What Is Mormonism?: A Student’s Introduction

What is Mormonism?: A Student’s Introduction answers its title’s question with an easy-to-read but rigorous and informative overview of the religion founded by Joseph Smith in 1830. The short and lively book covers Mormonism‘s history, core beliefs, rituals and devotional practices, as well as the impact on the daily lives of its adherents and the communities and nations in which they reside. Most of What is Mormonism? focuses on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Salt Lake City-based church of 15 million members that is the largest and best-known expression of Mormonism, but it also explores some of the other churches and sects that claim descent from Smith’s original revelations. Designed in particular for the undergraduate history or religious studies classroom, the book provides a reliable and easily digestible orientation to a steadily growing religion that continues to befuddle even learned observers of American religion and culture.