| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Jan Shipps. Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 400. $34.95.

Denominational history may seem a benign field from the outside, but once one steps onto the hallowed ground of Methodist, Baptist, or Jewish history, it can become a minefield for the unwary. There are few American groups with a more contentious national and religious history than the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, popularly known as the Mormons. From their early formative days in New York, to their battle-worn days in Illinois, to their heroic trek across the continent, the sect (now an international church based in Utah) has generated tremendous interest and controversy. 1

Jan Shipps has spent her entire professional career wandering over the Mormon landscape (littered with books and bodies), and this collection of short journalistic pieces and longer scholarly essays attests to her errand into the wilderness. Shipps, a Methodist, is one of a handful of non-Mormon scholars (Mario S. De-Pillis and Lawrence Foster the others) whose work has found acceptance by believers and nonbelievers alike. She is a self-confessed "Mormon-watcher," and during her forty years observing and writing about the Latter Day Saints she has seen them grow from an insular and parochial body of believers to a cosmopolitan and outward-looking international movement. . . .

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