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|subject=''American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows'' by Sally Denton | |||
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|link=Specific works/An Insider's View of Mormon Origins | |||
|subject=''An Insider's View of Mormon Origins'' by Grant Palmer | |||
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|link=Specific works/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri | |link=Specific works/By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri | ||
|subject=''By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri'' by Charles Larson | |subject=''By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri'' by Charles Larson | ||
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|link=Specific works/Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism | |||
|subject=''Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism'' by Ed Decker | |||
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|link=Specific works/In Sacred Loneliness | |||
|subject=''In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith'' by Todd Compton | |||
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|link=Specific works/Mormonism 101 | |||
|subject=''Mormonism 101'' by McKeever & Johnson | |||
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|link=Specific works/Mormon America: The Power and the Promise | |||
|subject=''Mormon America: The Power and the Promise'' by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling | |||
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|link=Specific works/The God Makers | |||
|subject=''The God Makers'' by Ed Decker | |||
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|link=Specific works/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) | |link=Specific works/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) | ||
|subject=The Kingdom of the Cults]]'' by "Dr." Walter Martin | |subject=The Kingdom of the Cults]]'' by "Dr." Walter Martin | ||
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**[[Specific works/ | **[[Specific works/Under the Banner of Heaven|''Under the Banner of Heaven'']] by Jon Krakauer | ||
* Hurlbut-Howe affidavits | * Hurlbut-Howe affidavits | ||
** [[Specific works/The Hurlbut affidavits|The Hurlbut affidavits]] | ** [[Specific works/The Hurlbut affidavits|The Hurlbut affidavits]] | ||
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** [[Specific works/From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism|''From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism'']] | ** [[Specific works/From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism|''From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism'']] | ||
**[[Specific works/The "Book of Lehi"|The "Book of Lehi"]] by [[Christopher Nemelka]] | **[[Specific works/The "Book of Lehi"|The "Book of Lehi"]] by [[Christopher Nemelka]] | ||
* Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery | * Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery | ||
** [[Specific works/Mormon Enigma|''Mormon Enigma'']] | ** [[Specific works/Mormon Enigma|''Mormon Enigma'']] | ||
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Analysis of books critical of Mormonism
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American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows by Sally Denton
An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer
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Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism by Richard Abanes
Summary: This book could best be described as an Evangelical apologetic work against Mormonism. The book spends much time refuting LDS interpretation of scriptural passages in the Bible, often claiming that Mormons have misinterpreted the scriptures and that they require "deeper study." In fact, it is claimed that LDS scholars have only a superficial knowledge of the scriptures, at one time stating that "[p]roperly interpreting them is not as simple as reading today's newspaper"Inside Today's Mormonism by Richard Abanes
Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows by Will Bagley
By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri by Charles Larson
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Mormonism 101 by McKeever & Johnson
Mormon America: The Power and the Promise by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
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No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn McKay Brodie
- Index of claims—
Brief Summary: A page-by-page response to critical claims made in this work (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗
- Index of claims—
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One Nation Under Gods by Richard Abanes
Summary: In early 2002 a new book entitled One Nation under Gods (ONUG) appeared on bookshelves, promising to tell the "real" history of the Mormon Church. The author attempts to pull disparate sources together to paint a picture that, when compared to objective reality, more closely resembles a Picasso than a Rembrandt—skewed and distorted—obscuring and maligning the actual doctrines and beliefs as understood and practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than 150 years.- Index of claims—
Brief Summary: A page-by-page response to critical claims made in this work (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Source analysis—
Brief Summary: An examination and response to how the author interprets the sources used to support this work (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Loaded and prejudicial language—
Brief Summary: An examination of how the author employs loaded and prejudicial language in this work in order to discredit Mormonism. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗ - Absurd claims—
Brief Summary: Some of the claims made in this work are simply absurd. We list and respond to those claims here. (Click here for full article)∗ ∗ ∗
- Index of claims—
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Reinventing Lamanite Identity by Brent L. Metcalfe
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The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Norman L. Geisler
The God Makers by Ed Decker
The Kingdom of the Cults by "Dr." Walter Martin]]
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- Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
- Hurlbut-Howe affidavits
- Ronald V. Huggins
- Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
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- B.H. Roberts
- D. Michael Quinn
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- "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904" by D. Michael Quinn
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn
- The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims) by D. Michael Quinn
- Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims) by D. Michael Quinn
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- Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims) by George D. Smith
- Carol Whang Shutter
- September Dawn (film)
- Simon G. Southerton
- Jerald and Sandra Tanner