Idols of the tribes: An intellectual and critical history of 19th and 20th century Mormon Studies.

摘要

Idols of the Tribes: An Intellectual and Critical History of 19th and 20th Century Mormon Studies is an intellectual history of Mormon Studies from the early 1830s, when Mormonism arose, to today. Idols of the Tribes, however, is more than simply an intellectual history of polemical, apologetic, sociological, and historical approaches to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is also, on another level, a history of American intellectual culture and academic culture and, on another level, an essay in the sociology of knowledge.