Standing Apart

"Readers familiar with LDS theology will find each of the chapters in Standing Apart insightful and well researched. Scholars of early Christianity and Mormonism will likewise benefit from the academic treatment of this topic."--BYU Studies Quarterly "In my estimation, Standing Apart is the most important Mormon studies book since Bushman s Rough Stone Rolling...It deserves to be engaged by Mormons but will also be of interest to scholars of religion more broadly who value sensitive but critical interreligious engagement. I give Standing Apart my highest recommendation."--Blair Hodges, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship "No religion has more consistently defined itself against a religious 'other' than the Latter-day Saints. Now Mormon intellectuals are asking what a 'Great Apostasy' from early Christianity means in light of current historical scholarship and growing Mormon respect for other religions. This is one of the most significant books on Mormon thought in this generation and relevant to all religions who define themselves against a religious 'other'." --Richard Bushman, author of Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling "This collection is ambitious and wonderfully readable... it reveals just how dynamic, vibrant, and contested the Latter-day Saints' understanding of the past and of apostasy has been from the start." --Mormon Studies Review "Standing Apart: Mormon Historical Consciousness and the Concept of Apostasy is a useful contribution to historical theology, especially helpful to advanced students of American religious history."-Fides et Historia "The volume is both a work of Mormon historical theology and Mormon constructive theology."-- David Howlett, Nova Religio