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anthropology of religion
Anthropology of the Book of Mormon
Author_Thomas W. Murphy
Book of Mormon historiography
Book of Mormon origins
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comparative religion
decolonizing religious studies
decolonizing scripture
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ethnohistory and religion
faith and prophecy in Native cultures
forthcoming
Handsome Lake prophecy
Handsome Lake teachings
Haudenosaunee and Mormonism
Haudenosaunee beliefs
Haudenosaunee cosmology
Haudenosaunee mythology
Haudenosaunee oral tradition
Indigenous American history
Indigenous and Christian narratives
Indigenous and LDS connections
Indigenous perspectives on scripture
Indigenous prophecy
indigenous religious narratives
Indigenous sacred texts
Iroquois Confederacy stories
Iroquois epic narratives
Iroquois Great Peace
Iroquois history
Iroquois influence on Mormonism
Iroquois oral history
Joseph Smith and Native Americans
Joseph Smith and vision traditions
Latter-day Saint anthropology
Latter-day Saint scripture
LDS faith and native beliefs
LDS scripture analysis
Mormon history reexamined
Mormon-Indigenous relations
Mormonism and colonialism
Mormonism and Indigenous traditions
Mormonism and Indigenous voices
Native American Christianity
Native American prophets
Native perspectives on Joseph Smith
new research on Mormon origins
religious identity and history
religious studies monograph
religious syncretism
sacred texts and cultural exchange
seer stones and visions
Seneca prophet Handsome Lake
The Book of Mormon and Native history
unsettling scripture interpretation
Product details
- ISBN 9781647692629
- Weight: 626g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2026
- Publisher: University of Utah Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Argues that rather than an ancient text from the ancestors of living Indigenous people, the Book of Mormon is a nineteenth-century commentary about living Indigenous peoples of America told as if it were coming from the voices of the dead.
Thomas W Murphy is president of the Mormon Social Science Association and former chair of the anthropology department at Edmonds College.
