Shipps, Jan 1929-

Overview

Works:	70 works in 120 publications in 2 languages and 3,001 library holdings
Genres:	History Autobiographies Diaries Sources Personal correspondence Academic theses Book reviews
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Author of introduction
Classifications:	BX8611, 289.3

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Jan Shipps

Sojourner in the promised land : forty years among the Mormons by Jan Shipps( Book )
The rise of Mormon cultural history and the changing status of the archive by Joseph M Spencer( )
Jan Shipps : a social and intellectual portrait : how a Methodist girl from Hueytown, Alabama, became an acclaimed Mormon studies scholar by Gordon Shepherd( Book )
Jan Shipps by Jan Shipps( Book )
The long honeymoon : Jan Shipps among the Mormons by Klaus J Hansen( )

Jan Shipps and the mainstreaming of Mormon studies : [review of Sojourner in the promised land] by Philip L Barlow( )

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Most widely held works by Jan Shipps

Mormonism : the story of a new religious tradition by Jan Shipps( Book )

19 editions published between 1983 and 1987 in English and French and held by 1,509 WorldCat member 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

Religion and public life in the Mountain West : sacred landscapes in transition by Mark Silk( Book )

6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West. The region is home to several dense urban centers, but there is enough space between cities for three very distinct religious cultures to develop. Arizona and New Mexico's religious public life is still dominated by the Catholic church which was in place three centuries before these areas became U.S. states. Mormons came to Utah and Idaho in the 19th century to set up their own church-state and only later were admitted to the Union. Religious minorities from Native Americans to 'mainstream' Protestants must contend

The journals of William E. McLellin, 1831-1836 by William E McLellin( Book )

4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 190 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

William Earl McLellin (1806-1883) was born in Smith County, Tennessee. He married Cinthia Ann in 1829 in Illinois. She died in about 1830-1831 in childbirth. In 1831 William joined the LDS Church and went on several missions. In 1832 he was excommunicated for a short time but was rebaptized and, in 1835, was one of the first members of the Twelve Apostles. By this time he had married Emeline Miller they had six children. He and his family settled in Jackson County, Missouri and suffered the persecutions against the Mormons. By late 1836 William and his family had left the LDS Church and settled in Illinois for a short time before returning to Missouri

In the whirlpool : the pre-manifesto letters of President Wilford Woodruff to the William Atkin family, 1885-1890 by Wilford Woodruff( Book )

4 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 76 WorldCat member 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 1986 in English and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Signifying sainthood, 1830-2001 by Jan Shipps( Book )

1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member 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 15 WorldCat member 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 10 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Mountain Meadows Massacre by Juanita Brooks( Book )

2 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 5 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The incident at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah where in 1857 an entire party of emigrants was slain by Mormons and Indians is examined including some long-buried facts and and evidence as to the responsibility for the affair. John Doyle Lee is examined in detail regarding his participation and ultimately being the only Mormon to stand trial and his eventual execution by firing squad for his role in the whole tragic affair. Also contains some material on Porter Maxwell

The Mormons in politics, 1839-1844 by Jan Shipps( )

3 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Mormons : looking forward and outward" by Jan Shipps( )

3 editions published in 1978 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sojourner in the promised land : forty years among the Mormons by Jan Shipps( Book )

2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Sojourner in the Promised Land presents an unusual parallel history in which Shipps surrounds her professional writings about the Latter-day Saints with an ongoing personal description of her encounters with them. By combining a portrait of the dynamic evolution of contemporary Mormonism with absorbing intellectual autobiography, Shipps illuminates the Mormons and at the same time shares with the reader what it has been like to be an intimate outsider in a culture that remains for her both familiar and strange."

Second-class saints by Jan Shipps( )

2 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member 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 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Side B. In her book, "Mormonism : the story of a new religious tradition", Shipps finds in 19th-century Mormonism an analogy to Christianity itself as it emerged from Judaism in the time of Christ. Also, Pfaff and Reed argue that the Anglo-Catholic revival (also known as the Oxford Movement) illustrates various important distinctions between the state and the Victorian English Church as well as the process by which counter-cultural movements become part of established religious institutions

Sonia Johnson, Mormonism and the Media by Jan Shipps( Book )

1 edition published in 1980 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Short notices by Jan Shipps( )

2 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Utah comes of age politically : a study of the state's politics in the early years of the Twentieth Century by Jan Shipps( )

2 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Joseph Smith and the making of a global religion by Jan Shipps( )

1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Spinning gold : Mormonism and the Olympic Games by Jan Shipps( )

1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

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