The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
By: D. Michael Quinn
4.05
Format: 960 pages, Hardcover
The Mormon church today is led by an elite group of older men, nearly three-quarters of whom are r…
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By: James W. Fowler
4.31
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
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3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
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By: Terry Brooks
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5. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
By: Alison Bechdel
4.08
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
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6. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2)
By: Douglas Adams
3.66
Format: 325 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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7. The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ
By: Anonymous , Joseph Smith Jr.
3.62
Format: 57 pages, Paperback
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8. No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
By: Fawn M. Brodie
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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9. Power from on High: The Development of Mormon Priesthood
By: Gregory A. Prince
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
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10. American Zion: A New History of Mormonism
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4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
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11. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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12. Romney: A Reckoning
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4.36
Format: 416 pages, ebook
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13. The Nineties
By: Chuck Klosterman
3.87
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
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14. Save the Cat! Writes a Novel
By: Jessica Brody
4.50
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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15. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
By: Tim Miller
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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16. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe
By: Richard Rohr
4.45
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
By: Bart D. Ehrman
3.94
Format: None pages, Audio CD
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"Today we are familiar with the funereal abbreviation “RIP"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
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"atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods. The word “atheism"-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
"Ancient people, whether pagans, Jews, or Christians, did not neatly differentiate between the religious and the political. They would have had a hard time understanding the difference."-Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
19. Faith after Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do about It
By: Brian D. McLaren
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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20. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier
By: Benjamin E. Park
4.17
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or… read more
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21. Enos, Jarom, Omni: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #4)
By: Sharon J. Harris
4.44
Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition
"And I did cry unto God that he would preserve the records." Less than a generation after Sariah an… read more
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22. Vengeance Is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and Its Aftermath
By: Richard E. Turley
4.39
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking Massacre at Mountain Meadows Published in 2008, M… read more
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23. Visions in a Seer Stone: Joseph Smith and the Making of the Book of Mormon
By: William L. Davis
4.13
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
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24. All Things New: Rethinking Sin, Salvation, and Everything in Between
By: Fiona Givens
4.59
Format: 156 pages, Kindle Edition
Robert MacFarlane has written that "language does not just register experience, it produces it." Ou… read more
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25. Stretching the Heavens: The Life of Eugene England and the Crisis of Modern Mormonism
By: Terryl L. Givens
4.50
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Eugene England (1933-2001)—one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals in modern Mo… read more
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26. Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #7)
By: Mark A. Wrathall
4.45
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
"Now is the time and the day of your salvation . . ." Alma the Younger is forever changed by an … read more
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27. Alma 1–29: a brief theological introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #6)
By: Kylie Nielson Turley
4.56
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
". . . that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth." Alma is an idolatrou… read more
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28. Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By: Matthew L. Harris
4.91
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in… read more
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29. Into the Headwinds: Why Belief Has Always Been Hard―and Still Is
By: Terryl L. Givens
3.96
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
A deeper look at how people individually and collectively form religious beliefs—and what that mean… read more
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30. Helaman: a brief theological introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #8)
By: Kimberly Matheson Berkey
4.48
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
"Now is the time and the day of your salvation . . ." Alma the Younger is forever changed by an… read more
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31. The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power
By: D. Michael Quinn
4.05
Format: 960 pages, Hardcover
The Mormon church today is led by an elite group of older men, nearly three-quarters of whom are r… read more
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