Shipps, Jan 1929-

Overview

Works:	55 works in 81 publications in 2 languages and 3,697 library holdings
Roles:	Editor
Classifications:	bx8611, 289.3

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Publications about Jan Shipps

Publications by Jan Shipps

Most widely held works about Jan Shipps

Jan Shipps by Jan Shipps ( Book )
Mormon Historians and Historiography collection by Various Mormon Historians ( )
The rise of Mormon cultural history and the changing status of the archive by Joseph M Spencer ( Book )
The long honeymoon : Jan Shipps among the Mormons by Klaus J Hansen ( Book )
Jan Shipps and the mainstreaming of Mormon studies : [review of Sojourner in the promised land by Philip L Barlow ( Book )

Most widely held works by Jan Shipps

Mormonism : the story of a new religious tradition by Jan Shipps ( Book )
10 editions published between 1983 and 1987 in English and held by 1,596 libraries worldwide
Mormonism is one of the fastest growing, most misunderstood, and most debated religions of recent times. Even the simple act of defining WHAT Mormonism is (or should be) has been filled with controversy. The author reconstructs the signal events of early Mormonism as perceived from INSIDE the faith.

Sojourner in the promised land : forty years among the Mormons by Jan Shipps ( Book )
6 editions published between 2000 and 2006 in English and held by 699 libraries worldwide

Religion and public life in the Mountain West : sacred landscapes in transition ( Book )
5 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 308 libraries worldwide

The journals of William E. McLellin, 1831-1836 by William E McLellin ( Book )
1 edition published in 1994 in English and held by 185 libraries worldwide

In the whirlpool : the pre-manifesto letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin family, 1885-1890 by Wilford Woodruff ( Book )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 55 libraries worldwide
Well-edited collection of previously unpublished letters that provides insights into Wilford Woodruff's thought and perplexities, personal feelings and inner struggles, leading up to his 1890 Manifesto on polygamy.

The Mormons in politics : the first hundred years by Jan Shipps ( Book )
7 editions published between 1965 and 1974 in English and held by 23 libraries worldwide

Twentieth-century Mormonism and the secular establishment by Jan Shipps ( Book )
2 editions published between 1986 and 1988 in English and held by 16 libraries worldwide

Signifying sainthood, 1830-2001 by Jan Shipps ( Book )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide

The scattering of the gathered and the gathering of the scattered : the Mormon diaspora in the mid-twentieth century by Jan Shipps ( Book )
1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide

Sonia Johnson, Mormonism and the Media by Jan Shipps ( Book )
2 editions published in 1980 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide

George Santayana's religious naturalism ; and, Religion in 19th century England and America ( Recording )
1 edition published in 1986 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
Side A. The Spanish-born American philosopher of religion George Santayana (1863-1952) said, "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it." Considers how should we best interpret Santayana's admonition about progress and history and what the contemporary cultural importance is of Santayana's religious thinking.

The Dead Sea scrolls, the ethics of scholarship, and modern religious history by Eric M Meyers ( Recording )
1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide

The Mormons in politics, 1839-1844 by Jan Shipps ( Book )
2 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide

The prophet puzzle : suggestions leading toward a more comprehensive interpretation of Joseph Smith by Jan Shipps ( Book )
2 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

An "insider-outsider" in Zion by Jan Shipps ( Book )
1 edition published in 1982 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

The neglected story of Mormonism today : what Mike Wallace missed by Jan Shipps ( Book )
1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

Book review of] Brigham Young: American Moses, by Leonard J. Arrington by Jan Shipps ( Book )
1 edition published in 1986 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

Book review of] Mormon odyssey: the story of Ida Hunt Udall, plural wife, ed. by Maria S. Ellsworth by Jan Shipps ( Book )
1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

The reality of the restoration and the restoration ideal in the Mormon tradition by Jan Shipps ( Book )
1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

The Mormons' progress by Malise Ruthven ( Book )
1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
"In the 19th century they were pariahs who turned American values upside-down: the Mormons substituted Communalism for individualism, theocracy for democracy, and polygamy for monogamy. In the 20th century they became champions of capitalism and the American dream-and one of the most prosperous and fastest-growing religions in the world."--Contents p.