| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Book Review

Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons. By Jan Shipps. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. xiii + 400 pp. Appendixes, notes, index. $34.95.)

In this very thoughtful and provocative book, Jan Shipps combines "intellectual autobiography" with things she has "written at various points across several decades" (p. 5). The author's chief concern is with her observations of Mormonism "as a history of movement from insularity to universality" (p. 6). After a discerning prologue, she examines "Gentiles, Mormons, and the History of the American West," a penetrating study of Mormonism as it fits into the whole picture of western history (pp. 17–44). The book is then organized into five parts with a total of seventeen essays. 1

The text is written with clarity and a nice choice of words. Every essay is fully footnoted, and these notes are often as interesting and significant as the articles themselves. There are occasional striking phrases such as Joseph Smith's use of a "seer stone" as "sort of a psychic Geiger counter that helped him locate lost objects" (p. 289). . . .

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