Proclamation to the People
Nineteenth-century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier
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Edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Reid L. Neilson
Foreword by R. Lanier Britsch
Available February 2008
408 pp., 6x9
Cloth $29.95
ISBN 978-0-87480-918-3
Mormon Studies
Seven years before leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) set foot in Utah Territory, they had already breached the Pacific basin by arriving in Australia by 1840.
Scholars have increasingly analyzed the Pacific world (the west coast of the U.S. and South America, the Pacific islands from Hawaii to Tahiti, and from Japan to New Zealand and Australia) as a distinctive region with a unified history. While religion has played an important role in this history, giving rise to a literature on Protestant and Catholic missions in the region, the study of the LDS Church’s expansion into the Pacific has remained largely outside of the bounds of non-LDS study. The Pacific basin has been a crucial part of LDS Church history for nearly the entire lifespan of Mormonism.
This volume brings the Pacific history of the LDS Church into focus in two ways. First, it explores the range and meanings of the church's settlement and movement. Second, it suggests contrasts, linkages, and parallels between LDS and other missionary activities.
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp is associate professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Reid L. Neilson is assistant professor of church history and doctrine, Brigham Young University.
“The volume as a whole is well thought out and is a good selection of the important articles on Mormons in the Pacific.”
—Greg Gubler, professor and university archivist emeritus, Brigham Young University, Hawaii
Contributors
Mark L. Grover, BYU
Matthew J. Grow, UND
Michael Lansing, Augsburg College
Peter Lineham, Massey University, New Zealand
Edward Leo Lyman, professor emeritus, Victor Valley College
Carol Cornwall Madsen, professor emeritus, BYU
Marjorie Newton, independent scholar
A.Delbert Palmer, late president of the LDS Chilean Mission
Tracey E. Panek, AAA of Northern California
Sandra C. Taylor, professor emerita, UofU
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