Thomas Riskas

Response to claims made in Do Christians Believe in Three Gods?

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Response to claims made in Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn


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Response to claims made in In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton

Response to claims made in Inside Today's Mormonism by Richard Abanes

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Response to claims made in Letters to a Mormon Elder by James White

Response to claims made in Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon Southerton

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Response to claims made in Mormonism 101

Response to claims made in Mormonism: Shadow or Reality

Response to claims made in Mormonism Unmasked

Response to claims made in Mormonism Unvailed

Response to claims made in Mormon America: The Power and the Promise

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Response to claims made in Nauvoo Polygamy by George D. Smith

Response to claims made in No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn Brodie

Summary: Louis Midgley: "Though Fawn McKay Brodie forged a reputation as a controversial psychohistorian, it is her 1945 biography of Joseph Smith for which she has always been known among Latter-day Saints. She thought of herself, and has been portrayed by cultural Mormons, as an "objective" historian who had taken the measure of "the Mormon prophet." Her death on 10 January 1981 was followed by tributes in which she was depicted as a heroic figure who had courageously liberated herself from bondage to the mind-numbing religious orthodoxy of her parochial childhood and who had thereby set in place among Latter-day Saints what one of her admirers called "a new climate of liberation." Fawn McKay Brodie: A Biographer's Life—the latest and most comprehensive of these tributes to Brodie—constitutes a substantial addition to the tiny academic specialty that might be called 'Brodie studies'."[1]


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Response to claims made in One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes

Summary: In early 2002 a new book entitled One Nation under Gods (ONUG) appeared on bookshelves, promising to tell the "real" history of the Mormon Church. The author attempts to pull disparate sources together to paint a picture that, when compared to objective reality, more closely resembles a Picasso than a Rembrandt—skewed and distorted—obscuring and maligning the actual doctrines and beliefs as understood and practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 150 years. FairMormon's original review of One Nation Under Gods was of the original 2002 hardback edition. The author has responded that there were editorial problems with this edition. We acknowledge that corrections were made in the paperback edition released in 2003 in response to some of the original reviews. Consequently, all previous FairMormon reviews have been edited for accuracy and tone, and the paperback edition of this work has been evaluated on its own merits. (It should be noted that the corrected paperback edition bears no markings indicating that it is a second edition or an updated edition; it simply appears as a paperback edition of the original.) This is an index of claims made in this work with links to corresponding responses. An effort has been made to provide the author's original sources where possible. In the subarticles linked below the hardback edition is represented by "HB" and the paperback edition by "PB."


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Response to claims made in Passing the Heavenly Gift by Denver Snuffer

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Response to claims made in Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn

Response to claims made in Studies of the Book of Mormon by B. H. Roberts

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Response to claims made in The Book of Lehi by Christopher Nemelka

Response to claims made in The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Norman L. Geisler

Response to claims made in The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri: A Complete Edition by Robert Ritner

Response to claims made in The Kingdom of the Cults by Walter Martin, Hank Hanegraaff (editor)

Response to claims made in The Lion of the Lord by Stanley P. Hirshson

Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn

Response to claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

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Response to claims made in Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

"Understanding Mormon Disbelief: Why do some Mormons lose their testimony and what happens to them when they do?" by Open Stories Foundation

Summary: Responses to a "study" which claims to illuminate the reasons for Mormon disaffection.

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Response to claims made in Visions of Glory by John Pontius

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Response to claims made in Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma by Wayne Cowdery, Howard Davis, and Donald Scales

Summary: This book attempted to revive the moribund Spalding manuscript theory for the Book of Mormon. Cowdery et al. claimed to have discovered Spalding's handwriting in the Book of Mormon original manuscript. In addition to the insurmountable historical problems with the Spalding theory, the supposed "Spalding" handwriting has likewise been found in documents produced in June 1831--fifteen years after Spalding's death.


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Notes

  1. ↑ Louis Midgley, "The Legend and Legacy of Fawn Brodie," FARMS Review of Books 13:1 (2001).
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