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|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/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church | |||
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|link=Specific works/Mormonism 101 | |link=Specific works/Mormonism 101 | ||
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|subject=''Nauvoo Polygamy''by George D. Smith | |||
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**[[Specific works/Studies of the Book of Mormon|''Studies of the Book of Mormon'']] | |||
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|link=Specific works/ | |link=Specific works/The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism | ||
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|link=Specific works/ | |link=Specific works/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) | ||
|subject='' | |subject=The Kingdom of the Cults]]'' by "Dr." Walter Martin | ||
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**[[Specific works/Under the Banner of Heaven|''Under the Banner of Heaven'']] by Jon Krakauer | |||
* Hurlbut-Howe affidavits | |||
** [[Specific works/The Hurlbut affidavits|The Hurlbut affidavits]] | |||
* Ronald V. Huggins | |||
** [[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]] | |||
* Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery | |||
** [[Specific works/Mormon Enigma|''Mormon Enigma'']] | |||
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Revision as of 21:16, 12 February 2011
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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
Answering Mormon Scholars by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Answering Mormon Scholars (Vol. 2) by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Archaeology and the Book of Mormon by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
B
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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Covering Up the Black Hole by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
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Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism by Ed Decker
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Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn
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In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith by Todd Compton
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"LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904" by D. Michael Quinn
Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon G. Southerton
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Mormonism 101 by McKeever & Johnson
Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
Mormon America: The Power and the Promise by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
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Nauvoo Polygamyby George D. Smith
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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Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn
- B.H. Roberts
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The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner
The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism by Norman L. Geisler
The God Makers by Ed Decker
The Kingdom of the Cults by "Dr." Walter Martin]]
The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn
The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn
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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