Jan Shipps

JAN SHIPPS is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and History at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis. She is generally regarded as the foremost non-Mormon scholar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her first book on the subject was Mormonism: The Story of a New Religious Tradition published by the University of Illinois Press. Recently, Illinois published her Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years Among the Mormons, in which she interweaves her own history of Mormon-watching with sixteen essays on Mormon history and culture.

Short Notices

Articles/Essays – Volume 03, No. 4

An “Inside-Outsider” in Zion

Articles/Essays – Volume 15, No. 1

At the invitation of Sunstone, I sat down a couple of years ago to write a book review of Samuel Woolley Taylor’s Rocky Mountain Empire. As did Topsy, that review just grew and grew until…

Spinning Gold: Mormonism and the Olympic Games

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 1

As in the lives of individuals, certain events in the lives of cities leave such a mark that time is thenceforth measured in terms of before and after. For example, following the Columbian Exposition that brought more than 27 million people to Chicago in 1893, that city would always be something more than “hog butcher to the world.” The dazzling Midway Plaisance, one of the fair’s high lights, soon disappeared. But an amazing stretch of parks and buildings along Chicago’s Lake Michigan waterfront continues to be a reminder that this Mid-western metropolis was once host to the world.