Klaus J. Hansen
KLAUS J. HANSEN is a member of the history department of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he has taught the history of American thought and culture since 1968. Most recently, he is the author of works on the liberal tradition in America published in the journal of American History, and on de Tocqueville, in the Canadian Journal of History. He is at work on a revised edition of Quest for Empire: The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History (1967; rev. ed., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, forthcoming), in which he applies current theoretical literature on nationalism to the idea of the Mormon kingdom. His Mormonism and the American Experience (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981) appeared in the Chicago HISTORY OF AMERICAN RELIGION series edited by Martin Marty.