The JWHA book award committee is pleased to announce the following nominations for book awards. Readers of Restoration Studies scholarship have been enjoying a wealth of top books published in 2024.
Each year, the committee accepts nominations for books published during the previous calendar year. The committee selects award winners from these nominated materials, privileging work that is most relevant to Community of Christ history and values, regardless of the period examined. The following books have been nominated:
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Devery S. Anderson, Bruce R. McConkie: Apostle and Polemicist (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024). |
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Matthew Bowman, Joseph Fielding Smith: A Mormon Theologian (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024). |
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Cheryl L. Bruno, Secret Covenants: New Insights on Early Mormon Polygamy (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024). |
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Cheryl L. Bruno and John S. Dinger. Come up Hither to Zion: William Marks and the Mormon Concept of Gathering (Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2024). |
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Po Nien, Chou, Alisi Langi, and Petra Chou, Voices of Latter-Day Saint Women in the Pacific and Asia (RSC/BYU/Deseret Book Company, 2024). |
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Ignacio M. Garcia, Eduardo Balderas: Father of Church Translation, 1907-1989 (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024). |
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Alonzo L. Gaskill and Richard G. Moore, The Revised and Expanded Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith: Compared with the Earliest Known Manuscripts (Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2024). |
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Joseph W. Geisner, Writing Mormon History 2: Authors’ Stories Behind Their Works (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024). |
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David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones. Missionary Interests: Protestant and Mormon Missions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024). |
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Laurie Lee Hall, Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024) |
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Richard D. Hanks, To Be a Friend of Christ: The Life of Marion D. Hanks (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024). |
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Matthew L. Harris, Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2024). |
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Nathan B. Oman, Law And the Restoration: Law and Latter-day Saint History (Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2024) |
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Jason Palmer, Forever Familias: Race, Gender, and Indigeneity in Peruvian Mormonism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024). |
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Benjamin E. Park, American Zion: A New History of Mormonism (New York: Liveright, 2024). |
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Paul Reeve, Christopher B. Rich, and Lajean Purcell Carruth, This Abominable Slavery: Race, Religion, and the Battle Over Human Bondage in Antebellum Utah (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024). |
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Katie Ludlow Rich and Heather Sundahl. Fifty Years of Exponent II (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2024). |
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Brent M. Rogers, Buffalo Bill and the Mormons (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2024). |
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Cristina M. Rosetti, Joseph White Musser: A Mormon Fundamentalist (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024). |
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Erin E. Stiles, The Devil Sat on My Bed: Encounters with the Spirit World in Mormon Utah (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024). |
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Christine Talbot, Sonia Johnson: A Mormon Feminist (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024). |
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James A. Toronto and Kent F. Schull. Missionary in the Middle East: The Journals of Joseph Wilford Booth (RSC/BYU/Deseret Book Company, 2024). |
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Kyle R. Walker, Sister to the Prophet: The Life of Katharine Smith Salisbury (RSC/BYU/Deseret Book Company, 2024). |
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Nathaniel Wiewora, Sins of Christendom: Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Evangelicalism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024). |
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Fred E. Woods, Jay H. Buckley, and Hunter T. Hallows, The Life and Adventures of Eli Wiggill: South African 1820 Settler, Wesleyan Missionary, and Latter-day Saint (Draper, UT: Greg Kofford Books, 2024). |
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