I had a blast talking about Race and the Making of the Mormon People with KUER's great Doug Frabrizio. This is a powerful time to be engaged in this work. But as I told Doug, and as I've said many times before, my work as a historian is circumscribed and limited. I look to the words and [...]
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“Become the Community You Want to Be”: An Open Letter to RELG 150
Here is the letter I delivered to my RELG 150 students today, the last day of class. Dear Students of “To Be Religious and Modern": First, thank you again for taking this journey with me these last few months. As our “temporary community” meets for the last time, I want to do some reflecting about [...]
Interview at Religion in American History: Race and the Making of the Mormon People
I had the great pleasure of speaking with Andrea L. Turpin at Religion in American History, about Race and the Making of the Mormon People. Here is a bit of it. AT: What led you to write Race and the Making of the Mormon People? MPM: I’ve shared a bit of my professional and confessional history elsewhere. Let [...]
Roundtable at JI (and My Response) on Race and the Making of the Mormon People
It was a great honor to have Juvenile Instructor do a roundtable on Race and the Making of the Mormon People. Below is the beginning of my response. Each of the roundtable’s comments/critiques focuses on one or both of two of the major interventions of my book: the first is to theorize “whiteness” and “race” more [...]
Interview at Reading Religion: Race and the Making of the Mormon People
I had the great pleasure of speaking to Reading Religion's Assistant Editor, Kirsten Boles at last year's AAR about Race and the Making of the Mormon People. Here's a taste! The Book of Mormon was published in 1830, a time in United States history replete with racial struggles and negotiations. In such an environment, this new “gospel [...]
Max Perry Mueller 