Places of Decision: The Spatial and Metaphorical Geography of the Restoration

    To be held in the Omaha-Council Bluffs area, September 23-26, 2004.

    Proposals for papers are invited on a great variety of topics. Some examples might be:
• The spatial geography of the Reorganization from Plano, to Independence, to Lamoni and beyond
• The center and the periphery, metaphorically or literally
• The portability of the Kingdom of God
• Council Bluffs as the place where some Saints went west, some stayed put, and some went west and came back
• The discourse of place and how it is imbedded in the theology of the Restoration in general and the Community of Christ in particular
• The place of place in the intemationalizational of the Mormon movement.

    Proposals for papers with a comparative perspective will be especially welcome.

Jan Shipps, JWHA President-elect and 2004 Program Chair
shipps@iupui.edu

    Program Committee
Richard Bennett
Don Compier
John Hamer
Barbara Walden
Jan Shipps, Chair, shipps@iupui.edu

    Local Arrangements Committee
William Hartley
Ken Mulliken
Biloine Young
Lewis Weigand, Chair

    Send proposals to Jan Shipps at shipps@iupui.edu or to any member of the program committee.