Jeffrey C. Jacob

JEFFREY C. JACOB is associate professor, Department of Educational Policy and Administrative Studies.

Religious Tolerance: Mormons in the American Mainstream

The transformation of the Mormon Church from a radical nineteenth century socio-religious movement into a respectable denomination in the twentieth century raises sociological questions on whether or how distinctive Mormon elements can survive in our…

Explorations in Mormon Social Character Beyond the Liahona and Iron Rod

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 2

Richard Poll, hands clasped, leaned forward and strained to clarify, with labored sensitivity, two kinds of ideal-typical Mormons, the Iron Rod member and the Liahona Saint, whose characteristics he had recently detailed in a controversial…