Criticism of Mormonism/Books

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Analysis of books critical of Mormonism

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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)
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  • 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)
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  • Loaded and prejudicial language—
    Brief Summary: An examination of how the author employs loaded and prejudicial language in this work (Click here for full article)
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  • 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)
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  • Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism — (Index of claims)
  • Inside Today's Mormonism (2007 re-issue of Becoming Gods)
• Will Bagley
  • Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows
• Fawn McKay Brodie
  • No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith — (Index of claims)
• Todd Compton
  • In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith
• Ed Decker
  • Decker's Complete Handbook on Mormonism
  • The God Makers (book)
  • The God Makers (film/cartoon)
• Sally Denton
  • American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows
• Dan Erickson
• Norman L. Geisler
  • The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
• Hurlbut-Howe affidavits
  • The Hurlbut affidavits
• Ronald V. Huggins
  • From Captain Kidd's Treasure Ghost to the Angel Moroni: Changing Dramatis Personae in Early Mormonism
• Jon Krakauer
  • Under the Banner of Heaven
• Charles Larson
  • By His Own Hand upon Papyrus: A New Look at the Joseph Smith Papyri
• "Dr." Walter Martin
  • The Kingdom of the Cults
• McKeever & Johnson
  • Mormonism 101
• Rodney L. Meldrum
  • DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography
  • Prophecies and Promises
  • ''Rediscovering the Book of Mormon Remnant through DNA
• Brent L. Metcalfe
  • Reinventing Lamanite Identity
• Christopher Nemelka
  • The "Book of Lehi"
• Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery
  • Mormon Enigma
• Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling
  • Mormon America: The Power and the Promise — (Index of claims)
• Grant Palmer
  • An Insider's View of Mormon Origins — (Index of claims)
• Bruce H. Porter
  • Prophecies and Promises
• B.H. Roberts
  • Studies of the Book of Mormon
• D. Michael Quinn
  • Early Mormonism and the Magic World View — (Index of claims)
  • "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904"
  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power
  • The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power — (Index of claims)
  • Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example — (Index of claims)
• George D. Smith
  • Nauvoo Polygamy — (Index of claims)
• Carol Whang Shutter
  • September Dawn (film)
• Simon G. Southerton
  • Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church — (Index of claims)
• Jerald and Sandra Tanner
  • Answering Mormon Scholars
  • Answering Mormon Scholars (Vol. 2)
  • Archaeology and the Book of Mormon
  • Covering Up the Black Hole
  • The Changing World of Mormonism — (Index of claims)
  • Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? — (Index of claims)