Today researching one of the most well-traveled sources from the early American Southwest, I came across something amazing--a (potential) form of pre-Native literacy, or at least reference to it. Of course, this is key to my argument about Wakara and the Utes' sophisticated understanding and deployment of "archival" history, even if we Roman-script readers aren't [...]
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Advance Praise for Race and the Making of the Mormon People
I'm honored to receive this advance praise for Race and the Making of the Mormon People from two of the most celebrated scholars in Mormonism. "Max Perry Mueller’s brilliant analysis substantively enriches a growing body of excellent work on Mormonism and race. Mueller offers profound insight into both the tradition’s American sojourn and the nation’s wrenching [...]
Religion & Politics: Why I Went Back to Church.
At R&P, I wrote about my journey back to church, motivated by my daughter, my father, and Donald Trump. I was late to my own baptism. This past Easter Sunday, my two-year-old daughter and I were scheduled to be baptized at Grace Chapel, a Presbyterian church (PCA) in our adopted hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. Anxious to [...]
SLATE: “Not My Choir”
At Slate, I wrote about how, by agreeing to sing at Trump’s inauguration, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has enraged many Mormons and forced a reckoning over the LDS Church’s values. For much of 2016, Donald Trump’s bombast seemed to be breaking open an unprecedented fissure between the Mormons and the Republican Party that the mogul [...]
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