Criticism of Mormonism/Books

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Analysis of books critical of Mormonism

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An Insider's View of Mormon Origins by Grant Palmer

• • Index of claims (Click here for full article)
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Becoming Gods: A Closer Look at 21st-Century Mormonism by Richard Abanes

Summary: This book could best be described as an Evangelical apologetic work against Mormonism. The book spends much time refuting LDS interpretation of scriptural passages in the Bible, often claiming that Mormons have misinterpreted the scriptures and that they require "deeper study." In fact, it is claimed that LDS scholars have only a superficial knowledge of the scriptures, at one time stating that "[p]roperly interpreting them is not as simple as reading today's newspaper"

• • Index of claims (Click here for full article)
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Early Mormonism and the Magic World View by D. Michael Quinn

• • Index of claims (Click here for full article)
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Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church by Simon G. Southerton

• • Index of claims (Click here for full article)
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Mormonism: Shadow or Reality? by Jerald and Sandra Tanner

• • Index of claims (Click here for full article)
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Mormonism Unvailed by Eber D. Howe

• • The Hurlbut affidavits—
    Brief Summary: Hurlbut-Howe affidavits (Click here for full article)
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Mormon America: The Power and the Promise by Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling

• • Index of claims (Click here for full article)
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Nauvoo Polygamyby George D. Smith

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No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith by Fawn McKay Brodie

• • 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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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 in order to discredit Mormonism. (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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Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn

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• • Studies of the Book of Mormon by B.H. Roberts—
    Brief Summary: This book is not written by a critic, but its purpose and audience are often misrepresented by critics in an effort to make it appear that Roberts lost his testimony of the Book of Mormon. (Click here for full article)
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The Changing World of Mormonism by Jerald and Sandra Tanner

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The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power by D. Michael Quinn

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    Brief Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power. (Click here for full article)
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The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power by D. Michael Quinn

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    Brief Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power. (Click here for full article)
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Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer

• • Index of claims—
    Brief Summary: Responses to specific critical or unsupported claims made in Under the Banner of Heaven. (Click here for full article)
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