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 2025.
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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Rosemary Avance, Mediated Mormons: Shifting Religious Identities in the Digital Age, (Salt Lake City: University of Utah, 2025). |
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Matthew Breay Bolton, From Militarized Mission to Global Solidarity: The Life and Work of Missionary and Humanitarian Charles D. Neff, (Independence: John Whitmer Books, 2025). |
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Elise Boxer, Mormon Settler Colonialism: Inventing the Lamanite, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2025). |
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Brooke Kathleen Brassard, Thirsty Land into Springs of Water: Negotiating a Place in Canada as Latter-day Saints, (Ontario: University of Toronto Press, 2025). |
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Samuel D. Brunson, Between the Temple and the Tax Collector: The Intersection of Mormonism and the State, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025). |
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Brian Q. Cannon, Building a Global Zion: The Life and Vision of David O. McKay, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2025). |
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Jared Farmer, The Sound of Mormonism: A Media History of Latter-day Saints, (Logan: Utah State Special Collections, 2025). |
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Zachary McLeod Hutchins, Joseph: An Epic, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2025). |
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Andrew Kimball, The Blood in Their Veins: The Kimballs, Polygamy, and the Shaping of Mormonism, (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2025). |
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Ron Romig, Joseph Smith III: Peaceful Servant, (Independence: Herald Publishing House, 2025). |
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Jonathan Stapley, Holiness to the Lord: Latter-day Saint Temple Worship, (Oxford University Press, 2025). |
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John G. Turner, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2025). |
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