{"id":130,"date":"2003-12-02T17:21:41","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=130"},"modified":"2006-06-01T14:18:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-01T18:18:06","slug":"bushman-beats-brodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2003\/12\/bushman-beats-brodie\/","title":{"rendered":"Bushman beats Brodie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps second only to <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/archives\/000129.html#more\">regular features <\/a>as a reliable blog standby are lists.  I know, I know, such posts usually generate endless quibbling about meaningless personal preferences.  But I want to propose what I think will be a worthwhile exercise.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know, what are the five essential texts in Mormon studies?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat I have in mind here are the most influential scholarly works in Mormon history, sociology, theology, or any other area of interest to Mormons.  I know that when I first became interested in such things, I scoured my parents&#8217; bookshelves looking for anything promising, then turned to my Mom&#8217;s back issues of Sunstone.  I gradually figured out which texts formed the background for the current conversations among Mormon thinkers.  A lot of time would have been saved if someone had given me a short list of must-reads.  Perhaps we can begin to generate such a list here.  <\/p>\n<p>So here are my top five most essential, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>Richard Bushman, Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism<br \/>\nLeonard Arrington, The Mormon Experience<br \/>\nMichael Quinn, Early Mormonism and the Magic World View<br \/>\nJan Shipps, Mormonism<br \/>\nSterling McMurrin, Theological Foundations of the Mormon Religion<\/p>\n<p>What important books have I missed?  Which ones have I overrated?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps second only to regular features as a reliable blog standby are lists. I know, I know, such posts usually generate endless quibbling about meaningless personal preferences. But I want to propose what I think will be a worthwhile exercise. I want to know, what are the five essential texts in Mormon studies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essential-texts-in-mormon-studies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}