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Mauss, Armand L.

Shifting borders and a tattered passport : intellectual journeys of a Mormon academic / Armand L. Mauss ; foreword by Richard Bushman. - 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Not a boring life -- Earning the passport as a "defender of the faith" -- Touring academia in search of new realities -- Revisiting the Mormons: new perspectives encounter narrower boundaries -- Traveling back and forth with a new theory about Mormon history -- Recurrent visits with the race issue -- My journey with dialogue -- Bridging the chasm between academics and apologetics: the Claremont experiment -- Periodic passport checks with gatekeepers in the homeland -- Concluding apologia.

ISBN: 1607812258 9781607812258

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Subjects--Personal Names:
Mauss, Armand L.
Mauss, Armand L.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--History--20th century.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mormons--California--Biography.
Mormon Church--History--United States--20th century.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Religious.
RELIGION--Christianity--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BX8695.M333

Dewey Class. No.: 289.3092 B