Mormonism The Basics

"Mormonism: The Basics provides a reliable and accessible guide to America's largest indigenous religion, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its variants. The authors don't shy away from controversial issues, but their handling of them is deft and fair." - Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College, USA

"Howlett and Duffy masterfully weave together the various streams of Mormonism and produce an innovative exploration of how religions evolve over time. Mormonism: The Basics is a must-have guide to the vast legacy of Joseph Smith." - Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, USA

"For the nonspecialist professor, they provide useful information, chapters that can be easily integrated into a syllabus, and pedagogical suggestions. The books will prove most useful to teachers when situated within broader developments in the historiography of Mormonism." - Jennifer Graber, University of Texas at Austin, USA

"This is an extraordinarily well-thought-through book. Befitting their religious studies training, co-authors Duffy and Howlett have produced a volume that (...) offers a sophisticated analysis both of Mormonism (in several of its streams) and of the American religious landscape more generally, along several lines of analysis." - Matthew Bowman, Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, USA